Stockholm has become one of Europe’s most attractive hubs for private equity, combining strong financial infrastructure with a steady flow of high-quality investment opportunities. The city benefits from Sweden’s reputation for transparency, corporate governance, and innovation, creating an environment where investors can partner confidently with growth-oriented companies. With a highly educated workforce and a culture of entrepreneurship, Stockholm continues to generate mid-market and technology-driven businesses that are well-suited for private equity investment. Concurrently, the city’s focus on sustainability and digitalization makes it a natural home for firms seeking to align financial returns with long-term value creation.
1. Nordic Capital
Overview: Nordic Capital is a leading private equity investor that develops companies in close partnership with owners and management teams. The firm emphasizes building strong, sustainable businesses that shape their industries and operates with offices across several geographies including Copenhagen, London, and New York.
Focus: Nordic Capital invests in healthcare, technology and payments, financial services, and services and industrial technology. It takes an active ownership approach, deploying operational expertise, capital, and business acumen to drive growth and transformation. The firm integrates sustainability across its strategy, with explicit attention to diversity, inclusion, climate, and governance, and while rooted in the Nordics it invests internationally in businesses with transformational potential.
2. Amplio Private Equity
Overview: Amplio Private Equity is a Swedish firm established in 2024 by the team formerly operating as Segulah. It specializes in the Nordic lower mid-market and applies a repeatable value creation model in collaboration with entrepreneurs, management, and industrial experts.
Focus: Amplio targets business services and IT and technology services within the B2B domain, typically investing in companies with enterprise values between SEK 100 and 500 million (USD 9–46 million). It generally pursues control investments and often acts as the first institutional owner, partnering with founders and management while allowing entrepreneurs to reinvest as minority shareholders. The firm emphasizes buy-and-build strategies, having completed more than 80 add-on acquisitions across the Nordics, and incorporates sustainability through its article 8 fund classification with thematic priorities in sustainable solutions, digital business efficiency, and smart urbanisation.
3. Altor Equity Partners
Overview: Altor Equity Partners is a Scandinavian-based private equity firm that positions itself as a challenger and change maker, partnering with companies to support growth and transformation. The firm invests across a wide range of industries, with portfolio companies spanning consumer brands, industrial businesses, and technology ventures.
Focus: Altor typically invests in growth-stage companies of varying scale, from smaller enterprises with revenues under €50 million (USD 54 million) to much larger businesses with turnovers in the hundreds of millions. It practices an active ownership model, working closely with management teams to scale operations and build long-term sustainable value. Altor incorporates sustainability into its investment philosophy, emphasizing decarbonization, circular economy initiatives, and responsible business practices. While it maintains strong Nordic roots, the firm’s portfolio has a broader European scope.
4. Cubera Private Equity
Overview: Cubera is a Nordic private equity fund-of-funds manager headquartered in Oslo with an additional office in Stockholm. The firm manages several billion euros in assets and has built a strong position as one of the leading independent fund investors in the Nordic region. Its team focuses on providing institutional investors access to diversified exposure across private equity through a structured program of fund investments.
Focus: Cubera invests through secondary acquisitions of shares in Nordic buyout funds, primary commitments to both Nordic and international buyout funds, and impact-oriented investment programs. Its strategy emphasizes diversification, access to top-tier managers, and efficient allocation across geographies rather than direct control of operating companies.
5. Summa Equity
Overview: Summa Equity is a thematic private equity firm founded in Stockholm that invests across Northern Europe. It positions itself as a pioneer in connecting private equity with solutions to global challenges, emphasizing that long-term financial returns and positive societal impact go hand in hand. Summa works as an active partner with entrepreneurs and management teams to co-create sustainable, resilient businesses.
Focus: Summa structures its investment activity around themes including circularity, sustainable food, energy transition, and technology-enabled resilience. Its approach integrates ESG and impact at every stage, from screening and due diligence to value creation, and targets companies whose business models are inherently linked to solving environmental or social issues.
6. MVI Advisors
Overview: MVI Advisors is a Stockholm-based private equity firm with a focus on the Nordic lower mid-market. Originally established as a network of private investors, it has developed into a professional investment firm specializing in supporting small and medium-sized companies. MVI partners closely with founders and management to accelerate growth and professionalize operations.
Focus: MVI invests in profitable, asset-light, founder-led companies with strong buy-and-build potential. Its themes include digitalization, circular business models, and structural changes in society such as urbanization and demographic shifts. The firm typically seeks majority or significant ownership stakes, applying a hands-on approach to drive transformation and expansion.
7. Verdane Fund Manager AB
Overview: Verdane is a specialist growth equity investor partnering with tech-enabled and sustainable companies in Europe. The firm positions itself as growth experts that provide hands-on support based on entrepreneurial and operational experience. Verdane operates across several European markets with local teams and an in-house operational support unit known as “Elevate.”
Focus: Verdane invests behind structural megatrends such as digitalisation and decarbonisation, backing companies positioned for a sustainable future. It can take either majority or minority stakes in individual companies or in portfolios, deploying equity in the range of roughly €20 million to over €150 million (USD 21–162 million). The firm supports portfolio growth through operational enhancements, data, technology, talent, and sustainability initiatives.
8. Trill Impact
Overview: Trill Impact is an “Impact House” exclusively focused on impact investments. It seeks to align positive social and environmental outcomes with financial returns. The firm’s team spans Europe and North America, and it engages across private equity, venture, and microfinance segments.
Focus: Trill Impact invests in businesses that have measurable impact potential, particularly where that impact addresses critical environmental or social challenges, often linked to the Sustainable Development Goals. It applies a structured investment lifecycle integrating impact metrics alongside value creation plans, and aims for both returns and lasting positive change.
9. Accent Equity
Overview: Accent Equity is one of the buyout investment pioneers in the Nordic region. Since its founding in 1994, the firm has built a consistent track record through more than ninety platform investments and over 150 add-on transactions. Based in Stockholm, it focuses on private mid-market companies and emphasizes teamwork, professionalism, and long-term orientation.
Focus: Accent Equity invests in and develops Nordic companies where a new owner can serve as a catalyst for growth and transformation. Its ambition is to build businesses into Nordic, European, or global leaders by applying hands-on ownership and driving sustainable operational and strategic improvements that generate superior returns.
10. Pophouse Entertainment
Overview: Pophouse Entertainment is a Swedish entertainment investment and development company that specializes in music catalogue acquisitions and brand building within the entertainment sector. Its acquired catalogues include globally recognized names such as Avicii, Swedish House Mafia, Cyndi Lauper, and KISS. The company has also created high-profile ventures like ABBA Voyage, demonstrating its ability to combine creative and commercial success.
Focus: Pophouse invests in and develops brands within entertainment, adding value through artist-centric concept development and close collaboration with artists and estates. Its model combines music rights with branding and creative opportunities to safeguard artistic legacies while maximizing both artistic and financial potential. Pophouse seeks to redefine entertainment by embracing technology, creating immersive fan experiences, and ensuring its investments generate long-term value for both artists and investors.
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