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Photo: Sven van Berge Henegouwen, Managing Partner at Main Capital Partners

Bizzdesign continues to grow with two prominent acquisitions

Photo: Sven van Berge Henegou­wen, Mana­ging Part­ner at Main Capi­tal Partners
5. Septem­ber 2024
The Hague — Bizz­de­sign announ­ces the comple­tion of two acqui­si­ti­ons that will make the company a global leader in the digi­tal trans­for­ma­tion soft­ware market.
Bizz­de­sign and MEGA Inter­na­tio­nal, two Gart­­ner-reco­­g­ni­­zed leaders in Enter­prise Archi­tec­ture (EA) soft­ware, announ­ced a defi­ni­tive merger agreement.
In addi­tion, Bizz­de­sign has signed a further acqui­si­tion that will bring the group to total reve­nues of EUR 110 million and over 600 employees.
These two signi­fi­cant acqui­si­ti­ons will create a leading global player in the digi­tal trans­for­ma­tion soft­ware market with offices, employees and custo­mers around the world.
The combi­ned group will conti­nue to operate under the Bizz­de­sign brand, reflec­ting a shared commit­ment to inno­va­tion and custo­­mer-centric solu­ti­ons. MEGA MEGA will be acqui­red by its foun­der and manage­ment, as well as by Belgian private equity inves­tor GIMV.
The acqui­si­tion of MEGA marks the second step in Bizzdesign’s buy-and-build stra­tegy since the merger with stra­te­gic soft­ware inves­tor Main Capi­tal Part­ners (“Main”).
MEGA was foun­ded in 1991 and is head­quar­te­red in Paris, France.
The company is repre­sen­ted world­wide, has offices in 10 count­ries and employs appro­xi­m­ately 350 people.
MEGA’s HOPEX plat­form enables colla­bo­ra­tion, auto­ma­tion and actionable insights to acce­le­rate trans­for­ma­tion initiatives.
HOPEX’s four core solu­ti­ons focus on Enter­prise Archi­tec­ture (EA), Busi­ness Process Manage­ment (BPM), Gover­nance, Risk & Compli­ance (GRC) and Data Governance.
MEGA serves more than 600 custo­mers in the EMEA, North America, LATAM and APAC regi­ons, inclu­ding major banks, insu­rance compa­nies and aero­space compa­nies. Buil­ding a global leader in Enter­prise Archi­tec­ture The combi­na­tion of Bizz­de­sign and MEGA crea­tes a new market leader in Enter­prise Archi­tec­ture and Digi­tal Trans­for­ma­tion, serving a diverse client base of more than 1,000 corpo­rate and govern­ment insti­tu­ti­ons, inclu­ding blue-chip clients such as HSBC, Shell, Wells Fargo and EDF.
With a highly comple­men­tary market presence across all conti­nents, the merger will create a true global market leader in this field.
Bizz­de­sign and MEGA have been reco­gni­zed as market leaders in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enter­prise Archi­tec­ture for over ten years, under­li­ning the leading posi­tion of both compa­nies in this field.
The combi­ned product offe­ring is well posi­tio­ned to support orga­niza­ti­ons in their enter­prise trans­for­ma­tion initiatives.
“We are very exci­ted to part­ner with MEGA,” said Bert van der Zwan, CEO of Bizz­de­sign.
“The merger will acce­le­rate our growth and enable us to deli­ver more inno­va­tive solu­ti­ons and provide grea­ter value to our custo­mers around the world. We see a fruitful stra­te­gic part­ner­ship with great poten­tial to deli­ver a value propo­si­tion in inter­na­tio­nal markets toge­ther with MEGA.” 

