eQ Oyj is a publicly owned investment manager that, through its subsidiaries, provides asset management, corporate finance, and investment services. It specializes in fund of funds investments and secondary transactions, making primary investments in funds being raised and acquiring commitments in the secondary market. The firm invests in venture capital, middle market, buyout, and private equity funds, with a focus on the technology sector. It targets funds based in various regions, including the Baltic States, Northern Europe, North America, South America, Southern Europe, CEE/SEE, Africa, the United States, Western Europe, the EU, Finland, Benelux, Asia, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, France, Russia/CIS, the Nordic Region, the former Soviet republics, and Eastern Europe. In its own funds, it predominantly invests in Northern European and North American funds sized between 50 and 500 million. In client mandates, it invests in European buyout funds of any size. Typically, the funds it invests in acquire majority positions in target companies. The firm was formerly known as Amanda Capital Oyj and was founded in 2000. It is based in Helsinki, Finland.