AdAstra

AdAstra is a Munich-based growth equity firm established in 2000, specializing in mid-market investments in technology-related companies across Germany. The firm positions itself as a reliable and business-oriented partner for its portfolio companies, actively supporting them in realizing their value potential. AdAstra's team offers interdisciplinary and international expertise, providing guidance in areas such as strategy, corporate finance, and investor relations. They maintain active involvement through advisory board seats and ongoing collaboration, assisting management teams in optimizing business models and enhancing organizational structure. Additionally, AdAstra leverages its extensive network to facilitate connections with potential customers and cooperation partners, contributing to the successful growth and expansion of its portfolio companies.

Thomas Kruger

Founder and Managing Partner

6 past transactions

Kappus

Acquisition in 2020
Kappus mills their soaps six times to ensure a longer lasting bar of soap. These soaps are pH balanced, not tested on animals, and are 100% biodegradable!

Asknet AG

Private Equity Round in 2006
Asknet AG, based in Karlsruhe, Germany, specializes in e-commerce solutions for the electronic distribution of both physical and digital goods. The company operates in two main business units: eCommerce Solutions and Academics. It develops and manages online shops for manufacturers of digital and physical products, offering services such as subscription management, cloud services, and online marketing. Additionally, Asknet AG provides a variety of software solutions related to procurement, distribution, and management for the research and education sectors through its platform, studyhouse.de. The company's clientele spans various industries, including automotive, mechanical engineering, aerospace, chemical and process, power engineering, and healthcare. Founded in 1995, Asknet AG is a subsidiary of The Native SA.

Gomez

Series C in 2003
Gomez is an IT firm that focuses on web application performance and internet management solutions. As a division of Compuware, it offers a comprehensive platform designed to enhance the performance, availability, and quality of web and mobile applications. The Gomez platform features tools for web load testing, performance management, cross-browser testing, and business analysis, utilizing a global network of over 100,000 locations to assess applications from an external perspective. This approach enables clients to monitor and improve user experience across various devices, browsers, and geographical areas. Gomez serves over 3,000 customers, including many leading organizations, and aims to help businesses increase revenue, foster brand loyalty, and reduce operational costs through its innovative solutions.

bäurer

Private Equity Round in 2003
Bäurer AG specializes in developing enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solutions tailored for the manufacturing industry. The company designs, implements, and offers comprehensive IT consulting services to enhance business operations. Its flagship product, b2, is a workflow-based software solution that integrates various business processes, including production, warehousing, disposal, sales, supply chain management, customer relationship management, and financial management. Additionally, Bäurer AG provides software for product planning, service delivery, inventory management, production capacity, and data migration, ensuring streamlined operations for its clients.

Trados

Venture Round in 2001
Global enterprises, large and small, recognize that in order to produce and deliver culturally relevant localized products, they must use humans to translate their material and create valuable multilingual content. TRADOS’ technology optimizes and accelerates the human translation process - both for the individual translator and across the enterprise. Product documentation, web sites, marketing collaterals and software interfaces can be localized in many languages quickly and cost-effectively. TRADOS solutions drive quick, tangible benefits for its clients by accelerating the delivery of the multilingual content and reducing the associated operational costs. With over 55,000 licenses representing the vast majority of the current translation technology market, TRADOS is the gold standard for professional translators, enterprise solutions providers and worldwide leaders such as Microsoft, Siemens, SAP, Volkswagen Audi Group, Oracle and Bowne Global Solutions.

QBeo

Venture Round in 2000
QBeo, formerly Q-Research, is developing digital imaging technology to help people enjoy and share their memories through pictures and video. The privately held company has offered consumer imaging applications for personal computers since 1998. QBeo recently applied its award-winning technology to digital video and the Internet, and is now bringing consumer imaging to the broadband cable environment. QBeo recognizes that everyone sees the world differently. The company’s ImageOp™ technology lets people quickly and easily enhance images to their preference by comparing and rating them against a series of variations. QBeo has also developed editing tools such as cropping, red-eye reduction and dewarping, as well as fun, artistic effects to add to images such as texturing, painting, layering and blending. Founded in June 1998, QBeo has more than 20 employees and a management team experienced in the technology industry. The company’s PhotoGenetics™ software was honored as “Consumer Product of the Year” for 1999 by the Washington Software Alliance.
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