Sam Franklin

Sam Franklin is a Managing Director at EQT Partners, the advisory arm of EQT Group, one of the world's largest private-markets investment organizations. He joined EQT in July 2019 as a Vice President and has since been promoted to Managing Director. Over his tenure he has worked across EQT's Singapore, Munich and Sydney offices — which explains the Singapore (+65) contact number in the stub data, tied to EQT Partners Asia Pte. Ltd. He is now based in Sydney and focuses on EQT's Asia-Pacific activity.

Before EQT, Franklin was an Associate at Affinity Equity Partners in Sydney, where he worked on private equity investments across the Financial Services, TMT, Data & Digital and Consumer sectors. Earlier in his career he worked at Macquarie Capital in Sydney and at Deutsche Bank in New Zealand, building a foundation in M&A and corporate finance across the region.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from The University of Auckland, New Zealand. His public-facing work in 2025 has emphasized infrastructure as a long-term portfolio driver, including a speaking appearance at the Investment Leaders Forum 2025 in Queenstown, New Zealand.

Note: The stub's characterization of Franklin as an "Angel Investor" writing "Seed Round" checks does not match the public record. EQT is a large-cap buyout and infrastructure investor, and Franklin's role is on that institutional, growth/buyout side rather than early-stage angel investing.

• Invests through EQT's institutional private-markets platform — private equity buyouts and infrastructure — rather than as an individual angel.
• Sector concentration: Financial Services, TMT, Data & Digital, Consumer, and increasingly Infrastructure.
• In 2025 he has publicly framed infrastructure as "a core driver of long-term portfolios" (Investment Leaders Forum 2025), signaling a thesis around durable, long-duration assets.
• Check sizes and stages align with EQT's funds (large-cap buyout / infrastructure), not seed or angel-sized investments.