Main Capital II

Main Capital Partners is an independent investment firm based in The Hague, Netherlands, specializing in private equity and corporate finance. Established in 2003, the firm focuses on strategic investments in enterprise software companies across the Benelux, DACH, and Nordics regions. Main Capital II, launched in 2006, is a buyout fund that primarily targets the software, SaaS, and technology, media, and telecommunications sectors. The firm aims to create operational and strategic value through long-term partnerships with founders and management teams, fostering the growth of robust software groups driven by solid business fundamentals. With a commitment to value-added investments, Main Capital seeks to build large and healthy companies within its focus areas.

Sjoerd Aarts

Managing Partner & Head of Benelu

Dorian Berndt

Investment Manager

Henri Beverdam

Associate

Pieter Van Bodegraven

Partner

Jonas Bäckman

Associate

Ivo van Deudekom

Investment Manager

Eike Eul

Investment Manager

Job de Fijter

Associate

David Ingman

Associate

Bram Kaashoek

Partner & Managing Director, Market Intelligence & Performance Excellence

Jonas Kruip

Associate

Joris Molenaar

Associate

Wessel Ploegmakers

Partner & Co-Head of Nordics

Robin Rensen

Senior Investment Officer, Operations and Investor Relation

Niklas Rudolph

Associate

Jorn de Ruijter

Investor Relations and Investment Manager

Jeffrey Sanya

Investment Manager

Wilko Scheurwater

Partner and CFRO

Yves Souren

Associate

Rob Tuinte

Associate

Philipp Urbach

Associate

Daan Visscher

Sr. Investment Manager & Co-head USA

Daniel Vukovic

Associate

Sebastian Winkler

Associate

48 past transactions

Paragin

Acquisition in 2021
Paragin is a developer of education and government training software.

Foconis

Acquisition in 2021
Foconis is a provider of data quality and compliance software tailored for banks and financial institutions. The company's solutions assist clients in managing organizational processes, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enhancing data quality. Foconis's software is designed to support internal reporting and help financial entities navigate complex regulatory requirements, thereby improving operational efficiency and security within the banking sector.

Relyon Service Management

Acquisition in 2021
Relyon Service Management creates field service management software for companies in the installation, construction, and healthcare sector.

Perbility

Acquisition in 2020
PERBILITY GmbH develops cloud-based human resources (HR) software solutions. The company offers a HR platform, HELIX, which provides e-recruiting, onboarding, employee potential development, employee feedback systems, personnel planning, HR processes, training management, e-learning, organization and cost management, and job description management solutions. It also offers CHECK-IN e-recruiting tool for recruitment management. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Bamberg, Germany. It has additional offices in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany.

Pointsharp

Acquisition in 2020
Pointsharp AB develops security software for secure login and mobile solutions. The company’s solutions enable enterprises to secure logins of their users to access all their applications in multi-cloud environments. It offers Pointsharp MFA, a multi-factor authentication solution for secure login; and Pointsharp Enterprise, a single sign-on authentication gateway. Pointsharp AB was founded in 2006 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

MACH

Acquisition in 2020
MACH AG develops and offers administrative and financial software solutions, consulting, and execution services for users in federal and state authorities, municipalities, church administrations, teaching and research institutions, and non-governmental organizations. It offers solutions for supporting public administrations in digitization projects. MACH AG was founded in 1985 and is based in Lübeck, Germany.

Geodan

Acquisition in 2020
Geodan provides location intelligence solutions for smart cities, smart living environments, permits, and secure infrastructure. The company provides consulting and project management, content space-related research, spatial planning assistance, application development, GIS software, and geo services for efficient business processes, smart cities, a smart living environment, permits, and secure infrastructure to government and businesses.

Alfa Kommun & Landsting

Acquisition in 2020
Alfa Kommun & Landsting They develop since 1998 health care system for the public sector and private providers. They are the market leader in electronics including prescribing drugs, planning for home care and digital signing of HSL and SOL efforts.

