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Founded by Harald Mix in 2003.1
The firm, which is based in Stockholm, Sweden, was founded in 2003 by a team led by Harald Mix, formerly a partner at Industri Kapital, another Nordic-focused private equity firm.
As of 2015, the firm has raised approximately €6.2 billion since inception across three funds. The firm completed fundraising for its first investment vehicle, the Altor 2003 Fund in May 2003 with €650 million of investor commitments. Altor Fund II was closed in March 2006 €1.2 billion of capital and Altor Fund III closed in August 2008 with €2.0 billion of commitments. Altor closed its fourth fund in July 2014, also with €2 billion in commitments.
Altor closed its fifth fund in 2019, with €2.5 billion in commitments.
From Wikipedia’s article on Altor Equity Partners, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4