EQT Ventures

EQT Ventures is the early-stage venture arm of investment group EQT, working with founders it describes as building generation-defining companies. It acts as an early-stage lead investor and operational adviser rather than a purely financial backer, aiming to support ambitious visions with the potential to shape the coming decade. Its team is made up of former founders and operators, and the firm is domiciled in Luxembourg with investment advisors based in Stockholm, Paris, London, New York, Berlin and Amsterdam. It focuses on European companies and has backed more than one hundred and forty founding teams to date, including Sana Labs, which builds AI-based knowledge tools, humanoid robotics company 1X, payments infrastructure firm Payrails, conversational AI company Parloa, and space exploration business The Exploration Company.