Main Capital Takes Majority Stake in Pointsharp

Main Capital, a strategic investor with an exclusive focus on Enterprise software companies, acquires majority stake in Identity & Access Management solution provider Pointsharp. 

With the acquisition, Pointsharp will focus on an organic growth strategy of strengthening the partner network for further international expansion, complemented with smart strategic acquisitions focused on created a leading security player in North-Western Europe.

Niklas Brask, Managing Director of Pointsharp, commented:"With Main Capital's long experience of software companies, we are happy to have them as active owners and part of Pointsharp. Main Capital not only shares our view of the security market, but also the culture within Pointsharp which is an important part of the company's success. Together we will continue to grow the partner network and help customers to do what we are best at, deliver security that helps their employees to be mobile and work remotely."

Charly Zwemstra, Managing Partner at Main Capital, said:"Stricter security and compliance requirement of organizations, in combination with the increasing need for remote workforce access, provides strong growth perspective in this part of the security market. We are impressed by how the Management team of Pointsharp have been able to realize autonomous growth in a profitable way and build-up a strong position in the market. We look forward to the opportunity to collaborate with the management team of Pointsharp and together add further value to the clients by expanding and developing the product offering both organically and by acquisitions in the Nordics, Benelux and DACH regions."

About Pointsharp

Pointsharp, founded in 2006, enables organizations to secure IT environments with a high-level of control for IT departments combined with an intuitive mobile user experience. Pointsharp has a broad solution offering in the Identity and Access Management market related to multifactor authentication, security gateway, user provisioning and password management. The company serves more than 220 enterprise organizations globally with high security or sensitive data needs in several different market verticals, including finance, governmental, and industrial. Example customers are: Volvo, NCC, Karolinska Institutet, Skandia and Audi.