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Connect to a new world of efficiency by utilising cleversoft’s business solutions.
cleversoft, founded in 2004, is a leading software specialist in the RegTech market. cleversoft services more than 200 financial institutions to efficiently comply with a growing number of complex regulations. By partnering with Main Capital the cleversoft management looks to increase its capabilities to accelerate growth with a buy-and-build strategy. Therefore the cleversoft management will continue in its current management roles and as shareholders.
Main Capital, with offices in Benelux and Germany, is a specialized Private Equity investor focused on strong growing software companies. Charly Zwemstra (Managing Partner Main Capital) explains “We look forward to working with the cleversoft management, which has demonstrated an impressive profitable growth path over the last few years. The company offers highly-scalable regulatory reporting solutions for the financial industry. With its products, the company supports the financial industry to overcome the increasingly complex regulatory challenges. We see strong organic growth opportunities for cleversoft in this market. Moreover, through an active buy-and-build strategy, we see ample opportunities for cleversoft to expands its product offering and to enter adjacent market segments, both in Germany and abroad, such as with a combination with our investment in SecondFloor, an Amsterdam-based Regtech company with a focus on the insurance & pensions industry, we have positive experience in this market”.
cleversoft supports globally acting banks, asset managers and insurers to tackle regulatory challenges under regulatory regimes such as the PRIIPs-, and MiFID II, PIB, FIDLEG and AML. The services for these regulations are underpinned with lifecycle management solutions including customer relations (CRM) and marketing processes.
Florian Clever, Founder and CEO of cleversoft, explains: “As a first mover on introducing cloud-based solutions in the German RegTech market for PRIIPs and MiFID II, we are well positioned to further our lead in the European RegTech Market. We are excited to work with Main Capital to increase our traction and to expand our product offering through a addon strategy. Main’s proven track-record in consolidation strategies and software expertise make them the ideal partner to support us in our next growth stage.”
Main Capital is a strategic investor with an exclusive focus on the software sector in Benelux, Germany and Scandinavia. Within this sector, we are the most specialized party in management buy-outs and later-stage growth capital. Main Capital has approximately 400 million euro under management for investments in mature but growing software companies in the Netherlands and Germany. An experienced team of investment and strategic professionals manages these Private Equity funds from the offices The Hague and Düsseldorf. Investments in Germany include JobRouter, artegic and b+m Holding.
