Via Equity

Via Equity is a private equity firm based in Denmark, with additional offices in Munich and Stockholm. Established in 2006, the firm focuses on investing in small and mid-sized companies across Northern Europe, particularly in the technology, media, telecommunications, and information technology sectors. Via Equity seeks to transform its investments into industry leaders, often considering a wide range of sectors beyond its core focus. The firm typically invests between €10 million and €35 million in companies with revenues ranging from €10 million to €100 million. While it generally takes minority stakes, Via Equity is also open to acquiring majority positions. The firm aims to have a board presence in its portfolio companies and may act independently or as a lead investor, often preferring to collaborate with co-investors in specific areas.

Peter Thorlund Haahr

Partner

Peter Thorlund Haar

Partner

Daniel Hallberg

Principal

John Helmsøe-Zinck

Founder & Managing Partner

Jesper Horsholt

CFO

Benjamin Kramarz

Managing Partner

Sebastian Maciejewski

Principal

Aleksander Thorup Møllgaard

Investment Analyst

Jakob Rybak-Andersen

Partner

45 past transactions

Adform

Venture Round in 2010
Adform is the independent and open full stack ad-tech platform that encompasses creativity, data and trading, servicing media agencies, trading desks, brands and publishers globally. All of our solutions are modular, and easily inter-operate with all major technologies used throughout the digital advertising ecosystem. Adform was founded in Denmark in 2002 and is among the world’s largest private and independent advertising technology companies. We have over 900 employees globally, with offices in 18 countries throughout Europe, North America and APAC. Visit http://www.adform.com or http://join.adform.com for more information.

Advania

Merger/Acquisition in 2018
Advania hf. provides integrated information technology (IT) services and solutions for clients in public and private sectors in the Nordics and Europe. The company offers manages services, software, ERP systems, consulting, hardware, IT operations, hosting, data center services, cloud services, dedicated servers, managed services, IT outsourcing, process automation, contact center, IT infrastructure and integration, and web solutions. It serves healthcare and life sciences, banking and finance, infrastructure and telecommunication, policing and homeland security, education and exports, social and family services, industries and commerce, transport and tourism, and fisheries and agriculture sectors. Advania hf. was formerly known as Skýrr HF and changed its name to Advania hf. in 2012. The company was founded in 1952 and is based in Reykjavik, Iceland with additional offices in Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Finland, and Denmark. Advania hf. operates as a subsidiary of Advania Holding Hf.

GoIP International

Series A in 2007
GoIP International ApS delivers private label voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) systems and professional solutions for prepaid and postpaid Voice over IP for the consumer and business market. Its products and services include B2C system, B2B system, IP gateway, OEM system, call shop system, VoIP termination, and VoIP consulting. The company implements VoIP systems for global carriers, Internet service protocols, Internet portals, call shops, and mobile phone companies. GoIP International ApS is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Majority Stakes in C & B Systems A/S/ C & B Solutions ApS/ 14/7-2010 A/S

Merger/Acquisition in 2018
Majority Stakes in C & B Systems A/S/ C & B Solutions ApS/ 14/7-2010 A/S represents the combined operations of 14/7-2010 A/S, C & B Solutions ApS, and C & B Systemer A/S in their sale to VIA Equity A/S. As of September 5, 2018, majority stakes in C & B Systems A/S, C & B Solutions ApS and 14/7-2010 A/S was acquired by VIA Equity A/S. C & B Solutions ApS develops database management solutions. C & B Systemer A/S develops IT solutions for real estate agents. The companies are based in Denmark.

