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EQT Foundation
Backing Researchers and Entrepreneurs
The EQT Foundation supports entrepreneurs, researchers, and non-profits to build a regenerative and more inclusive tomorrow. Founded by Partners at EQT, the foundation exists to push the frontiers of impact, empower the entire EQT ecosystem to give back to society in meaningful ways, and safeguard the EQT Values.
EQT Foundation is an Impact-First Investor and Incubator
The EQT Foundation supports entrepreneurs, researchers, and non-profits to build a regenerative and more inclusive tomorrow.
When EQT’s core group of partners founded the EQT Foundation, the ambition and motive was clear: to act as an eternal steward of the culture and values of EQT – the very reason why they decided to join the firm in the first place.
The EQT Foundation is a long-term shareholder in EQT and uses dividends and donations to support entrepreneurs, researchers and non-profit organizations. Cultural safe-guarding is about transferring knowledge, behavior and attitude – acting, and leading according to the core values, and promoting great cultural ambassadors across the firm. The EQT Foundation acts as a guardian of EQT’s values through its long-term ownership and governance model, but also strengthens the position of the values in our culture through its activities and contributions to society.
Our Programs
Combining catalytic capital with expertise from EQT.
Breakthrough Science
Many scientific breakthroughs fail to reach commercialization due to early-stage funding gaps. Our EQT Foundation-funded grants address this by supporting researchers before company formation, while technologies are still being validated in the lab.
Breakthrough Startups
Our investment arm, the EQT Foundation Fund, makes catalytic investments in impact-driven startups, supporting entrepreneurs from lab stage to first commercial demonstration. We invest flexibly and strategically, with a long-term approach and the ability to join through various structures, including bridge rounds.
Breakthrough Finance
Our breakthrough finance grants support individuals and organizations improving access to financing for early-stage impact entrepreneurs. We focus on closing the capital gap for scientific founders seeking project funding for their first commercial installations.
Open call for applications: Rare Diseases
Are you developing bold science to transform how we diagnose, treat, or manage rare diseases? EQT Foundation is seeking to award €25,000 to €100,000 in catalytic grant funding to research projects with innovative, translational approaches that have the potential for outsized patient outcomes in this space.
We’re looking for scientists and researchers with entrepreneurial potential who are developing solutions that can move from lab to market - addressing specific and urgent unmet needs within rare diseases, while advancing the frontiers of science and medicine globally.
Deadline October 1st 2025, 11:59pm CET
Supporting Progress Around the Globe
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Investments
“Our informal KPI is the pursuit of ‘collective goosebumps’. It’s that spark of possibility when we see how an innovation could connect with the EQT platform, how the right expertise, capital or network could accelerate its path to impact”
Cilia Holmes IndahlHead of EQT Foundation
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