We have advised Bonitasoft, a French editor of Business Process Management (BPM) solutions, on the sale of a majority stake to Fortino Capital.
Fortino Capital Partners, the European B2B software investor, announced it acquired a majority stake in Bonitasoft from former investors including the Ambition Digital Fund (FAN) managed by Bpifrance, on behalf of the French State, Auriga Partners, Serena Capital and Ventech. As part of the transaction, Miguel Valdes and Charles Souillard, who founded Bonitasoft in 2009, will reinvest and team up with Fortino Capital during this new phase of growth.
Bonitasoft is a leading software company active in the field of Digital Process Automation and Intelligent Business Process Management. Featured on the Gartner iBPM Magic Quadrant (2019) and Forrester DPA Wave (2021), the company is best known for its widely adopted open-source Business Process Management platform, which is used by enterprise customers around the world to model, automate, deploy and continuously improve their business processes.
Among Bonita Enterprise's clients are blue-chip companies such as Verallia, Crédit Agricole, and Hyster-Yale. Leveraging its community of over 150,000 developers who are furthering the product on a daily basis, Bonitasoft has become their BPM platform of choice for large, complex automation projects in which there is a need to combine deep technical expertise with appropriate visual tools for business users.