Neas Energy A/S

Venture Round in 2015
Neas Energy A/S provides energy trading and asset management services. The company manages assets in power, gas, and related commodity markets throughout Europe. It provides asset management for power plants, such as thermal power plants, combined heat and power plants, waste incineration plants, biogas plants, and power to heat plants; renewables, including wind, solar, and hydro; and utilities, supply and distribution companies, trading houses, and large scale industrial consumption markets. Neas Energy A/S was formerly known as Nordjysk Elhandel A/S and changed its name to Neas Energy A/S in September 2012. The company was incorporated in 1997 and is based in Aalborg, Denmark. It has additional offices in London, United Kingdom; Hamburg, Germany; and Stockholm, Sweden. As of October 5, 2016, Neas Energy A/S operates as a subsidiary of Centrica plc.

Projectplace International

Venture Round in 2009
Projectplace creates collaborative tools that enable people and organizations to reach their goals. From the free ToDo collaboration tool to the complete project management platform, Projectplace brings secure and scalable collaboration to individuals, small businesses and large enterprises.

Miroi

Venture Round in 2010
MiROi is a well established, privately owned Swedish company with regional offices covering the whole country. They are currently market leaders in the field of E-Learning. Since 1991 they have been providing adult education to both the private and public sector.

Duett AS

Acquisition in 2012
Daldata AS provides accounting software and cloud services.

Adra

Venture Round in 2006
Adra Software develops and markets software for financial process management and the financial close process, helping accounting and finance teams to work smarter and quicker, with better control and accuracy. The solutions streamline and standardize accounting departments and give them an overview of the company’s balancing process in real time.

Dolphin Software

Private Equity Round in 2011
Dolphin Software Solutions is a Software development and consulting company that provides innovative software solution services to multinational companies with a commitment to excellence in service and products. We have become a premier provider of leading edge technology by conforming to the customer needs and expectations in a timely and cost effective manner.

Esmiley

Private Equity Round in 2020
eSmiley’s Food Safety software solution digitalizes all safety and compliance registration and control workflows in professional kitchens and production facilities thereby securing consistent and efficient process management increasing standards for food safety across all relevant industries. The Food Waste software provides a platform for logging food waste and includes an advanced dashboard- and analytics module built in to track sources of food waste, thereby enabling proactive limiting of food waste and improving cost-efficient and sustainable behaviour in professional kitchens and production facilities.

GleSYS AB / Portlane AB

Merger/Acquisition in 2018
GleSYS AB / Portlane AB represents the combined operations of GleSYS AB and Portlane AB in their sale to VIA Equity Fund III K/S. GleSYS AB provides cloud server solutions to businesses. Portlane AB provides Internet service provider and Hosting provider. GleSYS AB and Portlane AB are based in Sweden.

Linka Energy

Merger/Acquisition in 2017
Linka Energy is the developers of biomass plants for everything from residential to industrial use. Linka was founded in 1978 in the wake of the global oil crisis. Since the beginning we have focused on the development and optimization of environmentally friendly forms of energy based on biomass. Today we are among the world leaders within development, design and construction of fully automatic high-quality plants for the European market.

Continia Software A/S

Merger/Acquisition in 2018
Continia Software A/S designs and develops software for payment, and invoicing. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Aalborg, Denmark.

Beneq

Venture Round in 2011
Beneq Oy supplies atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment and thin film coating services. The company offers a range of automated ALD solutions for high-capacity wafer production; ALD research equipment for academic research and corporate research and development; batch production ALD solutions for use in thin film coating applications; and roll-to-roll ALD solutions for thin-film applications in AMOLED displays, OLED lighting, flexible photovoltaics, battery production, and coating of flexible glass. It also provides transparent electroluminescent displays, rugged electroluminescent displays, LUMINEQ in-glass displays, and custom LUMINEQ displays for transportation, maritime, aeronautics, and defence markets. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Espoo, Finland. As of October 9, 2018, Beneq Oy operates as a subsidiary of Qingdao Sifang SRI Intellectual Technology Co. Ltd.

