The ESG Status of Swedish Private Equity 2023
Mean FTE employment growth among SVCA member portfolio companies reached 21% in 2022, up from 9% in FY 2020.
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Mean FTE employment growth among SVCA member portfolio companies reached 21% in 2022, up from 9% in FY 2020.
In the 2022 survey, 34 per cent of respondents stated they paid with cash in the past month, down from 50 per cent in spring 2020.
Preliminary H1 2022 fundraising figures for Europe reached €64.5bn, close to the H1 2021 record figure of €66.0bn.
Total private equity investments permanently increase Swedish GDP by 3.5%-4.7%.
A total of 60 PE backed IPOs occurred from the 10 th of December 2013 until the 6th of July 2022 and were analyzed in the study.
SVCA member portfolio companies achieved a mean full-time equivalent (FTE) employment growth of 9% in 2020/2019 compared to 5% for all listed firms on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm.
Private equity backed portfolio companies created 173,124 net jobs in 2018, achieving an employment growth rate of 5.5%.
European VC-backed companies raised $7.9B across 804 deals in Q4'19.
According to Copenhagen Economics analysis, Swedish GDP is currently 0.8% higher than it would otherwise be due to venture capital.
The Swedish venture capital market represents 35% of total Nordic exit value and over SEK 35 billion in assets under management.
Venture capital (VC) funds invest in only around 0.2% of new U.S. businesses, yet 43% of U.S. public listed companies founded between 1979 and 2013 were VC-backed.
Six out of ten respondents used the mobile payment service Swish during the past month in 2018, compared to around 10 per cent in 2014.
The long-term annual tax revenue expected from the proposal is overestimated by approximately SEK 160 million because it relies on a period of unusually high equity returns.
Skatteverket estimated that the proposed exit tax would increase annual Swedish tax revenues by around 1 billion kronor starting 1 January 2020.
Stockholm attracted 18% of all European Fintech investments in 2014 and 16% over an 11-year period.
The Business Support Services Group brings together SME support agencies operating across 4 countries on 2 continents.
In 2014, total invested equity in Swedish companies reached 8 100 billion SEK, with foreign owners accounting for 50 percent of the total.