How many investments has Summa Equity made?

Summa Equity has 8 tracked investments.

What stage does Summa Equity invest at?

Summa Equity invests at the Series B, Series C, Growth, Late Stage stages.

Where is Summa Equity located?

Summa Equity is headquartered in Stockholm, SE.

Who does Summa Equity co-invest with?

Summa Equity most often shares deals with Alliance VC, Alliance Venture, CNI, among 4 tracked co-investors.

Summa Equity

Private equityoperating company · company profile

Stockholm · Series B–Late Stage · 6 people tracked

Also known as Summa Corp.

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Investment thesis

Summa Equity invests in companies that help solve global challenges, viewing such businesses as resilient — performing well in stable markets and often seeing increased demand during periods of crisis. The firm concentrates on industries supported by megatrends organized around four themes: Circularity (a path to sustainability), Sustainable Food (feeding the future), Energy Transition (powering a greener future), and Tech-Enabled Resilience (building robustness to navigate digitization). Summa actively seeks innovative organizations tackling global challenges and creating positive, sustainable impact, and welcomes contact from like-minded founders and companies.

Invests inAgTech Circular Economy Cleantech Climate Tech E-commerce Energy FoodTech Impact & Social GoodSector AgnosticEurope Global Stockholm

Source: firm website, verified Sep 22, 2026.

Stage

Series B–Late Stage

Stockholm, SE

Instruments

Equity

Founded

2016

AUM

$4.4B

Tracked investments

Team · 6 people

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Hannah Gunvor Jacobsen· Partner, COO and Head of Investor Relationsin

Partner, COO and Head of Investor Relations at Summa Equity and a board member of NG Nordic.

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Stephanie Caspar· Partner, Head of Portfolio & Via Summa· Germanyin

Partner at Summa Equity leading the Portfolio and Via Summa active ownership team, which supports portfolio companies with leadership development and value creation.

Carine Beer· Chief People Officer to Via Summa· Greater Munich Metropolitan Areain

Chief People Officer for Via Summa, involved in leadership development for Summa's portfolio companies.

Caroline Dehlimarken· Senior Manager, Via Summa· Oslo, Oslo, Norwayin

Senior Manager on the Via Summa team supporting Summa Equity's portfolio companies.

Kees Kruythoff· Thematic Chair Sustainable Foods· Utrecht Areain

Kees Kruythoff is a business executive with 27 years at Unilever, where he served as President of North America and President of the Global Home Care division as a member of the global executive team. Following his departure from Unilever in 2019, he co-founded IMAGINE.one, a for-benefit organization focused on climate and inequality, and served as chairman and CEO of LIVEKINDLY Collective, a plant-based food company comprising multiple brands. He currently serves as Thematic Chair for Sustainable Foods at Summa Equity, invests in food technology startups through Nicoya and Bain Capital, and holds board positions including chairman of MrGreenAfrica and board member of RCL Foods.

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Kenneth J. Braithwaite· Senior Advisor at Summa Equity· Pennsylvaniain

Former U.S. Secretary of the Navy (2020-2021) and U.S. Ambassador to Norway, a retired Rear Admiral and Naval Aviator who now advises defense and PE organizations and serves on boards including Atom Computing.

Founder mafia

5 people who came through Summa Equity went on to found or lead other companies.

Jenny KeisuPartner and CEO (part of founding team)Founded Longbow +1 Jennifer Lee KossAdvisorFounded Springbank Collective Caroline DehlimarkenSenior Manager, Via SummaFounded Nordea Michael SakowskiPrivate Equity InternFounded Crunched Seth GoldsteinVice PresidentFounded Ancientcrunch

What they invest in

from 8 of 8 portfolio companies

Circular Economy ×3Cleantech ×3Climate Tech ×3Healthtech ×2Impact & Social Good ×2IoT ×2SaaS ×2AI & Machine Learning ×1

HQs:Norway×3Sweden×2United Kingdom×1United States×1

Investments · 8 tracked

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NG Nordicngnordic.com in✓ verified

NG Nordic is a Nordic circular economy and waste management company that transforms waste into valuable resources and removes hazardous substances from circulation.

Circular EconomyCleantechClimate TechStockholm, SE

Trine-Marie Hagen(CFO)in

Norsk Gjenvinningnorskgjenvinning.no

Norsk Gjenvinning is a circular economy and waste management company that offers waste collection, recycling, and resource recovery services along with digital solutions for customer management and waste reporting.

Circular EconomyImpact & Social GoodOslo, NO

Co-investorsAltor PFC Family Office

Odaoda.comDec 2022

Oda is an online grocery retailer offering a range of food and household products for delivery in Norway.

