Schöppingen, Frankfurt and London – 9 February 2022. Hampleton Companions, the global M&A and company finance advisory company for era corporations, has suggested shopware AG, a number one virtual trade instrument answers supplier within the DACH area, on its USD 100 million enlargement capital spherical from international funding company Carlyle and PayPal, the worldwide bills and trade platform.
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Headquartered in Schöppingen and led by means of brothers Sebastian and Stefan Hamann, Shopware provides a holistic omnichannel virtual trade platform this is extremely versatile and has a wealthy set of options, supporting complicated B2C, D2C, B2B and services-driven trade fashions. Shopware’s era is API-first and makes use of an open-source structure, permitting traders to scale whilst developing distinctive buyer stories. Its platform caters to a extremely diverse buyer base throughout quite a lot of other trade verticals, taken with subtle mid-market traders but in addition serving multinational marketplace leaders together with Philips, Jägermeister and Aston Martin. In 2021, Shopware approached a platform gross products price (GMV) of USD 20 billion. Following the a success rollout of Shopware 6, the corporate used to be indexed in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Virtual Trade. Contemporary product inventions have located the corporate as a pacesetter within the increasing virtual trade instrument marketplace for mid-market traders in DACH.
Founders Sebastian and Stefan Hamann will retain an important majority stake within the trade and stay co-CEOs of the corporate. Carlyle and PayPal’s enlargement capital will assist power Shopware’s global growth and the advance of recent merchandise.
Stefan Hamann, co-CEO of Shopware, mentioned: “This investment will assist us supercharge our global enlargement – enabling Shopware to seize the numerous alternatives forward people. Running with Hampleton: it used to be transparent that the group understood the virtual trade instrument ecosystem and its key drivers at this crucial second available in the market. Armed with that experience, we have been ready to search out the easiest companions in Carlyle and PayPal to execute on our shared strategic imaginative and prescient.”
Co-CEO Sebastian Hamman mentioned: “The previous few years have sped up the will for an open-source manner that gives remarkable buying groceries stories for patrons, and we’re poised to additional take pleasure in this enlargement alternative. We’re taking a look ahead to running with Carlyle and PayPal and are thankful to be embarking in this adventure after a structured procedure that allowed us to choose from a number of very good choices.”
Dr. Jan Eiben, managing director at Hampleton, commented: “Virtual trade is at an inflection level, no longer least because of the myriad new trade fashions which are increasingly more demanded by means of the marketplace, from SMEs thru to endeavor consumers. With its versatile, open-source manner, Shopware is optimally located to serve evolving buyer wishes throughout all channels and trade fashions to turn out to be a world chief in virtual trade era. Stefan and Sebastian have constructed a pioneering, formidable corporate and we stay up for the following level in their adventure that they’re going to embark on with globally main enlargement companions.”
The transaction represents some other milestone in Hampleton’s main virtual trade protection, coming at the heels of Hampleton’s advisory of e-commerce personalization AI supplier Loop54 on its sale to FACT-Finder, in addition to the buyout of digital queueing platform Queue-it by means of GRO Capital.
Miro Parizek, predominant spouse and founder at Hampleton added: “We’re proud to have suggested in this thrilling aggregate between a state of the art Ecu virtual trade participant and two revered international buyers and professionals in trade answers. Stefan and Sebastian have constructed a game-changing era, and I stay up for seeing them reach even better heights following this funding from Carlyle and PayPal.”
The engagement used to be led by means of Dr. Jan Eiben, Miro Parizek and Ralph Hübner, with Nicholas Milligan and Tim Stemkens supporting the transaction at Hampleton.
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