Overview
EQT Ventures is the venture capital arm of EQT AB, a Swedish global investment organization. Founded in 2016, it manages three funds totaling over €2.3B and makes minority equity investments in European and US technology companies. Notable physical-AI portfolio investments include 1X (humanoid robots), Einride (autonomous electric trucks), Wandelbots (robotic software), and Standard AI (retail computer vision).
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Parent
AUM
Fund I
Fund II
Fund III
Founder
Notable investments
Data & sources
Web sources
3
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Partnerships
Every company EQT Ventures has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 11X Technologies1× joint6 total
- 21X Technologies1× joint1 total
- 3Nistad Group1× joint1 total
- 4Samsung Electronics1× joint8 total
Most recent
- 1X x EQT Humanoid Deployment2025-12-11with 1X Technologiesjust announced
- 1X Technologies Series B (2024)2024-01-12with 1X Technologiesoperating
Relationships
Current leadership (4)
- Hjalmar Winbladh Founding PartnerSEC-verified
- Kees Koolen Founding PartnerSEC-verified
- Lars Jörnow Founding PartnerSEC-verified
- Per Franzén Partner & Head of EQT VenturesSEC-verified
Founders (3)
- Hjalmar Winbladhno longer at company
previously at Neko Health
- Kees Koolenno longer at company
- Lars Jörnowno longer at company
Safety record
No incidents on record for EQT Ventures.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
EQT Ventures in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
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Partnerships
2 total · 1 operating · 1 just announced
Every company EQT Ventures has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- 1X x EQT Humanoid Deployment2025-12-11with 1X Technologiesjust announced
- 1X Technologies Series B (2024)2024-01-12with 1X Technologiesoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 11X Technologies1× joint6 total
- 21X Technologies1× joint1 total
- 3Nistad Group1× joint1 total
- 4Samsung Electronics1× joint8 total
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- investment2024-01-12operating
- deployment2025-12-11announcedjust announced
Timeline
Every recorded move in EQT Ventures’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Partnership1X x EQT Humanoid Deployment
2025-12-11EQT Ventures portfolio company 1X announced a strategic partnership with EQT to make up to 10,000 NEO humanoid robots available across EQT's global portfolio companies. Each robot costs 0,000 or can be leased monthly, and is capable of performing autonomous tasks in industries facing labor shortages.
Partnership1X Technologies Series B (2024)
2024-01-121X Technologies raised a $100 million Series B (announced January 2024), led by EQT Ventures with participation from Samsung NEXT and Nistad Group, to develop its NEO bipedal home humanoid.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 25, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (3)
- https://eqtventures.com/
- EQT Ventures - Wikipedia · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EQT_Ventures
- EQT Ventures - EQT Group · https://eqtgroup.com/en/private-capital/eqt-ventures
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-05
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-05
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- knowledge-base
- Knowledge base
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Methodology surface for EQT Ventures.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning EQT Ventures from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Autonomous-Truck Company Einride to Begin Trading on Nasdaq - WSJ
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EQT Plans to Roll Existing Venture Capital Stakes Into New Fund
EQT AB plans to move five to ten investments from EQT Ventures I into a new continuation vehicle amid expansion of the secondary market for startup stakes.
Private equity giant EQT discusses its humanoid robot rollout - Axios
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Private equity giant EQT discusses its humanoid robot rollout
EQT plans to deploy 1X humanoid robots across its portfolio companies, exploring how robotics can support operations in industries facing labor shortages.
1X partners with EQT to roll out humanoids across its portfolio companies - The Robot Report
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The Maker of the $20K Neo Robot Has a Deal for 10,000 of Its Humanoids - CNET
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1X Announces Strategic Partnership to Make up to 10,000 Humanoid Robots Available to EQT’s Global Portfolio - AI Insider
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European firm 1X to deploy 10,000 'home' humanoid robots in factories - Interesting Engineering
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EQT partners with 1X to roll out up to 10,000 humanoid robots across global portfolio - Private Equity Insights
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1X Forms Strategic Partnership With EQT To Enable Large Scale Deployment Of Humanoid Robots - Pulse 2.0
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1X struck a deal to send its ‘home’ humanoids to factories and warehouses - TechCrunch
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1X Announces Strategic Partnership to Make up to 10000 Humanoid Robots Available to EQTs Global Portfolio
EQT Ventures portfolio company 1X partners with EQT to deploy up to 10,000 NEO humanoid robots across EQT's global portfolio companies.
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Heat Index
Serious54/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place EQT Ventures against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 3, 2026