Beneq

Venture Round in 2007
Beneq Oy supplies atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment and thin film coating services. The company offers a range of automated ALD solutions for high-capacity wafer production; ALD research equipment for academic research and corporate research and development; batch production ALD solutions for use in thin film coating applications; and roll-to-roll ALD solutions for thin-film applications in AMOLED displays, OLED lighting, flexible photovoltaics, battery production, and coating of flexible glass. It also provides transparent electroluminescent displays, rugged electroluminescent displays, LUMINEQ in-glass displays, and custom LUMINEQ displays for transportation, maritime, aeronautics, and defence markets. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Espoo, Finland. As of October 9, 2018, Beneq Oy operates as a subsidiary of Qingdao Sifang SRI Intellectual Technology Co. Ltd.

eSmiley A/S

Private Placement in 2020
eSmiley A/S provides digital food safety and food waste management solutions for professional kitchens in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, and the United Kingdom. It offers eSmiley Digital Self-Monitoring, a self-monitoring program to match users' kitchen and activities; and FoodWaste, a digital tool that helps users' fight food waste. It serves small kitchens, restaurants, cafes, and large industrial kitchens. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

PROCOM

Private Equity Round in 2013
PROCOM A/S is one of the leading suppliers within antennas, filters and combiner systems for wireless 2-way radio communication for professional users.

ALL NRG A/S

Venture Round in 2014
All NRG Group is a full-scope provider delivering highly qualified solutions to the onshore and offshore energy sector. With an exceptional track record of successful international projects, customers benefit from hands-on experience, specialist know-how and extensive service. Customers get consistent quality on time, every time.

mobilePeople

Venture Round in 2008
At MobilePeople we take pride in helping our clients by creating solutions which meets their customers or users needs. As humans we are more and more used to use our mobile phones for seeking information, sharing informations and using all kind of self services -anytime send anywhere mobilePeople is provides Local Mobile Search solutions for the directory publisher and media industry. The company was founded by Jens Andersen and Carsten Gildum in 2002. Today mobilePeople has 50 employees. Headquarters are in Copenhagen (DK) and offices in London (UK), Denver (USA), and Melbourne (AUS).

Frontmatec

Venture Round in 2011
Frontmatec Group ApS engages in the development and sale of food processing equipment and customized solutions for automation in the food, other hygiene sensitive, and utilities industries worldwide. It offers systems for the meat industry, such as carcass grading, slaughter lines, cutting and deboning lines, and hygiene systems, as well as control systems for logistics and packaging. The company was founded in 2016 is headquartered in Kolding, Denmark. Frontmatec Group ApS is a subsidiary of Frontmatec Holding I ApS.

Linka Energy

Acquisition in 2017
Linka Energy is the developers of biomass plants for everything from residential to industrial use. Linka was founded in 1978 in the wake of the global oil crisis. Since the beginning we have focused on the development and optimization of environmentally friendly forms of energy based on biomass. Today we are among the world leaders within development, design and construction of fully automatic high-quality plants for the European market.

Evitec

Venture Round in 2014
Profit Software Ltd provides software solutions to financial and insurance industry in Finland, the Baltic states and Scandinavia. The company provides policy management software that incorporates insurance policy lifecycle from sales through underwriting, invoicing, servicing, and changes, to claims and exit processing; and insurance software package that manages the process chain of the property and casualty insurance industry. The company was founded in 1992.

ComActivity

Venture Round in 2007
Comactivity is a software and consulting company that provides best-of-breed solutions within supply chain. Our mission is to achieve fast and sustainable business improvements based on our solutions at a low risk. Comactivity offers a balance between high business value, short project times and low total cost. Our customer achieves significant measurable results through our joint effort to enhance processes and organisation in combination with the suitable IT solution. Comactivity ensures that each project, small or big, provides a quick impact and measurable results through solid experience and proven methodology. The customer base includes hundreds of medium to large companies in manufacturing, distribution and MRO services and has a geographical distribution covering Europe, Australia and the USA.

