News

12 February 2019

Pride Capital Partners finances international growth of Bright River

Bright River has attracted a mezzanine loan from Pride Capital Partners to finance its international growth strategy. Bright River offers scalable and highly automated visual content optimization services for image editing, 3D modeling and product video editing to (r)etailers in Europe and North-America.

4 February 2019

Pride Capital Partners provides mezzanine loan to COYO

COYO has attracted a mezzanine loan from Pride Capital Partners to finance its national and international growth strategy. COYO’s offers an in-house developed social collaboration and intranet platform that serves as a digital home for many medium to large companies in Europe. The platform is sold in a SaaS and private cloud model resulting in a scalable and recurring business.

29 January 2019

Main Mezzanine continues as Pride Capital Partners

With over 20 years of experience in private equity and debt financing solutions, Main Capital Partners is a well-established name within the private equity and private debt market. In 2014 we started with our mezzanine activity, Main Mezzanine Capital, to provide mezzanine loans to scalable and recurring ICT and software companies to finance growth, acquisitions and management buy-outs. The mezzanine business has shown significant growth during the past five years and we have provided approximately € 50M of loans divided over 20 companies, realized 8 exits with attractive returns for our funders, expanded to the German market and launched our first mezzanine fund in the summer of 2018.

31 July 2018

Pride Capital Partners realizes first closing of its first mezzanine fund

Pride Capital Partners has realized the first closing of its first mezzanine fund with a target size of € 100M. Through this fund mezzanine loans are provided to companies in the ICT sector within the Benelux and DACH region.

19 June 2018

Pride Capital Partners finances KAIROS’ international growth and share-repurchase

KAIROS has attracted a mezzanine loan from Pride Capital Partners to finance its international growth strategy. KAIROS offers a unique combination of biobanking and clinical trial management software to European and North-American university hospitals and research centers.

17 May 2018

Spotzer and Tiger Pistol partner to provide a global best-in-class marketing solution for SMB’s

Spotzer, the leading digital marketing solutions provider based in Amsterdam, has announced its partnership with the best-in-class, social ads automation technology company, Tiger Pistol from Austin, Texas.

12 April 2018

Spotzer partners with Bing

Spotzer introduces support for Bing Ads on its proprietary search marketing platform Spotzer Ads. With launches in key markets across Europe, US, and Asia-Pacific, the SMB-focused firm continues the execution of its omnichannel strategy by integrating with the Microsoft powered search engine.

30 March 2018

Orange signs partnership with Spotzer

Orange, one of the world’s leading telecommunication companies, has announced its partnership with Spotzer to deliver comprehensive digital marketing solutions tailored to small and medium sized businesses.

16 March 2018

Main Mezzanine Capital Finances ICT growth of BTC

BTC has entered into a partnership with Main Mezzanine Capital for the strategic support and financing of its growth strategy. BTC is one of the leading Telecom / ICT resellers in the Dutch B2B market. For the future growth with digital workplace solutions, BTC will expand its consultants and sales network.

15 March 2018

Main Mezzanine at Work: Duration of a mezzanine loan

The exit of Talkwalker: how a mezzanine loan can be repaid earlier than initially structured

15 January 2018

On behalf of Main Capital Partners we wish you a happy, healthy and successful 2018!

2017 was a successful year for Main Capital Partners with the closing of Private Equity fund Main Capital V with a fund size of EUR 236.5 million, the relocation of the Düsseldorf office and many new deals and exits. In addition, the team was expanded to 26 colleagues and many visitors came to our annual events.

12 January 2018

Marlin Equity Partners Acquires Majority Stake in Talkwalker to Drive Global Growth

Acquisition helps accelerate Talkwalker’s international expansion of its leading AI-powered listening and analytics software.

4 January 2018

Main Mezzanine at work: Spotzer

The success story of how Spotzer used a mezzanine loan to finance its international growth.

4 October 2017

Main Mezzanine Capital provides funding to Spotzer to accelerate international growth

Spotzer has attracted a mezzanine loan from Main Mezzanine Capital to finance its international growth strategy. Spotzer is a market leading company that delivers full service digital marketing solutions through reselling partners to SME businesses all over the world.

