A New Chapter: Carlyle Invests in Ingentis

The NASDAQ-listed global investment firm Carlyle is investing in Nuremberg-based organizational effectiveness software provider Ingentis. As part of the transaction, the existing Ingentis management team is substantially reinvesting and will continue to lead the Company. Existing investor Maguar Capital Partners is selling its stake in Ingentis to Carlyle.

Joachim Rotzinger, CEO of Ingentis Holding, comments: “We are excited to welcome Carlyle as our new investor. The team’s deep experience in scaling European software businesses globally, coupled with a strong understanding of our products and market, made them a natural fit. This partnership opens up new perspectives for our international expansion, especially in the US, both organically and through M&A.”

Ingentis develops software solutions for org charting, org design, and org analytics that enable organizations to continuously improve their organizational effectiveness and performance. The company was founded in 1997 and is active in more than 50 countries. Since 2022, Ingentis has been led by CEO Joachim Rotzinger. One year prior, in 2021, Maguar Capital became an investor. The transition to Carlyle Europe Technology Partners (CETP), the European technology investment arm of Carlyle, now marks the next step.

Thorsten Dippel, Managing Director at CETP, states: “We are pleased to partner with Ingentis as it continues to scale in the fast-growing market for organizational design and analytics software solutions. We are particularly impressed by its amazing customers, fantastic team and market-leading technology. This transaction plays to CETP’s strengths in partnering with fast growing European software leaders and supporting their international expansion.”

CEO Joachim Rotzinger expresses his gratitude to the previous investor Maguar: “I would like to thank the Maguar team for their excellent support and guidance over the last few years. We look forward to entering our next growth chapter with Carlyle.”

Ingentis and Maguar were advised by Robert W. Baird & Co., Deloitte, OC&C, valantic, LUPP + PARTNER, and AC Christes on this transaction.