ConsumerE-commerceFoodTechRetail TechOslo, NO

Co-investorsAlliance VC Alliance Venture CNI Skyfall Ventures Kinnevik SoftBank Group +1 more

Peoplesafepeoplesafe.co.uk in 𝕏

Peoplesafe provides lone-worker safety software and alarm receiving services, serving organizations across various sectors including enterprise, SMEs, and public sector customers.

Enterprise SoftwareHealthtechHR TechIoTSaaSUK, GB

Naz Dossa(Chief Executive Officer)

BoardGöran Lindö(Chairman)

Co-investorsECI Partners

Summa Foundationsummafoundation.se

The Summa Foundation is an independent charitable foundation that uses catalytic grants and recoverable impact investments to de-risk and scale early-stage solutions to social and environmental challenges.

Circular EconomyClimate TechImpact & Social Good

Tibbertibber.com in 𝕏Mar 2022 · $100M

Tibber is a digital energy company that helps customers reduce electricity consumption and manage energy costs through real-time pricing visibility and smart home integrations.

CleantechEnergyIoTSaaSOslo, NO

Daniel Lindén inEdgeir Vårdal Aksnes

Co-investorsAggregate Media Balderton Capital Creandum Eviny Ventures Wellstreet Eight Roads Ventures +1 more

Velseravelsera.com in 𝕏

Velsera provides integrated software and expert services that turn complex biomedical and genomic data into usable insights for precision medicine, drug discovery, diagnostics development, and genetic testing.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital HealthHealthtech

Jamie Coffin(Chief Executive Officer)inKareem Saad(President and Chief Business Officer)in Pavel Gongora(Chief Strategy and Product Officer)inMike Kling(Chief Technology Officer)Lou Clarke(Chief People Officer)in Becky Zimmerman(SVP Clinical Product and Chief Clinical Officer)in

Co-investorsHealth Catalyst Capital OrbiMed SJF Ventures

ZeroAvia x-tech-roboticszeroavia.com in 𝕏

ZeroAvia develops hydrogen-electric powertrain technology for aircraft, aiming to enable zero-emission aviation.

CleantechClimate TechDeep TechMobility & TransportationHollister, US

Valery Miftakhov(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Sergey Kiselev(Director)in James McMicking(Chief Strategy Officer)in

BoardGeoff Eisenberg(Director)in Matt Eggers(Director)inChristine Ourmieres-Widener(Director)

Co-investorsAP Ventures Breakthrough Energy Ventures Dnipro Ecosystem Integrity Fund Horizons Ventures Scottish National Investment Bank +8 more

Portfolio news

latest coverage across their companies

Index Ventures leads €20M into Berlin's Nomos to power Europe's invisible utility layer — TFN

Tibber · techfundingnews.com · Sep 15, 2026

Safran CTO details scope of ZeroAvia collaboration - FlightGlobal

ZeroAvia x-tech-robotics · flightglobal.com · Aug 20, 2026

Summa Equity buys Peoplesafe to boost worker safety

Peoplesafe · cfotech.co.uk · Jan 15, 2026

Fund performance · per public LP disclosures · 4

as of Jun 2025

Fund	Vintage	Committed	Net IRR	TVPI	DPI
Summa Equity Fund III-No 1 ABLPs: Florida State Board of Administration	2022	—	4.5%	1.07x	0.00x
Summa Equity Fund III-No ABLPs: Florida State Board of Administration	2022	—	—	0.50x	0.00x
Summa Equity Fund II-No 1 ABLPs: Florida State Board of Administration	2020	—	22.4%	1.59x	1.27x
SUMMA EQUITY FUND IILPs: Florida State Board of Administration, University of Texas Investment Management Company	2001	—	85.7%	1.65x	0.32x

Source: public limited-partner disclosures (CalPERS, CalSTRS). Net IRR / TVPI / DPI as reported by the limited partner; a fund's early-year IRR is an interim estimate (J-curve).

Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Summa Equity made?: Summa Equity has 8 tracked investments.
What stage does Summa Equity invest at?: Summa Equity invests at the Series B, Series C, Growth, Late Stage stages.
What sectors does Summa Equity focus on?: Summa Equity focuses on AgTech, Circular Economy, Cleantech, Climate Tech, E-commerce, Energy, FoodTech, Impact & Social Good, Sector Agnostic.
Where is Summa Equity located?: Summa Equity is headquartered in Stockholm, SE.
Who does Summa Equity co-invest with?: Summa Equity most often shares deals with Alliance VC, Alliance Venture, CNI, among 4 tracked co-investors.

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