Is the EIF Becoming Europe’s Bridge to Private Capital?

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Jean-Christophe Laloux’s appointment may signal a new phase for the European Investment Fund: moving beyond filling individual financing gaps towards creating the structures, incentives and partnerships through which private capital becomes willing to carry European strategic risk.

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EQT Has 1,000 Companies in Sight. Can Europe Give Them a Market?

Thursday, August 20, 2026

EQT has identified more than 1,000 potential targets for the Scaleup Europe Fund. The deeper question is what happens next: whether Europe’s exchanges, institutional investors and regulators are ready when today’s scale-ups become tomorrow’s multibillion-euro public companies.

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The Scale-Up Gap

Sunday, July 5, 2026

Europe has never lacked innovation. Its challenge has been transforming research excellence into global companies that remain rooted in Europe. The scale-up gap raises a deeper question: can Europe build the capital architecture needed to turn innovation into ownership, influence and long-term sovereignty?

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