| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.03.2022 | talentsconnect AG secures seven-figure growth financing | The Cologne-based recruiting tech company talentsconnect underscores its ambitious growth plans and secures mezzanine financing from Pride Capital in the mid-seven-figure range. This special form of financing guarantees the company continue... |
| 09.03.2022 | Pride Capital Partners finances further growth of Architrave | Architrave GmbH has gained a new investor in Pride Capital Partners. The software investor, headquartered in Amsterdam, is investing in the Berlin-based PropTech, which was founded in 2013. Architrave has a very scalable business model, sho... |
| 28.02.2022 | Pride Capital Partners invests in buy and build strategy of GBC Gruppe | Pride Capital Partners support the buy and build strategy of GBC. Together with a very experienced management team, the two founders of GBC, Pascal Bechtel and Tobias Geisinger, are executing their strategy to build a leading group of IT se... |
| 24.02.2022 | Netaxis cloud credentials boosted with latest acquisition | Anyroute acquisition set to accelerate cloud-native product innovation within the Telecoms industry and strengthen Netaxis’ growing SaaS portfolio
Brussels, 23/02/22 – Global Software and Services business Netaxis Solutions has acquired An... |
| 31.01.2022 | Pride Capital Partners invests in growth of Wagawin | Pride Capital Partners backs Wagawin’s international growth and expansion plan. The management team, consisting of the three co-founders Nicolas Leonhardt (CEO), Andreas Merold (CFO) and Christian Buchmayr (CPO), has developed the company t... |
| 01.12.2021 | ScanmarQED enters into partnership with Pride Capital Partners | ScanmarQED, a provider of marketing insights & analytics software and services, finds a strategic partner in Pride Capital Partners. Current President, Marcel van der Kooi, has become a shareholder and Pride Capital Partners also acquir... |
| 15.11.2021 | Pride Capital Partners supports Arcus IT with the acquisition of DIFFERIT | Managed services provider Arcus IT, with eight offices spread across The Netherlands has acquired DIFFERIT, located in Hengelo. DIFFERIT is a certified AFAS implementation partner. As a result of this acquisition Arcus IT expands its geogra... |
| 21.10.2021 | New spark in the IT market: BTC has rebranded to Fivespark | Fivespark is the new name of the former BTC. The IT company, founded 20 years ago, further establishes its position as Managed Services Provider (MSP). The mission of Fivespark is to offer IT solutions through a human centered approach to h... |
| 01.10.2021 | eKomi acquires 100% of the leading email signature software company Crossware | The leading European review company eKomi based in Berlin, Germany, acquires 100% of Crossware. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Crossware is the premier software provider for email signature management with more than a million users in the ... |
| 17.08.2021 | Pride Capital Partners provides growth financing to moveXM (formerly TTR Group) | moveXM has received growth capital from Pride Capital Partners to further fuel its growth strategy and support the shift from a service to a recurring SaaS provider. moveXM is active in the field of Customer Experience Management (CXM). The... |
| 04.08.2021 | Pride Capital Partners finances further growth of Kendox AG | Kendox has received a loan from Pride Capital Partners to further drive sales of its cloud solution. Kendox is a software company focused on mid-market customers looking for a GDPR-compliant archiving solution who want to digitize their off... |
| 12.07.2021 | Pride Capital Partners provides growth financing to Netaxis Solutions | Netaxis Solutions has received a mezzanine loan from Pride Capital Partners to further fuel its international growth. Netaxis is a software company focusing on the telecom industry. Netaxis’ software is used in major telecom operator networ... |
| 30.06.2021 | Pride Capital Partners facilitates MBO of Cloud managed services company Fairbanks | Cloud managed services provider Fairbanks International Group (“Fairbanks”) and Pride Capital Partners have strengthened their partnership by realizing a management buy-out (MBO). In this transaction, Marijn van Heeswijk and Eric Kessels ha... |
| 06.05.2021 | Pride Capital Partners and AtlasInvest Holding support the growth strategy of Spotzer Digital | Pride Capital Partners and Belgian investor AtlasInvest Holding have provided funding to Amsterdam based digital marketing solutions company Spotzer to support its growth strategy. In the transaction, Pride Capital Partners and AtlasInvest ... |
| 03.03.2021 | KAIROS partners up with IQVIA | Pride Capital’s portfolio company KAIROS (healthcare software) with offices in Bochum, Berlin and Boston decided to join forces with US listed IQVIA (NSSE:IQV) from March 1, 2021. This is the second exit for Pride Capital Partners in the la... |
| 03.03.2021 | KAIROS partners up with a US based strategic partner | Pride Capital’s portfolio company KAIROS (healthcare software) with offices in Bochum, Berlin and Boston decided to join forces with a US based strategic partner March 1, 2021. This is the second exit for Pride Capital Partners in the last ... |