Luca de Risi, CEO of MEGA Inter­na­tio­nal, explains: “Bizz­de­sign is an excel­lent stra­te­gic and cultu­ral fit for MEGA.
Our combi­ned strengths and resour­ces will greatly enhance the value of enter­prise archi­tec­ture in trans­forming organizations.
The MEGA manage­ment team is very exci­ted to be a part of this. Sven van Berge Henegou­wen, Mana­ging Part­ner at Main and Chair­man of the Super­vi­sory Board of Bizz­de­sign, summa­ri­zes: “This tran­sac­tion is a mile­stone in Bizzdesign’s growth stra­tegy. We stron­gly believe in working with commit­ted entre­pre­neurs to acce­le­rate inno­va­tion for the bene­fit of their custo­mers. Over the past 20 years, this has been one of the key value drivers for Main Capi­tal in the successful orga­nic and buy-and-build growth stra­te­gies we have execu­ted with our busi­ness part­ners. With Bizz­de­sign and MEGA, we are brin­ging toge­ther two compa­nies that are both known for their inno­va­tion and exper­tise in enter­prise archi­tec­ture, crea­ting a strong foun­da­tion for further global expan­sion. The merger rein­forces our stra­tegy of buil­ding leading inter­na­tio­nal soft­ware groups in one of our core product markets and also marks the offi­cial launch of our expan­sion into France.”
The closing of the MEGA acqui­si­tion is still subject to the neces­sary regu­la­tory appr­ovals. Addi­tio­nal stra­te­gic acqui­si­tion in the field of digi­tal trans­for­ma­tion In addi­tion to the acqui­si­tion of MEGA, Bizz­de­sign recently signed another signi­fi­cant stra­te­gic acqui­si­tion in the field of digi­tal transformation.
This further acqui­si­tion will further streng­then the Group’s alre­ady global market-leading posi­tion in this area and bring addi­tio­nal comple­men­tary and syner­gi­stic product oppor­tu­ni­ties to the Group.
The combi­ned group, inclu­ding this undis­c­lo­sed acqui­si­tion, will gene­rate reve­nues of appro­xi­m­ately EUR 110 million and employ over 600 people, crea­ting a strong foun­da­tion for further orga­nic and inor­ga­nic growth.
A detailed announce­ment of this latest acqui­si­tion is expec­ted to be published during Q4 2024. About Bizz­de­sign https://bizzdesign.com/ Foun­ded in 2000, Bizz­de­sign is reco­gni­zed as the trus­ted global SaaS plat­form for enter­prise archi­tec­ture and is reco­gni­zed as a leader by major analyst firms such as Gart­ner and Forrester.
Bizz­de­sign helps the world’s leading public and private orga­niza­ti­ons ensure successful prio­ri­tiza­tion of invest­ments, trans­for­ma­tion initia­ti­ves and risk management.
Bizz­de­sign helps archi­tects and execu­ti­ves to fully envi­sion multi­di­men­sio­nal archi­tec­tu­ral struc­tures, design and plan both current and future archi­tec­ture, and execute their stra­te­gic trans­for­ma­tion initia­ti­ves with confi­dence. About MEGA Inter­na­tio­nal https://www.mega.com/ Foun­ded in 1991, MEGA is a global soft­ware provi­der specia­li­zing in digi­tal trans­for­ma­tion solu­ti­ons to connect IT leaders, process owners, risk mana­gers and data gover­nance officers.
The company is head­quar­te­red in Paris, France, and has offices in 10 count­ries worldwide.
MEGA’s SaaS plat­form, HOPEX, enables colla­bo­ra­tion, auto­ma­tion and crea­tes actionable insights to acce­le­rate trans­for­ma­tion initia­ti­ves. MEGA serves more than 600 clients in the EMEA, North America, LATAM and APAC regi­ons, inclu­ding large banks, insu­rance compa­nies, public admi­nis­tra­tion and the airspace indus­try. About Main Capi­tal Part­ners https://main.nl/ Main Capi­tal Part­ners is a leading soft­ware inves­tor in the Bene­lux, DACH, the Nordics, and the United States with appro­xi­m­ately EUR 6 billion in assets under management.
Main has over 20 years of expe­ri­ence in streng­thening soft­ware compa­nies and works closely with the manage­ment teams in its port­fo­lio as a stra­te­gic part­ner to achieve profi­ta­ble growth and larger outstan­ding soft­ware groups.
As a leading soft­ware inves­tor mana­ging private equity funds active in Northwes­tern Europe and North America, Main has over 75 employees opera­ting out of its offices in The Hague, Düssel­dorf, Stock­holm, Antwerp, and an affi­lia­ted office in Boston.
Main main­ta­ins an active port­fo­lio of over 45 soft­ware companies.
The under­ly­ing port­fo­lio employs over 12,000 employees.
Through its Main Social Insti­tute, Main supports students with grants and scho­lar­ships to study IT and Compu­ter Science at Tech­ni­cal Univer­si­ties and Univer­si­ties of Applied Sciences. 

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