{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private Markets","title":"EQT's Christian Sinding - \"Why not\" Europe and building the €1 trillion company","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3160,"description":"Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.\nToday’s podcast takes us to Oslo, Norway, for a very special conversation with Christian Sinding, the former CEO of one of the industry’s leading alternative asset managers, EQT.\nChristian’s hometown of Oslo provided an ideal setting to showcase both the Nordic heritage that represents EQT’s DNA and the global ambitions of the firm (and one of its portfolio companies, 1X) that is looking to fund Europe’s first €1T company. \nChristian has been one of the leaders in the alternative asset management industry. He was most recently the CEO of EQT, where he steered the firm on an impressive growth path as a public company and helped scale the firm to almost €300B AUM. \nHe’s now focused on another ambitious project: the Scaleup Europe Fund, a fund that EQT is managing and has support from the European Commission to invest in Europe’s most promising technology companies. \nWith 1X Tech’s NEO humanoid robot joining us for part of the discussion, Christian and I had a fascinating conversation about the past, present, and future of alternative asset management and Europe’s technology ecosystem. Christian and I discussed:\nThe evolution of EQT and alternative asset management.\nWhat Europe needs in order to fund the future.\nHow Europe can harmonize its capital markets infrastructure.\nWhat it will take to create the €1T company.\nWhat it means for companies to have global ambition.\nThe what, why, and how behind EQT’s Scaleup Europe Fund.\nWhy EQT’s Scaleup Europe Fund invested in ICEYE and Lovable.\nWhy EQT invested in 1X.\nHow Christian’s “why not” attitude can take Europe’s technology ecosystem to the next level.\nCome for the conversation with Christian, stay until the end to meet NEO.\nBio\nChristian Sinding is an Institutional Partner at EQT with nearly 30 years of experience at the firm. He served as CEO and Managing Partner from 2019 to May 2025, during which EQT quadrupled in size, becoming the fourth-largest company listed on...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/AFAZ1vkAT92lFJtqt-r0HeFQ55KTdcbJHmgKXaMlAtY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE5MDA4LzE2MTQ1/Mzk1MDUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}