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Spotler Group takes a leap into the German market with the acquisition of CrossEngage!

Founded in 2015, CrossEngage enables e-commerce businesses to maximize their consumer's lifetime value and create more valuable long-term customer relationships across multiple channels.

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Spotler Group expands its product offering with the acquisition of Buckles

Established in 2014, the company empowers its users with data-standardisation and self-sufficiency in API connections, particularly in the e-commerce space. With over 300 connections currently in place, Buckles’ platform processes millions of orders per month.

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Spotler Group solidifies its customer data platform (CDP) portfolio with the acquisition of Datatrics.

Squeezely, a subsidiary of Spotler Group, acquires Datatrics from its current owner Growens - a listed MarTech business on the Milan stock exchange.

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Delivery scale-up Homerr | Duurzaam verzenden partners with Vinted Go

This strategic acquisition marks a significant milestone in the growth and evolution of Homerr | Duurzaam verzenden and sets the stage for Vinted Go to further roll-out its pick-up and drop-off (PUDO) strategy.

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Spotler Group adds CRM to its B2B Marketing Suite!

Founded in 2004, with ease-of-use in mind, the company provides easily-adoptable CRM capabilities to growing marketing teams.

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Spotler Group extends its e-commerce capabilities with Shopping Minds

Founded in 2015, Shopping Minds provides a practical cloud solution that enables their clients to gain insights and build personalised e-commerce experiences while respecting their consumers’ privacy.

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CNBB and oamkb join forces to build out technology-enabled financial services firm

CNBB Equity Partners ("CNBB") and Pascale Petiet (Founder and CEO of oamkb) have joined forces to build a modern, technology-enabled financial and administrative services business targeted at Dutch small-and medium-sized enterprises. Oamkb is a franchise collective of 120+ bookkeepers, accountants and tax, financial and business consultants with a consolidated revenue of €11m in 2022.

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CNBB leads €3 million funding round in hospitality data platform TAPP

CNBB Equity Partners is proud to announce its latest growth investment: TAPP. Since its founding in 2015, the Amsterdam-based start-up aims to shed light on the blindspot that is Out Of Home food and beverage sales.

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Spotler Group welcomes Wireless Services!

Established in 1998, Wireless Services is a pioneer in the messaging market, boasting the capability of international SMS delivery. Since then, the company innovated further via the development of its Eazy product, an omni-channel communications platform which integrates chatbots, social media, WhatsApp and all other major messaging platforms, enabling the provision of a consistent customer experience across channels.

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Spotler Group strengthens e-commerce suite with Sooqr

CNBB Equity Partners is proud to announce that Spotler Group welcomes its first acquisition of 2023: Sooqr. Since its founding in 2015, with the mission to enable online retailers to offer the right product in the right place at the right time, Sooqr has reached 1.100+ customers, establishing itself as the leading platform for e-commerce conversion optimization in the Netherlands.

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CNBB Equity Partners acquires accounting and administration firm Yaarwerk

CNBB aspires to build a large national office with the firm in the coming years. Growth will be achieved via a combination of strong organic growth and acquisitions of administration and accounting firms focused on SME clients.

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Bynder joins forces with Thomas H. Lee Partners to accelerate growth

US-based private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners has acquired a majority stake in Bynder. Jointly, THL and Bynder will focus on building out an even greater presence in the market for digital marketing assets through acquisitions and product innovations.

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Spotler Group raises €30 million to accelerate growth

Spotler Group, a fast-growing European marketing technology vendor, announces the completion of a capital raise of €30 million from new and existing shareholders.

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Quipu exits to leading French FMS software vendor Sellsy

We are pleased to announce that our journey with Quipu has led to a successful exit to Sellsy, a provider of industry-leading CRM and financial management solutions (FMS) for SMEs.

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Hospitality software platform Horeko acquired by Exact

CNBB is proud to announce that our portfolio investment Horeko, an industry-leading provider of cloud-based hospitality management software, has been sold to Exact. We are very pleased to have been part of Horeko’s exceptional journey since 2019. The Horeko team has managed to show resilient growth and create value for its customers despite challenging market circumstances. We wish Marvin van Dongen and the entire Horeko team all the best in the next part of their journey with Exact.

