Polaris Management A/S is a private equity firm founded in 1998 and based in Copenhagen, Denmark. It specializes in investments in mid-market niche companies across various sectors, including industrial services, environmental services, specialized consumer services, and education. The firm focuses on lower middle market investments, typically targeting companies with revenues between €25 million and €200 million and enterprise values from €30 million to €100 million. Polaris primarily invests in the Nordic region, particularly Denmark and Sweden, but is also open to opportunities in China and Brazil. The firm prefers acquiring majority stakes and often collaborates with management teams who co-invest. With a history of raising over one billion Euros across four funds, Polaris seeks to exit its investments within three to seven years, typically through initial public offerings or sales to strategic buyers.
Configit A/S, founded in 2000 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, specializes in developing software solutions that address product configuration challenges for various industries, including automotive, high tech, HVAC, and life sciences. The company's offerings include Configit Quote, a configure-price-quote tool for SAP users; Configit Ace, an application for authoring configuration aspects of products; Configit Model, which assists system integrators in creating configurator applications; and Configit Build, designed for crafting user experiences in solution configuration. Configit’s technology is based on patented Virtual Tabulation™, which allows for the management of complex manufacturing models with billions of possible combinations. The company further strengthened its capabilities in 2014 with the acquisition of 3DFacto, enhancing its expertise in visualization and CAD/PLM integration.
Falck Safety Services is the provider of specialist safety training for the offshore, maritime and renewables industries, operating from over 30 training centres in 21 countries. Each year, Falck Safety Services provides the most realistic and valuable training to thousands of employees from the energy and shipping industries.
Menu is a Danish interior design company. MENU´s philosophy is simple. We want to make the world better, less complicated, a little bit nicer to wake up to. Collaborating with super-talented designers, we make objects to be treasured now… and forever. We work with some of the most exciting and driven creative individuals from the worlds of architecture and design to produce high quality design with a crisp Scandinavian look.
Akademikliniken AB operates aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgery clinics in Stockholm and Malmö. The company offers surgeries for treating patients for various concerns in the areas of lining and wrinkling, dryness, loss of elasticity and luster, acne and hyperpigmented, and sun-damaged skin. It provides breast, skin, face, body, reconstructive, dental, genital, and hair surgery services; and skin care products. The company offers its skin care products online. Akademikliniken AB was founded in 1991 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden. It has consultation offices in Copenhagen and London.
Configit A/S, founded in 2000 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, specializes in developing software solutions that address product configuration challenges for various industries, including automotive, high tech, HVAC, and life sciences. The company's offerings include Configit Quote, a configure-price-quote tool for SAP users; Configit Ace, an application for authoring configuration aspects of products; Configit Model, which assists system integrators in creating configurator applications; and Configit Build, designed for crafting user experiences in solution configuration. Configit’s technology is based on patented Virtual Tabulation™, which allows for the management of complex manufacturing models with billions of possible combinations. The company further strengthened its capabilities in 2014 with the acquisition of 3DFacto, enhancing its expertise in visualization and CAD/PLM integration.
Louis Poulsen Lighting A/S designs, manufactures, and markets lighting solutions for buildings and their surroundings. It offers indoor products that include recessed and surface mounted products, suspended products, pendants, table and floor lighting products, and wall products; outdoor products, including ceiling products, wall products, bollards, posts, and accents; and architectural lighting products. The company provides its products through retailers, distributors, and sales representatives in Denmark and internationally. Louis Poulsen Lighting A/S was formerly known as Louis Poulsen & Co. A/S and changed its name to Louis Poulsen Lighting A/S in 2000. The company was founded 1874 and based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Vest-Wood
Acquisition in 2002
Vest-Wood is a privately held company that manufactures and markets wooden doors in Europe.
Dansk Droge
Acquisition in 2002
Dansk Droge manufactures and markets a wide range of health-related consumer products, including the Futura, Gerimax, Livol.