GoHello

Venture Round in 2007
Speakanet A/S is the Award winning technology company behind GoHello. The company was founded in 2001 in Copenhagen, Denmark, by two Telecoms specialists who realised that the mobile telecommunications sector was both stagnant yet ready for massive disruption. The company is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with staff in London, UK and Prague, Czech Republic. The company was hailed best Start-up in Ernst & Young's prestigious Entrepreneur Of The Year (2005) competition.

Medotech

Venture Round in 2009
Medotech develops medical equipment that registers and analyses signals from the body. The company offers GrindCare, devices that measure the activity of the temporalis muscle during sleep through an electrode placed on the temple, and then reduces the grinding while patients sleep. Medotech was founded in 2004.

Cego

Merger/Acquisition in 2019
Cego ApS is a mobile app deveoper company which has developed appps like Voodoo Friends. The apps are designed keeping in mind both the iPhone and Android users.

UVdata A/S

Acquisition in 2013
UVdata A/S develops administrative software products for the educational sector.

Adform

Series B in 2014
Adform is the independent and open full stack ad-tech platform that encompasses creativity, data and trading, servicing media agencies, trading desks, brands and publishers globally. All of our solutions are modular, and easily inter-operate with all major technologies used throughout the digital advertising ecosystem. Adform was founded in Denmark in 2002 and is among the world’s largest private and independent advertising technology companies. We have over 900 employees globally, with offices in 18 countries throughout Europe, North America and APAC. Visit http://www.adform.com or http://join.adform.com for more information.

Zoomio Holding

Venture Round in 2007
Zoomio Holding A/S provides software solutions for digital direct marketing. It offers Zoomio Campaigner, which helps to plan, build, execute, and follow up on direct marketing campaigns, including postal campaigns, email marketing, telemarketing, SMS marketing, and inbound marketing; Wizard based Campaigner, an online marketing tool for beginners and e-marketers; Zoomio Analytics, which offers a visual tool that shows results online; Security Plus, an add on product that offers a layer of security when a user logs on to Zoomio Campaigner; and Zoomio Connector, which enables live synchronization between Zoomio Campaign data and CRM system. The company has operations in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Russia; and a development center in Pakistan. Zoomio Holding A/S was founded in 2002 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark with sales offices in the United States, Denmark, Germany, and Holland.

Mansoft

Venture Round in 2016
Mansoft A/S provides information technology consulting services. The company offers technology infrastructure consulting; Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM); as well as web interface for SCCM. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Holte, Denmark.

Frida Forsikring Agentur A/S

Private Placement in 2018
Frida Forsikring Agentur A/S provides insurance broking services. The company provides property damage and property insurance broking services. Frida Forsikring Agentur A/S caters to real estate agents, homeowners, and new residential buyers. Frida Forsikring Agentur A/S was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Glostrup, Denmark.

ePocket Solutions AS

Venture Round in 2011
ePocket Solutions AS provides mobile software solutions for field service management.

EnviDan

Acquisition in 2015
EnviDan is full service environmental company. EnviDan is an engineering company founded in 1995 within the wastewater industry. Today we are a full service environmental company offering professional solutions within the drinking water, wastewater and biogas industry. Our strength lies in our holistic approach to problem solution. We draw on all our in-house competencies when finding the best solutions to a project, resting assured in the fact that all our employees are experts within their field. EnviDan is a Scandinavian growth business with 4 offices across Denmark and subsidiaries in Sweden and Norway. Our core business is groundwater studies, water distribution (NRW masterplans and models), advanced wastewater treatment processes, energy optimization, biogas, reduction in carbon footprint, and technologies developed to improve the handling and structuring of water and wastewater in Denmark and abroad.

Advania

Private Equity Round in 2018
Advania is a leading company in the field of information technology and provides customers with reliable advice and services. They have solutions in all areas of information technology and customers can apply to their individual solutions or integrate its services. Among their customers are large companies and institutions. They're in close cooperation with many international IT companies, such as Dell EMC, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP Business Objects and VeriSign. Their business is certified under ISO 27001 is an international standard for information security. They are proud of Their professionalism, clear communication and the mutual benefits created in collaboration with their customers and suppliers.