Woodwing

Acquisition in 2020
WoodWing Software was founded in 2000. As the first company to fully commit to the Adobe InDesign and InCopy platform, WoodWing developed the award-winning line of Smart productivity and efficiency-enhancing plug-ins. In order to meet customers’ demands, the focus shifted from the development of productivity tools toward a full-fledged publishing system to streamline the production process. Most recently, WoodWing has obtained worldwide fame as the industry leader in Digital Publishing, enabling companies to easily and efficiently publish content on tablet and mobile devices. In October 2012, WoodWing entered the digital asset management market. WoodWing has regional sales companies in Europe, The Americas and Asia Pacific. We serve hundreds of renowned publishing customers through a network of more than 90 selected partners, who are active in more than 100 countries.

Exxellence

Acquisition in 2020
Exxellence is the supplier for software solutions with which governments work more efficiently and can optimize their services.

Optimizers

Acquisition in 2019
Optimizers is an IT company based in Nijkerk that mainly develops software to optimize logistics and sales processes in trade and production logistics. It has developed App4Sales, Warpspeed WMS, and EDI Gateway. Optimizers is composed of about 60 specialists operating from Nijkerk (the Netherlands), Lund (Sweden) and NYC (USA). It uses the latest programming techniques and mainly uses the Microsoft .NET development environment.

GBTEC

Acquisition in 2019
GBTEC Software + Consulting are suppliers of business process management (BPM) software and process consulting. Due to their complete coverage of the entire value creation chain, GBTEC offers customers unique added value. GBTEC supports you from the first idea through to daily operations with well-founded know-how and unique products. Their comprehensive knowledge in the BPM setting and strong customer orientation have brought us acclaim from leading worldwide companies and organizations within the public domain in a very short time period. From the beginning, they have always oriented themselves toward long-term successful and partner-based relationships. Their customers’ objectives are the focus of their activities. They pursue them with the highest level of dedication.

Onventis

Acquisition in 2019
Onventis specializes in developing cloud-based e-procurement solutions focused on supplier relationship management and vendor-managed procurement. The company offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to enhance purchasing and financial processes. Key products include TradeCore Buyer, an integrated platform for supplier management, sourcing, order management, and analytics; TradeCore Vendor, which supports wholesalers of indirect goods with mobile ordering, approval options, and catalog management; and TradeCore Provider, a solution for group procurement and collaborative commerce. By providing these solutions, Onventis enables clients to optimize and automate procurement activities, improve process efficiency, gain control over financial situations, and achieve cost savings while ensuring compliance with relevant guidelines and regulations.

Assessio

Acquisition in 2019
Assessio develops the highly innovative Ascend platform, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution helping clients find, identify and assess present and future employees.

Hype Innovation

Acquisition in 2019
HYPE Innovation is a Social Business Software vendor specialized on innovation management. Hype combines social networking functionalities with a business value driven innovation management infrastructure to bring employees, customers and business partners together. The sophisticated evaluation and process engine empowers employees to efficiently and effectively interact, collaborate and innovate for clear and measurable business value. Beyond the ability to capture, process and evaluate employee innovation, Hype leverages talent across a company to drive growth. Hype is using market leading gamification, workforce analytics, automated idea trading and evaluation algorithms, voting and sharing functionalities to include employees in a global innovation strategy. Hype Innovation has deployed major installations in Europe, the USA and the Middle East for leading enterprises like Procter & Gamble, BASF, Airbus, Bosch, General Electric, Nokia Siemens Networks, Roche and Hershey's. The Company is headquartered in Bonn, Germany with a subsidiary in Boston, USA.

Cleversoft

Private Equity Round in 2018
Founded in 2004 the cleversoft group is a leading cloud based RegTech provider for financial services. The company is headquartered in Munich with offices in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Luxembourg and Sofia. We optimize and automate business processes for regulatory documents & reports, marketing materials, commission payments and other back office processes or over 300 clients around the globe.

VANAD Enovation

Acquisition in 2018
Enovation, a market player in delivering mission-critical software solutions for secure communication in the healthcare and logistics markets.

