The economic footprint of Swedish Venture Capital and Private Equity

Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) provide unique ways of developing and scaling high-potential companies. They bring capital to high-risk companies and deploy active ownership, thereby helping to scale up innovative ideas in the start-up phase and bringing them to the market in the later growth phase of a company.

The Swedish Private Equity market is the second largest in Europe compared to the size of the economy, with Stockholm acting as a hub for risk capital. PE and VC thereby contribute significantly to the Swedish economy.

In a new report commissioned by the Swedish Private Equity & Venture Capital Association we find:

• Significant productivity increases in PE-owned portfolio companies; up to 22% during the period of ownership.
• PE and VC combined permanently increase Swedish GDP by 3.5-4.7% through direct and indirect effects (via economic spill-over effects).
• Sweden is the second largest European exporter of PE funding, making Stockholm a PE hub supporting high-potential companies in the Nordics and beyond.