Avinty’s Director Bjorn De Hoon and CTO Mark Scharloo | Image credit: Avinty
Netherlands-based Main Capital Partners, a private equity firm that backs growth-stage companies through buyouts, announced on Monday that it has acquired a majority stake in Dutch-based Avinty, a software solutions provider for the healthcare industry.
According to a statement, this partnership with Main Capital will help Avinty in continuing growth as well as to continue innovating as a healthcare partner.
Speaking on the development, Sjoerd Aarts of Main Capital says, “Healthcare is a market with an increasing need for efficient and consistent quality improvement. Digitisation offers a concrete solution to this problem that increases both quality and efficiency. Avinty is active with high-quality software solutions that support the care process, freeing up time for care providers, providing better care to patients and reducing cost pressure.”
What does Avinty offer?
Founded in 1994 and based in Oldenzaal, Veenendaal and Utrecht, Avinty is a cooperation of developers of software applications for the healthcare market. It was established by bringing together healthcare software firms, including Karify, Jouw Omgeving, Impulse, VIR e-care solutions, NederCare, and AppNormal.
The company has broadened its product portfolio through an innovation-focused strategy to include a vertical EHR offering, complemented by e-health solutions and mobile health apps. Avinty’s aim is to use these strategies to build an ecosystem of top software solutions for healthcare businesses.
The Dutch company employs 242 people and has 4 offices in the Netherlands, and a software development facility in Hungary.
More than 400 clients in the mental health (GGZ), rehabilitation, juvenile, and disability care sectors in the Netherlands and Belgium use Avinty’s software. Over 65,000 healthcare professionals utilise the programme on a daily basis.
Innovation and growth
With support from Main Capital, Avinty can further develop its product line and provide more value to its clients. Avinty and Main Capital will also work together to realise a faster growth trajectory through the release of new products, expansion into new healthcare markets, and the implementation of strategic add-on acquisitions to deepen and broaden the current product line.
CEO of Avinty, Onno Verstegen, says, “Avinty develops smart software that optimally supports healthcare. We always do this with the interests of the client and patient at heart, so that healthcare professionals can excel at their jobs. During the past years, the group of entrepreneurs behind Avinty has further expanded its ecosystem and made a difference in the Dutch healthcare and ICT landscape. The results achieved will be continued through our partnership with Main Capital Partners.”
About Main Capital Partners
Main Capital Partners is a software investor in Benelux, DACH and the Nordics. The firm carries nearly 20 years of experience in strengthening software companies and says that it works closely with the management teams of its portfolio companies as a strategic partner to realise sustainable growth and build ‘excellent’ software groups.
The company has over 60 employees who work from offices in The Hague, Stockholm and Düsseldorf. The firm has over €2.2B in assets under management and claims to have invested in more than 130 software companies to date. In turn, these companies have created approximately 7,500 jobs.
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