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Spotler Group Acquires Leading Omnichannel Customer Service Provider OBI4wan

Spotler Group is proud to announce the acquisition of OBI4wan: an omnichannel customer service and marketing solution to bring webcare, intelligent live chat, chatbots, messaging, social engagement, and media monitoring to its growing marketing technology portfolio.

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Spotler Group Acquires Highly Rated UK B2C Vendor Pure360

Spotler Group announced the acquisition of UK-based Purepromoter Limited (trading as Pure360), a leading B2C marketing platform, extending its ability to offer powerful omnichannel marketing automation software in the B2C and e-commerce markets.

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Spotler Group acquires leading CDP Squeezely

Spotler Group is delighted to welcome Squeezely to its expanding portfolio of like minded marketing technology companies. With over 100 ecommerce clients Squeezely has delivered on its promise of simple to build complete buyer journeys across multiple channels.

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Flex-Appeal is now Oneteam

Flex-Appeal is now Oneteam. A new name, new branding but the same mission. Read here their story about rebranding and their mission.

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Spotler Group acquires yet another Dutch ESP and welcomes Webpower to the group

Spotler Group has acquired Dutch Email Service Provider (ESP) Webpower. With this acquisition the Spotler Group is further strengthening its position as the leading ESP in the Netherlands. By adding Webpower the Spotler Group also gives additional European reach in Sweden and Spain. In addition the product range is further expanded with additional options specifically in the area of tailor-made e-mail automation solutions.

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Acquisition of Yuki by Visma

Visma, the European leader in cloud business solutions, takes over the all-in-one accounting platform, Yuki. This is Visma's third strategic acquisition in the accountancy software market in a short period. With the acquisition of Yuki, Visma has immediately taken the lead in the market and now offers accountants the most innovative and complete cloud ecosystem.

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Cevinio to expand international roll-out of touchless invoice management system

Internationally operating scale-up Cevinio secured a multi-million euro investment from Endeit Capital and CNBB Venture Partners. Rotterdam-based Cevinio plans to use the funds to accelerate both its international growth and the development of its smart invoice management algorithms. While making invoice-to-pay processes up to five times more efficient for multinational companies, Cevinio’s platform requires only a short implementation period to be up and running. To help kick-start the international expansion rebranding efforts are underway, including a name change from InvoiceBlox to Cevinio and a new corporate identity.

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Spotler Group becomes the largest Email Services Provider in the Netherlands thanks to its recent acquisitions

The Spotler Group has acquired two new SaaS companies, Measuremail and Tripolis. With these two Email Service Providers (ESP), the Spotler Group has become the largest ESP in the Netherlands. The product range is further expanded with the acquisition providing the additional options of advanced and tailormade solutions. The company thus strengthens its position in a consolidating market.

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Bynder Acquires Video Creation and Template Platform We Adapt

Bynder, the global leader in digital asset management (DAM), has acquired We Adapt, a SaaS solution to help brands scale their video content creation. With the addition of We Adapt, renamed Video Brand Studio, Bynder offers brands a single platform to scale on-brand content capabilities across print, images, and video.

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CNBB invests in employee engagement solution, Wyzetalk

CNBB has made a multi-million euro investment in Wyzetalk, a fast-growing digital employee engagement company. Wyzetalk connects large organizations with their frontline employees through its software solution to improve communication, increase employee engagement and drive business performance. Headquartered in Utrecht, the Wyzetalk and CNBB teams will be working closely to rapidly grow their European footprint.

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It's all about balance

In these days balancing between business and caring for your employees is more important than ever. But it's also more complicated than ever. This article gives some advice on how to keep your company and your employees healthy, now and in the future.

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CommuniGator becomes Spotler

CommuniGator, the UK’s leading provider of B2B, AI Powered Marketing Automation software, announced today the launch of its new corporate rebrand to Spotler. Nearly two years after the original acquisition CommuniGator is now firmly integrated to the Spotler European operation. The next step of the integration plan is the name and brand change.

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Network event

January 16 2020, CNBB had its first network event. In the nostalgic Hotel New York in Rotterdam, just around the corner of our offices, we welcomed the representatives of our portfolio companies.

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Investment in Horeko

July 2019 we added this great company to our portfolio. Horeko has developed software for the hospitality industry and offers the perfect tool for managing both the kitchen as the workforce.