Alfa eCare strengthens welfare offering with the acquisition of personal assistance specialist Avancit

Alfa eCare, a fast-growing healthcare software provider in the Nordics, today announces the acquisition of Avancit, active in the Swedish and Norwegian personal assistance market providing innovative solutions for care practitioners in the private and public sector. The acquisition was supported by Main Capital Partners (“Main”).

Avancit, founded in 2000, has grown into a leading player in software solutions for the personal assistance market. Avancit offers several solutions to improve the quality of work processes for care providers in the personal assistance vertical through a comprehensive platform including solutions for scheduling, time reporting and payroll management in one system.

Alfa Group, a leading welfare software provider in the Nordics
Avancit becomes the fifth acquisition by Alfa eCare, since Main Capital Partners became majority owners of the group in 2020. With a complimentary offer targeting the personal assistance market, the Alfa group strengthens its position in the Nordic welfare market. Alfa group currently services over 1,300 customers in the public as well as the private sector, which today includes players such as Humana, Previa, Tandea, Pilke and St Lukas, Region Skåne and Värmland and the municipalities of Joensuu, Hämeenlinna, Nacka and Stockholm Stad.

Albert Winter, Managing Director at Alfa Group, commented: “The partnership with Avancit creates a lot of value and possibilities for our joint customer base as well as strengthens our positioning in the market as the end-to-end strategic software partner in the public and private care market. We are eager about the opportunity of working closely together with the Avancit team to further improve our value proposition towards current and future clients.”

A more complete offering

Petter Fors, Co-founder and CEO at Avancit, adds: “We look forward to working together with and within the Alfa eCare group. It strengthens us, FAST and our customers in several ways, meanwhile also providing us with further opportunities of reaching out to new potential customers with the help of Alfa eCare’s solutions and experience within public sector. It will be an exciting journey together.”

Wessel Ploegmakers, Partner and co-Head of the Nordics office at Main, added: “The combination of Avancit and Alfa creates a leading welfare software provider in the Swedish market and the joint offering will allow for adding further sustainable and strategic value to the end customers. Together with Alfa Group we will keep working towards adding further value to the clients through expanding and developing the product offering both organically and by acquisitions.”