| 28.01.2021 | German security software provider Link11 acquires Canadian DOSArrest | Link11, Europe’s leading IT security provider in the field of cyber resilience, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of DOSarrest Internet Security LTD to accelerate its market expansion. DOSarrest is a Vancouver-based lead... |
| 13.01.2021 | eKomi acquires 100% of the Dutch market leader Klantenvertellen.nl | The Berlin based feedback management provider eKomi acquires 100% of the assets of Klantenvertellen.nl and Kiyoh from Youvia. By adding these two brands eKomi creates the largest provider of transaction-based reviews in Germany and the Neth... |
| 11.01.2021 | eKomi partners up with Frederix Hotspot | The Berlin-based review service provider eKomi is investing in an owner-managed technology company from Hanover: With the acquisition of a strategic company stake in W-LAN hotspot specialist FREDERIX Hotspot, eKomi aims to further expand th... |
| 15.12.2020 | Arcus IT Group acquires managed services provider Itass | IT service provider Arcus IT Group, with seven branches across the Netherlands, has acquired industry partner Itass from Emmen. Arcus IT welcomes the 25 employees of Itass and adds a new office location in the Netherlands. Pride Capital Par... |
| 17.11.2020 | Marlin Equity Partners signed agreement for growth investment in COYO | Pride Capital Partners is proud to announce that Marlin Equity Partners signed a definitive agreement with portfolio company COYO. The completion of the transaction is subject to applicable regulatory clearances and other customary closing ... |
| 09.07.2020 | KAIROS vs. COVID-19 | The COVID-19 crisis dominated the first months of the year in many ways. This also includes the progress of digitization in everyday life and in companies. The Canadian satirical site “MBA-ish” has sharp-tongued positioned COVID-19 in a pio... |
| 08.06.2020 | Arcus IT continues buy & build strategy with acquisition of Phylax ICT | Managed service provider Arcus IT, with offices in Zwolle, Rotterdam and Oud Gastel, has acquired Phylax ICT Diensten BV, located in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. As a result of this acquisition Arcus IT expands its geographical coverage in the Netherl... |
| 06.05.2020 | Pride Capital Partners finances buy and build strategy of Arcus IT | Amsterdam/Zwolle, May 6, 2020
Managed services company Arcus IT Group (“Arcus IT”) has attracted a mezzanine loan from Pride Capital Partners to co-finance its acquisition strategy. Arcus IT, founded in 2016 by Rob Verbeek, has grown throu... |
| 25.02.2020 | Pride Capital Partners portfolio company Onguard is sold to Visma | Amsterdam, February 25, 2020
Cloud-based credit management software company Onguard has been acquired by Visma, a Norway-based provider of business software. Onguard has been in the mezzanine portfolio of Pride Capital Partners since April... |
| 21.01.2020 | eKomi raises capital from HVB Tech and Pride Capital Partners to buy out minority investors | Cologne/Berlin, January 21, 2020
The global feedback leader eKomi has received a debt financing to pay back its minority investors. This allows management to be in full control again and push eKomi forward.
Management was looking for debt... |
| 05.12.2019 | Spotzer wins at the european business awards 2019 | We are proud to announce that Spotzer was recognised as one of the best businesses across all of Europe and the UK. The company won the top prize in the Customer and Market Engagement at the European Business Awards 2019.
Previously, in Se... |
| 19.09.2019 | Blue Field Agency acquires Immense, Link Design, Totta Research and Totta data lab | Marketing company Blue Field Agency announced that Immense, Link Design, Totta Research and Totta data lab will continue operating under the flag of Bluefield. This autumn the companies – all located in Amsterdam – will relocate to one offi... |
| 11.09.2019 | Management of BTC has realized a management buy-out together with Pride Capital Partners | Amstelveen/Amsterdam, September 11, 2019
Ray Kemp (CEO) and Frank Meerts (CFO) have realized a management buy-out (“MBO”) of BTC together with management and Pride Capital Partners. The founders of BTC, Dick Houtsma and Ronald Horn, remain... |
| 21.08.2019 | Pride Capital Partners provides growth financing to Link11 | Cologne/Frankfurt, 21th August 2019
Link11 has received a mezzanine loan from Pride Capital Partners to finance further growth. Link11’s proprietary cloud security platform protects businesses of all sizes and across all industries from ma... |
| 09.07.2019 | Pride Capital Partners finances acquisition strategy of Blue Field | Amsterdam, July 9, 2019
Marketing company Blue Field has attracted a mezzanine loan from Pride Capital Partners to finance its acquisition strategy. Blue Field is a technology and data driven marketing company that develops and implements ... |
| 24.06.2019 | Pride Capital Partners welcomed the European Investment Fund (EIF) as an investor in Pride Mezzanine Capital I FGR | In June 2019 Pride Capital Partners has realized a subsequent closing, following an initial closing in July 2018. Welcoming the EIF in this closing is an important landmark for Pride Capital Partners who are currently still in fundraising f... |
| 07.05.2019 | Cleversoft acquires risk & regulatory reporting expert SecondFloor | May 7, 2019
Cleversoft group, the Munich based RegTech provider for Financial Services, acquired SecondFloor, an Amsterdam based specialist of risk and regulatory reporting solutions for Solvency II, IFRS 17, FTK, IORP II and others.
