EQT Ventures T Ventures is a multi-stage €566m VC fund fuelled by some of the world’s most obsessive company builders & scalers from success stories EQ like Booking.com, King, Spotify & Hotels.com. Operational experts are on hand to advise & support ambitious founders.
Founded: 2016
http://www.eqtventures.com See More at NOAH Connect SPEAKER INFORMATION KEY CORPORATE FACTS Headquarters Stockholm, Sweden Johan Svanstrom Other Offices London, United Kingdom Partner Berlin, Germany San Francisco, United States Amsterdam, Netherlands Luxembourg, Luxembourg Employees 26-50 PRESENTATION TOPIC Investment VC Stage Fireside chat with Miki Kuusi, co-founder and CEO at Wolt Current Fund €m 566 Size SHORT BIOGRAPHY Total AUM €m 566 Investment Style Active Johan is Partner at EQT Ventures where he advises our portfolio companies on expanding and scaling globally - areas that Johan has a wealth of experience in. He’s TARGET INVESTMENT CRITERIA currently serving on the board of portfolio company Wolt and Epidemic Sound, an EQT Mid Market Europe portfolio company. Geographies Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden Prior to his role at EQT Ventures, Johan was President of Hotels.com and a member of the global management team of its parent, Expedia Group Inc for five years. In Verticals Revolutionary Consumer Products, Cognitive Computing, Digital Health, Mobility & Travel of the Future, Edutech, Fintech his role at Hotels.com, Johan led the innovation, strategic development and growth & Insurtech, Ecommerce, Marketplaces & Classifieds, B2B Software & Services, Industrial Digitisation of the brand - operating in more than 70 countries. Johan was also President of Industries PaaS, Engineering, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Human Resources, Accommodation, Accounting, Advertising, Expedia Affiliate Network, the B2B partner division of Expedia Group, for more than Analytics, Apps, Artificial Intelligence / AI, Augmented Reality, Automation, B2B, B2C, Banking, Big Data, Business three years. Before this, Johan spent eight years with Expedia in Asia-Pacific as a Insurance, Casual Gaming, Cloud, Cloud Services, Collaboration, Construction, Customer Intelligence, Cyber Security, Data, Digital Health, Digitalisation, Direct-to-Consumer, E-Commerce, EduTech, Electro-Mobility, FinTech, Food Delivery, Managing Director, launching and growing several of the company’s divisions into… Gaming, Gaming Platforms, Healthcare / Pharma, InsurTech, Internet of Things / IoT, Mobile, Mobile App Development, READ MORE Mobile Gaming, Remote Access / Screen Sharing, Security, Social Gaming, Transportation, Venture Capital, Virtual Reality, Wearables, Mobility, SaaS INTERNET PORTFOLIO HIGHTLIGHTS Transaction Venture Capital Structures BUSINESS OVERVIEW EQT Ventures is a multi-stage €566m VC fund fuelled by some of the world’s most obsessive company builders, engineers, designers, marketers, data scientists and scaling experts from success stories such as Booking.com, King, Spotify, Huddle and Hotels.com. Recognising that building NOAH LONDON SPEAKER BOOK 92 a global success story takes more than just capital, EQT Ventures' operational experts are on hand to advise and support ambitious founders on their journeys to building global winners. Launched in May 2016 with the mission of being the kind of VC the team would have wanted on their start-up journeys, EQT Ventures had its first exit just two and a half years later with Small Giant Games. In December, 2018, the Helsinki-based mobile game studio entered into an agreement to be acquired by Zynga (Nasdaq: ZNGA) in a deal worth $700m. A different kind of VC, EQT Ventures has built a proprietary AI platform - Motherbrain - in-house to help the team source and prioritise deals. So… READ MORE