This strategic combination allows customers to benefit from a more complete end-to-end product offering.
Main Capital Partners, which holds a majority stake in both companies, will maintain its position in the combined group. This transaction marks i-doit’s second acquisition since partnering with Main in 2022 and represents a significant step in its internationalization strategy.
Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Patchmanager provides infrastructure management software that enables customers to plan, document, manage, and maintain physical layer connectivity and assets. Its solution is used to model and monitor data centers, office and building networks, and outside plant environments. With a modern, scalable product and over 300 customers worldwide, Patchmanager serves a diversified blue-chip client base across sectors including financial institutions, universities, airports, (semi-)government, and industrial companies. Since Main’s investment in July 2023, Patchmanager has enhanced its recurring revenue share and quality of revenue, while maintaining double digit recurring growth and further professionalizing the organization.
i-doit, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Düsseldorf, offers software solutions for documenting, managing and operating IT infrastructure and ISMS. The company’s portfolio spans CMDB and IT documentation, asset and infrastructure management, as well as solutions for information security, business continuity, and regulatory compliance. Serving around 2,000 customers, primarily in the DACH region, the i-doit group supports organizations across various sectors and regulated industries in managing increasingly complex, interconnected, and mission-critical IT and infrastructure landscapes.
The acquisition of Patchmanager marks an important milestone in i-doit’s ambition to build a leading European software group for IT infrastructure, IT operations and digital resilience The i-doit group combines strong expertise in logical IT documentation, IT operations and ISMS, while Patchmanager adds capabilities for physical infrastructure and connectivity management.
We see a strong synergy between the two and are delighted to support this combination as it enters its next chapter.”
Sjoerd Aarts, Managing Partner & Head of Benelux at Main: “Since Main’s investments in i-doit and Patchmanager in 2022 and 2023, both companies have made significant progress in executing their strategies and further professionalizing their organizations. We see a strong synergy between the two and are delighted to support this combination as it enters its next chapter.”
Constantin Schröder, CEO of i-doit: “We are happy to welcome Patchmanager to our company. Patchmanager has proven to be successful in managing complex physical infrastructures for blue-chip customers worldwide. Their expertise is a valuable addition to our capabilities and represents an important step in our growth journey.”
Michael Kentrop, CEO of Patchmanager: “We are thrilled to join forces with i-doit. Having been in close contact with i-doit for some time, we see a strong strategic fit between both companies. We are looking forward to the next phase of growth together.”
Patchmanager, founded in 2002 and headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is a provider of infrastructure management software that enables customers to plan, document, manage and maintain physical layer connectivity and assets. Its solution is used to model and monitor data centers, office and building networks, and outside plant environments. With a modern, scalable product and over 300 customers worldwide, Patchmanager serves a diversified blue-chip base across sectors such as financial institutions, universities, airports, (semi-)government and industrial companies.
The i-doit group is a software group focused on solutions for IT infrastructure, IT operations and digital resilience. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany, the group serves around 2,000 customers with software covering CMDB and IT documentation, asset and infrastructure management, information security, business continuity and regulatory compliance. With the addition of Patchmanager, the i-doit group offers an integrated view of both logical IT environments and physical infrastructure.
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