Grant criteria
Supporting the impact investing ecosystem
Pushing open-source impact projects
EQT Foundation donates to projects that open-source support the impact investing environment. This can be through creating new financial models to take into account impact, or for example also to build new infrastructure for carbon calculations that all start-ups can use.
Disruptiveness
EQT Foundation is pushing the frontiers of impact
EQT Foundation focuses on models that take unseen approaches to impact. Creating a new impact economy necessitates projects to take innovative and strong bets.
Implementable
EQT Foundation is taking a practical stance
EQT Foundation donates to organizations that create practical tools for the future and lay the ground for others to tread.
EQT Additionality
EQT Foundation offers non-financial support
EQT Foundation favors donations to projects to which EQT Foundation and the EQT ecosystem can be a resource for better development, by for example, doing pilots with portfolio companies or trying out new impact accounting standards at EQT level.
Latest
EQT Foundation announces EUR 100,000 grant to founder of Norbite to support upcycling plastic waste into healthy feed and food solutions
EQT Foundation invests in Noya - accelerating the transition to carbon negativity by capturing CO2 with Direct Air Capture technology
Impact companies to keep an eye on in 2023
New investment in Vara - making data-driven breast cancer screening accessible to those who need it most
EQT Foundation announces $1.5 M grant to the GIIN Impact Lab