SDB Ayton

Private Equity Round in 2018
SDB Ayton B.V. develops staffing software for the health care industry. The company’s solutions include planning, human resource, and payroll administration. It offers software solutions for administrative processes related to the deployment of staff and volunteers. It also enables users to gain insights from into a budget or a specific schedule and test the financial feasibility in advance. The company was founded in 1976 and is based in Den Haag, the Netherlands.

GoconnectIT

Acquisition in 2017
GOconnectIT provides software and services in the field of GIS and field service automation for the cabling and wiring industry. It offers GO MapForms, which facilitates the administrative process related to the tasks that a contractor or net administrator's engineer carries out in the field; Smallworld, an ATLAS application for various net administrators for infra projects; GO MapFormsHouse, which connects revision inspections and maintains land surveying supporting modules benefits; GIS system development and maintenance; and project supervision regarding relocation of cables and pipelines for large infrastructural projects. GOconnectIT began operation in 2001. Its headquarters is in Cothen in the Netherlands.

evania video GmbH

Acquisition in 2017
Headquartered in Berlin, evania video provides publishers with programmatic video solutions, helping them create new revenue sources from already existing inventory. With its team of international video experts, evania video is a pioneer in the field of programmatic video.

Verklizan

Acquisition in 2017
Verklizan B.V. develops and operates a cloud-based connected healthcare platform for social alarms and remote care. It offers UMO platform, which provides social alarms and tele care services, mobile alarm, call canter, tele-health, video communication, activity monitoring, wireless monitoring, lone workers, and virtual keys services. Its product caters to home care, institutional care, security companies, housing associations, insurance companies, and private monitoring organizations. The company was founded in 1983 and is based in Sliedrecht, the Netherlands.

Inergy

Acquisition in 2017
Inergy is in the field of business intelligence, advanced (predictive) analytics and data discovery.

MUIS Software B.V.

Acquisition in 2017
MUIS Software is an innovative SaaS based software developer, specialized in administrative bookkeeping- and ERP software available for use online as well as offline. MUIS offers a broad range of modules; from the offline module iMUIS Business Software, Accountancysoftware or iMUIS Online accounting to branch specific point solutions in close collaboration with our partners. Founded in 1984 and located in Heemskerk.

artegic

Venture Round in 2017
artegic AG supports companies in the construction of customer-centred, digital, best-in-class dialogue marketing. With 10 years of experience in marketing engineering, our service portfolio includes consulting, IT integration and technology for real-time marketing automation and online CRM. Founded as a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and rebranded artegic AG in 2005, we are now the leading German specialist supplier of standard software for real-time marketing automation via email and mobile and operates one of the largest software-as-a-service platforms for digital marketing in Europe.

OBI4wan

Acquisition in 2016
OBI4wan is a comprehensive solution provider for social media monitoring, webcare, and social analytics, designed to assist organizations in managing their online reputation and customer interaction. The platform enables users to monitor conversations across various social networks, including Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, as well as numerous blogs, forums, and news sites. With features that facilitate direct engagement in these discussions, OBI4wan helps companies effectively address complaints and disseminate information, thereby mitigating potential crises. The tool also offers multi-user webcare capabilities for enhanced customer service, along with an extensive publishing module that supports the planning, publishing, and performance measurement of social media posts. Additionally, OBI4wan provides detailed reporting and analytics to help organizations evaluate their webcare efforts and identify key influencers in specific topics. This all-inclusive approach empowers businesses to navigate the complexities of the digital landscape efficiently.

OBILytics

Acquisition in 2016
OBILytics B.V., founded in 2012 and located in Zaandam, the Netherlands, specializes in online social media analytics services. The company assists businesses in enhancing their value by delivering comprehensive insights into customer behavior and optimizing marketing expenditures. Notable clients of OBILytics include Colruyt and Vivat insurance, showcasing the company's capability to cater to diverse industries through its analytical solutions.

Axxerion

Acquisition in 2016
Axxerion B.V., founded in 2003 and based in Heteren, the Netherlands, specializes in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions tailored for corporate service providers, government agencies, hospitals, and housing cooperatives. The company offers an Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS), a web-based platform that facilitates collaboration among users, including co-workers, partners, and customers. Axxerion's software solutions encompass real estate management, catering to various facilities such as office buildings, community centers, and shopping areas. Additionally, the company provides tools for accounting, bidding and procurement, project management, and various forms of management including human resources, maintenance, and inventory. Axxerion also offers consultancy, setup, and training services to support the implementation of its software. With a commitment to enhancing business automation, Axxerion has established itself as a pioneer in the SaaS market in the Netherlands.