2 August 2017

Main invests in scalable and flexible cloud solutions

Main Mezzanine Capital issues mezzanine loan to Fairbanks to finance a management buy-out and future acquisitions

18 July 2017

Main back in back-up business

Main Mezzanine Capital issues mezzanine loan to DMP to finance Management buy-out

22 March 2017

Main Mezzanine Capital provides Worldmeetings with mezzanine loan for management buy-out

The management of Worldmeetings have successfully realized a management buy-out (“MBO”). The transaction was co-financed with a mezzanine loan from Main Mezzanine Capital.

11 January 2017

Talkwalker secures €5M funding from Main Mezzanine Capital

Talkwalker, a major player in the social media analytics market, is pleased to announce it has secured €5 million in long-term funding from leading Dutch software investor, Main Mezzanine Capital.

6 December 2016

OnGuard and Credit Tools join forces

As of today, software companies OnGuard and Credit Tools will work together in delivering innovative solutions for credit management. This strategic move creates the market leader in SaaS-based credit management software in Europe with over 1,500 customers. Main Capital was actively involved in the creation of this growth strategy.

4 July 2016

MBO The Valley leads to exit as well as new mezzanine loan from Main

Philip Kok, Auke Meijer and Brian Oostenbrink, together forming the management team of The Valley, have successfully realized a management buyout (“MBO”). The transaction was partly financed with a mezzanine loan provided by Main Mezzanine Capital.

15 January 2016

Main Mezzanine Capital issues mezzanine loan to MUIS Software

The management led by Mattijs Wilms has realized a management buy-out (“MBO”) of Multi User Informatie Systemen BV (“MUIS Software”). The buy-out is partly financed by Rabobank and Main Mezzanine Capital.

22 December 2015

Lunatech management realizes MBO

Ray Kemp and Nicolas Leroux, jointly CEO, have successfully realized a management buy-out (“MBO”) of Lunatech Labs BV (“Lunatech”). The transaction was partly financed with a mezzanine loan provided by Main Mezzanine Capital.

6 October 2015

AllSolutions has entered into a strategic partnership with Internet Overal and Synmotive

AllSolutions has entered into a strategic partnership with Internet Overal and Synmotive. The partnership is formed in GeeFirm. The newly founded GeeFirm is a Google implementation partner and shall focus on the implementation of services in the Google-ecosystem for the vertical professional service organizations.

18 May 2015

Main Mezzanine Capital issues mezzanine loan to The Valley

The Valley, a leading technology driven marketing and communication company, has attracted a mezzanine loan from Main Mezzanine Capital to finance its growth ambitions and further roll-out of its data platform Nominow.

15 January 2015

Review of 2014 – Happy New Year!

On behalf of all employees of Main Capital Partners, we wish you a healthy and successful 2015!

6 January 2015

Main Mezzanine Capital issues mezzanine loan to OnGuard

In December 2014 Main Mezzanine Capital issued a mezzanine loan to OnGuard, a leading supplier of credit management software for large international companies. The loan has been provided to finance a management buy-out (“MBO”), as Main Capital III acquired a majority stake in the company.

17 December 2014

Main Mezzanine Capital issues mezzanine loan to AllSolutions

Main Mezzanine Capital issued a mezzanine loan to AllSolutions, a leading supplier of SaaS ERP software, to finance the purchase of own shares. The loan has a risk-bearing character and is subordinated to the credit facility from their principal bank. After the transaction all shares are owned by the management and employees.

15 August 2014

Main Mezzanine Capital issues mezzanine loan to SecondFloor

Main Mezzanine Capital issued a mezzanine loan to SecondFloor, a leading Dutch financial services and software company with an international customer base, to finance working capital needs and to improve the financial position. The loan has a risk-bearing character and is subordinated to the credit facility from their principal bank.

18 April 2014

Main Mezzanine Capital issues first mezzanine loan to OnGuard

Main Mezzanine Capital issued a mezzanine loan to OnGuard, a leading supplier of credit management software for large international companies, to finance its international expansion. The loan has a risk-bearing character and is subordinated to the credit facility from their principal bank.