EQT Ventures

Company

Investment-firm

Last deal

$60.5M

Amount

Undisclosed

Stage

01.10.2020

Date

1

all rounds

$60.5M

Total amount

Financing round

General

About Company
EQT Ventures is a European VC fund that provides support and advice to bold and ambitious founders.

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founded date

01.01.2016

Number of employees

Last funding type

Undisclosed

IPO status

Private

Description

The company, which has raised over €1.2 billion in total capital, launched its first fund in 2016 with a commitment of €566 million and a mission to be the kind of VC the team would have liked to have had on their own startup journeys. EQT Ventures has a data-driven approach to investing and is powered by Motherbrain, an in-house-developed AI platform that has driven more than $100 million in portfolio company investments. The company's team is made up of experts from successful companies such as Booking.com, King, Spotify, and Hotels.com, and they are based across six offices in Europe and the US. EQT Ventures seeks to invest in information technology and SaaS sectors across Europe and the United States, and its operational experts are on hand to advise and support ambitious founders on their journeys to building global winners.
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Their latest funding was raised on 01.10.2020. Their latest round Undisclosed

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01.10.2020
$60.5M
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Kees Koolen is a Senior Advisor to EQT Ventures and a recognised expert in building companies to a global scale. Prior to starting EQT Ventures, Kees spent a number of years building Booking.com into a successful global company. Kees was an early investor in Booking.com and then joined the company as COO in 2001. This was a position he held for seven years, during which time it was acquired by Priceline (Nasdaq: PCLN). He later became CEO of Booking.com and then its Chairman. Kees holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Fontys Hogescholen in the Netherlands.

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Board Member at MAJORITY.

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Gregory Bernstein

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Anton Ask Åström

Analytics Lead

Sandra Malmberg

Sandra Malmberg

Venture Lead

Naza Metghalchi

Naza Metghalchi

Venture Lead

Victoria Mills-Saunders

Team Coordinator

Joao Beraldo

Joao Beraldo

Marketing associate

Antoine Moyroud

Antoine Moyroud

Venture analyst

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