Axxerion

Venture Round in 2016
Axxerion B.V., founded in 2003 and based in Heteren, the Netherlands, specializes in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions tailored for corporate service providers, government agencies, hospitals, and housing cooperatives. The company offers an Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS), a web-based platform that facilitates collaboration among users, including co-workers, partners, and customers. Axxerion's software solutions encompass real estate management, catering to various facilities such as office buildings, community centers, and shopping areas. Additionally, the company provides tools for accounting, bidding and procurement, project management, and various forms of management including human resources, maintenance, and inventory. Axxerion also offers consultancy, setup, and training services to support the implementation of its software. With a commitment to enhancing business automation, Axxerion has established itself as a pioneer in the SaaS market in the Netherlands.

Denit

Acquisition in 2016
Denit Hosting Solutions B.V. provides cloud computing, managed hosting, and data centre services for the business market. It offers high-availability hosting, virtualization, managed hosting, Webshop hosting, application hosting, event hosting, ICT outsourcing, security, and disaster recovery services. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. As of August 25, 2020, Denit Hosting Solutions B.V. operates as a subsidiary of Uniserver Internet BV.

B+M Informatik

Acquisition in 2015
B+M Informatik AG specializes in information technology consulting and software solutions tailored for the banking and insurance sectors. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Meldorf, Germany, the company employs nearly 90 staff members. B+M Informatik offers both standard products and professional services designed for banks, savings banks, and insurance companies. It holds a prominent position in the German market with its product FGCenter, which supports banks throughout the application process for promotional loans. Additionally, B+M serves insurers with various offerings, including the AGS Portal, a front-end solution that enables multi-channel product sales. The firm's expertise in the financial sector, combined with its software capabilities, positions B+M as a key partner for financial institutions aiming to advance their digital transformation efforts.

Ymor

Acquisition in 2015
Ymor provider of innovative solutions for Application Performance Management (APM) and IT Operations Analytics (ITOA).

Roxit Group

Acquisition in 2015
Roxit produces and delivers software and services for information management to authorities in the fields of the area domain. Clients are mainly from the public sector and consist of environment services, provinces, municipalities, environmental services and water management.

OnGuard International

Acquisition in 2015
OnGuard International is a developer of credit management software.

The Patient Safety Co

Acquisition in 2014
The Patient Safety Company provides governance, risk and compliance solutions, centered around the improvement of patient safety, to healthcare organizations such as hospitals, mental care institutions and outpatient care services. By means of the innovative TPSC Cloud™ platform, healthcare organizations can automate and support processes such as incident management, quality / improvement management, and accreditation. The platform enables users to configure their own solutions without any programming knowledge.

RVC B.V.

Acquisition in 2014
RVC B.V., a software company, develops image archiving and management, photo archiving and management, microscopy, medical image acquisition, and image analysis solutions for clinical applications.

ChainPoint

Acquisition in 2013
ChainPoint offers software for sustainable supply chains. At ChainPoint they believe that collaboration and sharing of information is crucial for the efficient production of high quality, safe and sustainably produced products. ChainPoint is a secure, online software platform to manage and share product, process and supplier information, from raw material to finished product. With their software and services they help companies improve quality and sustainability whilst reducing cost and risk.

Regas BV

Acquisition in 2013
Regas provides Electronic Patient file software with flexible workflow solutions, which support the primary processes of care institutions. Professionals work more efficiently , communicate more easily and gain more control. Regas is market leader in the Netherlands in social and shelter services and in mental care in Belgium. Clients are from the care sector and range from mental care to social shelters with increasing emphasis on youth care

Connexys

Acquisition in 2013
Connexys is the market leader in recruiting solutions for employers and labor brokers. They measure the entire recruitment and selection process, from the vacancies to the taking of a candidate is their specialty. Building and managing talent pools is also part of the solutions. As recruitment visionaries, they deliver state of the art software to their more than 300 international customers.