With... |
| 28.03.2019 | DTG and Spotzer announce their collaboration in the Netherlands | DTG and Spotzer are pleased to announce their partnership. This partnership will provide great digital marketing solutions to small and medium-sized businesses across the Netherlands.
DTG is committed to delivering great products and servi... |
| 22.02.2019 | Gabler enters into agreement with European regulatory technology company SecondFloor | We are pleased to announce a new partnership between Norwegian pension consultancy Gabler AS and the Dutch regulatory technology company SecondFloor. SecondFloor delivers software solutions for Risk & Regulatory reporting in the highly ... |
| 12.02.2019 | Pride Capital Partners finances international growth of Bright River | Amsterdam, February 12, 2019
Bright River has attracted a mezzanine loan from Pride Capital Partners to finance its international growth strategy. Bright River offers scalable and highly automated visual content optimization services for i... |
| 04.02.2019 | Pride Capital Partners provides mezzanine loan to COYO | Amsterdam/Hamburg, February 4, 2019
COYO has attracted a mezzanine loan from Pride Capital Partners to finance its national and international growth strategy. COYO’s offers an in-house developed social collaboration and intranet platform t... |
| 29.01.2019 | Main Mezzanine continues as Pride Capital Partners | With over 20 years of experience in private equity and debt financing solutions, Main Capital Partners is a well-established name within the private equity and private debt market. In 2014 we started with our mezzanine activity, Main Mezzan... |
| 31.07.2018 | Pride Capital Partners realizes first closing of its first mezzanine fund | Pride Capital Partners has realized the first closing of its first mezzanine fund with a target size of € 100M. Through this fund mezzanine loans are provided to companies in the ICT sector within the Benelux and DACH region. The funding co... |
| 19.06.2018 | Pride Capital Partners finances KAIROS’ international growth and share-repurchase | Amsterdam/Düsseldorf/Bochum, June 18, 2018
KAIROS has attracted a mezzanine loan from Pride Capital Partners to finance its international growth strategy. KAIROS offers a unique combination of biobanking and clinical trial management softw... |
| 17.05.2018 | Spotzer and Tiger Pistol partner to provide a global best-in-class marketing solution for SMB’s | By partnering with Tiger Pistol for Social Advertising, Spotzer can offer holistic and even more sophisticated digital marketing solutions. Adding considerable value to SMB customers by helping them to be discovered and generating leads and... |
| 12.04.2018 | Spotzer partners with Bing | Spotzer Ads is a highly-scalable lead generation and attribution system which has been built from the ground-up to maximise the value of low-budget campaigns for enterprises selling to SMBs.
With a sophisticated-taxonomy, highly-automated ... |
| 30.03.2018 | Orange signs partnership with Spotzer | Amsterdam, March 28 2018
Orange is developing its leader position in the digital services space in France by leveraging Spotzer’s proprietary workflow engine and industry leading services. The partnership ensures digital solutions are buil... |
| 16.03.2018 | Main Mezzanine Capital Finances ICT growth of BTC | Amsterdam/Amstelveen, March 16, 2018
In addition to growing the number of consultants, the focus is on expanding the product and services portfolio, so BTC can deliver even more high-quality ICT services and solutions to its customers.
BT... |
| 15.01.2018 | On behalf of Main Capital Partners we wish you a happy, healthy and successful 2018! | All news items from the past year can be read on the news page on our website. We would like to share the highlights of last year in this annual review.
