Hague, the Netherlands-based SDB Group, a company that develops and supplies innovative and specialist ICT solutions for the healthcare sector, announced that it has strategically acquired three Dutch software companies to foray into the childcare market.
The acquisitions were supported by Main Capital Partners, a software investor in the Benelux, Dach, and the Nordics.
Main Capital has about 20 years of experience in strengthening software companies to realise sustainable growth and build ‘excellent’ software groups. The firm has over €1B under management and has invested in more than 120 software companies.
SDB’s acquired startups
The acquired companies include CPM4Care and Infent, which were signed in July and September respectively, in order to lead the market as a provider of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions for the healthcare industry. The company has also acquired KindPlanner, to take charge of the childcare market.
This expansion is in line with the company’s ambition to become the market leader in software solutions for the Dutch healthcare and welfare sector.
COO of SDB Group, Vincent van Staalduinen says, “We want to unburden the healthcare professional with innovative software, which is best-of-breed and best-of-suite.”
SDB Group’s mission
The Group develops and supplies specialist ICT solutions for the healthcare sector. It offers cloud-based solutions for the healthcare sector, including software for HR, planning, payroll, electronic client records (ECD), e-learning, and business intelligence (BI). The 45-year-old firm believes in the importance of data science to improve the healthcare sector.
In 2018, software investor Main Capital acquired a majority stake in the company, which was then known as SDB Ayton. Since then, SDB Group has made four acquisitions aimed at obtaining the widest possible range of software services.
The first acquisition was Cormel (ECD software), followed by Reports (data analytics for the healthcare sector), The Competence Group, and CSS Breda (e-learning for the healthcare sector).
With its buy-and-build strategy, the company claims its turnover has tripled and with the most recent acquisitions, the number of employees grew from 70 in 2018 to 220.
Aim of these acquisitions
With Woerden-based CPM4Care SDB Group’s Business Intelligence will be strengthened with various tools to improve the business performance of healthcare institutions, such as a healthcare dashboard and a budget planning tool.
Infent specialises in BI-solutions for disabled care, elderly care, and revalidation care, and offers forecasting, KPI tooling, and master data management. “By combining the strengths of these companies, we not only take a leading position in BI, but we also build on our big data and data science strategy,” says Vincent van Staalduinen.
Marcel Brockhoff, Director of CPM4Care believes, “The combination of CPM4Care, SDB Group, and Infent allow us to help healthcare institutions even better in fulfilling the requirements in terms of reporting and make valuable healthcare data accessible.”
With the acquisition of KindPlanner, SDB Group claims to strengthen its position within the welfare market. The company says this will make them the only player in the market that can offer a complete, integrated, and user-friendly software solution to childcare companies.
KindPlanner CEO Vincent van Nimwegen says, “SDB Group had everything KindPlanner didn’t, and vice versa: they have software for payroll and business intelligence, we offer child planning and invoicing software and a portal to communicate with parents, which over 100 childcare companies are already using.”