Sofon

Acquisition in 2012
Founded in 1998, Sofon is an international software company with offices in Europe and the United States. Sofon is supplier of standard software that enables efficient and guided selling. Sofon provides clients software solutions that simplify, speed up and improve their sales process and the generation of quotations, orders and contracts.

SecondFloor

Seed Round in 2010
SecondFloor B.V. develops risk management software solutions. The company offers information technology (IT) and communication solutions to the financial services sector. Its product includes solvency II service, T4U replacement, enterprise risk reporting, and IFRS 17. The company supplies internal model platforms, standard formula processes, and regulatory reporting tool for QRT’s (XBRL), SFCR, ORSA and RSR. The company’s clientele include Allianz, Prudential, AXA, Uniqa, AGPM, Axis, and Swiss Re. SecondFloor B.V. was founded in 2005 and is based in Schiphol-Rijk, the Netherlands. As of May 6, 2019, SecondFloor B.V. operates as a subsidiary of cleversoft GmbH.

VisionWaves

Seed Round in 2010
VisionWaves B.V., established in 2000 and headquartered in Zeist, the Netherlands, specializes in developing operational intelligence software solutions for enterprises. The company focuses on providing business cockpits that enable organizations to effectively map, monitor, and manage their operations. As businesses transitioned from industrialization to the information age, VisionWaves emerged as a response to the complexities and challenges faced in implementing effective strategies and IT projects. By addressing these issues, VisionWaves aims to support productivity growth and improve operational efficiency. Since July 2015, it has operated as a subsidiary of Industrial & Financial Systems IFS AB.

IASO

Private Equity Round in 2010
IASO is one of the brands in online backup software and storage for consumers, small to mid-sized businesses, managed service providers (MSPs) and enterprises. Generating 600 direct partnerships worldwide, IASO’s Online Backup is ultra-fast, reliable and one of the most advanced and secure technologies available. As for our company’s name, it is rooted in Greek mythology. Iaso is the goddess of recovery. And we believe the ability to recover from data loss is critical to any backup solution.

Zetacom

Acquisition in 2008
Zetacom is a systems integrator based in the Netherlands, specializing in communication solutions for healthcare institutions, government bodies, corporates, and small to medium enterprises. The company is a market leader in healthcare-specific communication systems, with approximately 25% of hospitals and care institutions in the country utilizing its services. Zetacom offers a range of products including business telephony, care alarm systems, voice over WLAN, mobile telephony, and Unified Communications. Additionally, it is involved in the installation and maintenance of network infrastructures, telecommunication systems, and network security solutions. With a workforce of 140 employees, Zetacom operates from its headquarters in Zoetermeer and a southern office in 's-Hertogenbosch, ensuring that it delivers reliable and cost-effective communication systems tailored to the needs of its clients.

iRex Technologies

Venture Round in 2007
Filed for bankruptcy protection in 2010. No longer exists. iRex Technologies provides solutions for portable, electronic reading and writing to redefine electronic paper applications. Its iLiad, an electronic reader product, is used in various application areas, including educational and newspaper publishing, professional applications, and e-book publishing. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Sharewire

Venture Round in 2007
Sharewire specialises in the development of mobile Internet solutions. It was founded in 2003 by a group of Internet professionals who saw the same growth in mobile Internet as they had seen in the expansion of the Internet in the mid 90's. Their mission is straightforward; to provide products and services that can mobilize existing content, regardless of device and mobile network. Today, Sharewire has produced successful mobile solutions for many companies in a variety of business segments. Sharewire has all the knowledge in house to realise projects from A to Z including: Strategy, Concept & Design, Frontend / Backend Development, Marketing and Quality Assurance Management.

iRex Technologies

Venture Round in 2005
Filed for bankruptcy protection in 2010. No longer exists. iRex Technologies provides solutions for portable, electronic reading and writing to redefine electronic paper applications. Its iLiad, an electronic reader product, is used in various application areas, including educational and newspaper publishing, professional applications, and e-book publishing. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.