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Value Not Disclosed 11/17/2023 Technology, Media & Telecom Complete
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Transaction Details

  • On November 17, 2023, GENUI GmbH (“GENUI”), announced the completed investment in KGS Software GmbH (“kgs”). GENUI acquired a majority stake from Maxburg Capital Partners GmbH (“Maxburg”). Maxburg will continue its involvement via a co-investment.
  • Following the transaction’s completion, Cancom founder Klaus Weinmann will become Chairman of the Board at kgs. Bernd-Michael Rumpf, formerly responsible for the Enterprise side at SAP, will complement the board.
  • The existing management team will continue steering and advancing kgs’ future development.

About the company

KGS Software
kgs with headquarters in Neu-Isenburg near Frankfurt am Main, has been the digital archive specialist for top global companies for over 20 years. Data and documents from SAP as well as documents from other leading applications are migrated and archived using efficient, lean software. Under the brand "tia®" – the intelligent archive – kgs has been uniting all product modules into one common vision of the intelligent document archive since 2020.

GENUI
GENUI is a private investment firm established by a group of Entrepreneurs and investment professionals focusing on themes that allow a balance of financial return, as well as social and ecological impact potential. GENUI invests in medium-sized companies (“Mittelstand”) in the German-speaking region in the focus areas Healthcare, Digitalisation and Environmental Transformation.

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