Sophora Unternehmerkapital

Our role

Our Direct Lending team has provided senior debt facilities on a bilateral basis to support Sophora Unternehmerkapital (“Sophora”) with the financing of its new cybersecurity platform, comprising its freshly acquired German companies, Data-Sec and indevis.

Sophora is set to pursue a buy-and-build strategy to fuel the platform’s geographical expansion across Germany, Austria and Switzerland, as well as expanding its technological offering.

Our Direct Lending team delivered an attractive financing package in a short time frame, including sufficient flexibility to support the platform’s M&A aspirations. Due to our extensive experience financing high-growth platforms with buy-and-build strategies across Europe, our team were well-placed to deliver and execute a bespoke financing solution.

This transaction represents our first with Sophora, who we are delighted to support as they make their fourth investment from their inaugural fund.

About Sophora Unternehmerkapital

Sophora Unternehmerkapital is an independent equity investment firm with a focus on lower mid-market companies in the DACH region making majority or significant minority investments in established businesses generating €5-50m of revenue, and with positive operating cashflow.

About Data-Sec and indevis

The combination of Data-Sec and indevis creates an end-to-end Managed Security Services provider. The platform’s technological offering is built on two pillars: protection and detection; and incident response.