For 2018 we expect further growth of our investments, add-on acquisitions and exits, b... |
| 12.01.2018 | Marlin Equity Partners Acquires Majority Stake in Talkwalker to Drive Global Growth | Talkwalker, a leading global listening and analytics company, is pleased to announce that a majority stake in the company has been acquired by Marlin Equity Partners (“Marlin”), a global private equity firm with over $6.7 billion of capital... |
| 04.10.2017 | Main Mezzanine Capital provides funding to Spotzer to accelerate international growth | Spotzer has attracted a mezzanine loan from Main Mezzanine Capital to finance its international growth strategy. Spotzer is a market leading company that delivers full service digital marketing solutions through reselling partners to SME bu... |
| 02.08.2017 | Main invests in scalable and flexible cloud solutions | Management of Fairbanks International Group BV (“Fairbanks”), Ruud Harmsen and Ben van der Vegt, successfully realized a management buy-out (“MBO”). Main has structured the deal and provided the mezzanine loan. Rabobank provided the senior ... |
| 18.07.2017 | Main back in back-up business | The management board of DataManagement Professionals BV (“DMP”), Henny van der Riet, Eric Evers and Maurice Pastoor, successfully realized a management buy-out (“MBO”). Main has structured the deal and provided the mezzanine loan, while ING... |
| 22.03.2017 | Main Mezzanine Capital provides Worldmeetings with mezzanine loan for management buy-out | The management of Worldmeetings, consisting of Bob Pieterson, Inge van Rooij, Hans de Lange and Jeanette Winters, have successfully realized a management buy-out (“MBO”). Main Corporate Finance has structured the MBO and arranged the financ... |
| 11.01.2017 | Talkwalker secures €5M funding from Main Mezzanine Capital | LUXEMBOURG/AMSTERDAM, January 11th, 2017
Talkwalker, a major player in the social media analytics market, is pleased to announce it has secured €5 million in long-term funding from leading Dutch software investor, Main Mezzanine Capital. T... |
| 06.12.2016 | OnGuard and Credit Tools join forces | Cooperation results in a market leader in the field of SaaS-based credit management software in Europe
As of today, software companies OnGuard and Credit Tools will work together in delivering innovative solutions for credit management. Th... |
| 04.07.2016 | MBO The Valley leads to exit as well as new mezzanine loan from Main | Philip Kok, Auke Meijer and Brian Oostenbrink, together forming the management team of The Valley, have successfully realized a management buyout (“MBO”). Main Corporate Finance has structured the MBO and arranged the debt financing. Bank f... |
| 15.01.2016 | Main Mezzanine Capital issues mezzanine loan to MUIS Software | The management led by Mattijs Wilms has realized a management buy-out (“MBO”) of Multi User Informatie Systemen BV (“MUIS Software”). The buy-out is partly financed by Rabobank and Main Mezzanine Capital. BrightOrange has advised the shareh... |
| 22.12.2015 | Lunatech management realizes MBO | Ray Kemp and Nicolas Leroux, jointly CEO, have successfully realized a management buy-out (“MBO”) of Lunatech Labs BV (“Lunatech”). Also, some staff members acquired a small stake in the company in this transaction. Lunatech is a Dutch IT s... |
| 06.10.2015 | AllSolutions has entered into a strategic partnership with Internet Overal and Synmotive | AllSolutions has entered into a strategic partnership with Internet Overal and Synmotive. The partnership is formed in GeeFirm. The newly founded GeeFirm is a Google implementation partner and shall focus on the implementation of services i... |
| 18.05.2015 | Main Mezzanine Capital issues mezzanine loan to The Valley | The Valley, a leading technology driven marketing and communication company, has attracted a mezzanine loan from Main Mezzanine Capital to finance its growth ambitions and further roll-out of its data platform Nominow.
Philip Kok, CEO of T... |
| 06.01.2015 | Main Mezzanine Capital issues mezzanine loan to OnGuard | In December 2014 Main Mezzanine Capital issued a mezzanine loan to OnGuard, a leading supplier of credit management software for large international companies. The loan has been provided to finance a management buy-out (“MBO”), as Main Capi... |
| 17.12.2014 | Main Mezzanine Capital issues mezzanine loan to AllSolutions | Main Mezzanine Capital issued a mezzanine loan to AllSolutions, a leading supplier of SaaS ERP software, to finance the purchase of own shares. The loan has a risk-bearing character and is subordinated to the credit facility from their prin... |
| 15.08.2014 | Main Mezzanine Capital issues mezzanine loan to SecondFloor | Main Mezzanine Capital issued a mezzanine loan to SecondFloor, a leading Dutch financial services and software company with an international customer base, to finance working capital needs and to improve the financial position. The loan has... |
| 18.04.2014 | Main Mezzanine Capital issues first mezzanine loan to OnGuard | Main Mezzanine Capital issued a mezzanine loan to OnGuard, a leading supplier of credit management software for large international companies, to finance its international expansion. The loan has a risk-bearing character and is subordinated... |
