Late on Monday afternoon, partners at Swedish investment firm EQT were notified barely four minutes before the news was out: it had won the coveted mandate to manage the European Commission’s €5bn Scaleup Europe Fund.
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Anne Sraders is a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covers the VC industry and deeptech startups. She also writes Sifted's weekly VC newsletter Up Round. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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