Month: December 2022
Beyond Capital Partners' investment Dr. Hoffmann Gebäudedienste GmbH expands through acquisition of Gebäudereinigung Daniel Baumann GmbH
December 2022 Frankfurt am Main
Beyond Capital Partners Fund II, a fund advised by Beyond Capital Partners GmbH („BCP“), is continuing its Germany-wide expansion with its platform investment “Dr. Hoffmann Gebäudedienste GmbH” (“Dr. Hoffmann”) by acquiring 100% of the shares in Hesse-based “Gebäudereinigung Daniel Baumann GmbH” (“GDB”). The closing took place on November 30, 2022.
Founder and namesake Daniel Baumann has continuously developed GDB over the past 15 years and established it as one of the relevant facility service providers in Hesse. GDB serves renowned and demanding customers from the commercial sector. The company’s wide range of services includes the approach of advising customers intensively in all areas of building cleaning and finding tailor-made solutions for every need. Daniel Baumann, founder and managing director of GDB, comments as follows: “This new basis opens up perspectives for us and our customers. We will be increasingly able to offer and implement modern and contemporary solutions for sustainable building cleaning and management. In addition, the common goal remains the promotion and good support of all employees – both in the industrial and commercial sectors.”
By expanding into Hesse, the Dr. Hoffmann Group will be able to increasingly meet the national inquiries of its clients in the future. The continuous development of new commercial customers as well as the expansion into other federal states of Germany through further acquisitions will continue to be in focus.
Christoph D. Kauter, founder and managing partner of Beyond Capital Partners, adds: “With Daniel Baumann as an outstanding entrepreneur, the Dr. Hoffmann Group and its managing partner Marlène Sternbaum continue to gain traction in the implementation of its expansion strategy. For the coming year, we are planning further Germany-wide acquisitions of successful and profitable companies from the facility services segment under the umbrella of the Dr. Hoffmann Group.”
About Dr. Hoffmann: Munich based Industriereinigung Dr. Hoffmann Gebäudedienste GmbH is one of the largest and well-established facility service providers in Bavaria. https://www.drhoffmann.eu/
About GDB: Gebäudereinigung Daniel Baumann GmbH, based in Freigericht, is one of the leading premium facility service providers in Hesse. https://www.g-s-baumann.de/
About Beyond Capital Partners: Beyond Capital Partners is an investment company advising its funds on the acquisition of majority shareholdings of profitable small- and medium sized enterprises in the DACH region focusing on the asset-light segments business services, IT, software, healthcare, lifestyle and entertainment. www.beyondcapital-partners.com
Beyond Capital Partners acquires majority shareholding in Soft & Cloud GmbH
December 2022 Frankfurt am Main
Beyond Capital Partners Fund II, a fund advised by Beyond Capital Partners GmbH („BCP“), acquired a majority shareholding in Greven-based Soft & Cloud GmbH (“S&C”). The closing of the acquisition has been accomplished at the end of November 2022.
Soft & Cloud sees itself as one of the leading service providers in Germany for used standard software licenses and is a partner for digital solutions and advisor for all IT-related topics for business-to-business customers. The distribution of these licenses is implemented in a safe, conformable-to-law and TÜV certified process. With at around 4,500 customers from almost all business segments and industries, S&C is both focussed to offer the perfect-fit licenses at a reasonable price to its customers and to offer through its advisory and service approach a sustainable and monetary benefit. S&C´s experienced team of license managers takes care that each license is proven by its origin and the right-to-use and therefore ensures the duty of the documentation required and the audit-reliability for its customers. Beyond that fact, since its inception in 2014, S&C is known to be an innovation leader and was, beneath other things, the first global firm of its kind who used the blockchain technology for the use of a security-proof license transfer of used software.
„Teaming up with Beyond Capital Partners, we found a professional, like-minded investor with whom we can continue the growth of the past years and even accelerate it furthermore. We aim to expand our market share in Europe and will drive the internationalization across other continents. For many countries, the market of used software is entirely unknown. Together with Beyond Capital Partners, we will enter these markets and develop those over the years”, says Michael Helms, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Soft & Cloud GmbH.
„With Soft & Cloud, we continue our successful investment approach to acquire fast-growing asset-light companies in the German speaking countries and to accompany these in their future development. From our perspective, S&C, above all, stands out being the relevant leader in its segment through its professional setup, its strong founders and its ESG and impact compliant business model, representing circular economy at its finest. As Focus “Growth Champion 2021“ and Financial Times “FT 1000 Europe´s Fastest Growing Companies 2021“-winner, we will continue the impressive growth of S&C as a platform and enhance this dynamic by expanding the sales capabilities in Germany and the foreign markets“, says Christoph Kauter, Managing Partner and Founder of Beyond Capital Partners.
About Soft & Cloud: Soft & Cloud is one of the leading service providers for used software licences in Germany and established itself since its inception in 2014 as innovation and technology leader along its sales strategy. www.softandcloud.com
About Beyond Capital Partners: Beyond Capital Partners is an investment company advising its funds on the acquisition of majority shareholdings of profitable small- and medium sized enterprises in the DACH region focusing on the asset-light segments business services, IT, software, healthcare, lifestyle and entertainment. www.beyondcapital-partners.com
This financing is made possible through financial backing of the European Union under the Equity Facility for Growth established under Regulation (EU) No 1287/2013 of the European and the Council establishing a Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and small and medium enterprises (COSME) (2014-2020).