Cego

Private Equity Round in 2019
Cego ApS is a mobile app deveoper company which has developed appps like Voodoo Friends. The apps are designed keeping in mind both the iPhone and Android users.

Hostnordic

Acquisition in 2012
Hostnordic offers professional IT Outsourcing and Web hosting of business-critical web and IT platforms to thousands of Danish and international companies. We can handle everything from advanced cloud solutions to user-level support - and we help you find the solutions that suit your business.

PlusFourSix

Venture Round in 2009
PlusFourSix is Scandinavia's leading mobile marketing company, working with some of the world's most respected brands to deliver effective and powerful mobile marketing activities. PlusFourSix adds value through a unique combination of expertise and passion, making it easy for clients to understand and integrate mobile into marketing strategy.

MTI Radiocomp ApS

Venture Round in 2007
Radiocomp ApS is a leading provider of systems and components for next generation mobile and wireless networks. Radiocomp is the first company in the world to develop and manufacture state-of-the-art, fully software-configurable remote radio heads (RRH) and components for mobile WiMAX, WCDMA and LTE radio networks. Radiocomp is also the market leader in silicon independent OBSAI RP3/RP3-01 and CPRI Cores. Moreover, Radiocomp's solution framework includes a local converter digital reference design enabling base station vendors to support optical access over CPRI or OBSAI. Please visit Radiocompâ€:tm:s website at www.radiocomp.com. For sales contact sales@radiocomp.com.

Nets

Venture Round in 2014
Nets is a provider of payments, card, and information services with an ambition. The company helps financial institutions, businesses, and merchants make tomorrow a little easier for the customers while providing unrivaled security and stability. The company turns a complex reality into easy, intuitive, and customer-oriented solutions and guarantee it remains a reliable hub of the payments industry building on unmatched connectivity. Nets was founded on 2003 and is based in Ballerup, Denmark.

Elogic Systems

Corporate Round in 2018
Elogic Systems is one of the leading Scandinavian manufacturers of high-quality enclosures for energy, communication and fibre. Their products are produced in a high quality using highly optimised production processes. Elogic Systems' leading position as a Scandinavian supplier can be partly explained by our flexibility in colour and finish combined with the ability to offer their products in aluminium, galvanized and stainless steel. Elogic Systems offers a broad range of standard products and also offers customised solutions as a natural part of their business.

OptoGaN

Venture Round in 2007
OptoGaN Oy develops and produces high brightness light emitting diodes (LEDs) for solid state lighting markets in Finland and internationally. It offers OptoGaN f-Power I, a blue-color InGaN LED chip for use in various applications, such as indoor and outdoor lighting, automotive, and white LED lamps. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Espoo, Finland. It has a pliot manufacturing line in Dortmund, Germany.

Envidan A/S

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
Envidan A/S provides engineering consulting services for municipals and industrial wastewater. The company was incorporated in 1995 and is based in Silkeborg, Denmark. Envidan A/S operates as a subsidiary of EnviDan Holding ApS.

Conscia A/S

Venture Round in 2012
Conscia A/S is supplies IT infrastructure solutions and 24/7 network, data centre and mobility support.Headquartered in Denmark, the company has also moved into Sweden this year through the acquisition of Netsafe International AB. Conscia builds it infrastructure and offers 24/7 services for Network, Data Center, Security and Mobility. In close cooperation with their customers they focus on getting the biggest benefits from the newest technologies. They strive to be the highest skilled within their area of expertise, and they combine deep professional knowledge with an attitude centered on completing every project successfully and maintaining fast and efficient task completion. Conscia’s expertise and unique service offering ensure continuous development and stable operations for their customers. They are ambitious and hold high standards, and they actively work on creating the best possible work environment for their employees.

DdD retail

Venture Round in 2008
DdD Retail, provides a proprietary combined point of sale software/hardware solution, and primarily operates in the fashion retail industry across Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Norway.