PDV

Who owns PDV?

PDV is a German Software company, now owned by GSG GENII Software Group, which acquired it in 2022 from BU Bregal Unternehmerkapital.

Aheim Capital is still listed as an investor in PDV, status not confirmed after the 2022 sale.

About PDV GmbH

PDV, operating as PDV.group, is a German software group that supplies enterprise content management and e-government software to the public sector, helping ministries, courts and municipal administrations shift to digital records, electronic files and case processing. Headquartered in Erfurt, it is positioned as the leading ECM software provider for public administration in Germany, bringing several specialist software houses together under one roof. Its member companies include PDV GmbH, whose VIS-Suite and digital-file products serve 764 institutions nationwide, CC e-gov GmbH, which supports around 800 public-sector customers, and regisafe GmbH, a document-management specialist on the market for more than 30 years with a team of over 180. The group also spans committee and session management through its ALLRIS solution and public-transport software via its Jarosch and Haas operations in Germany and Austria, giving public authorities a broad, single-source suite for administrative digitalization.

Ownership journey

PDV traces its roots to PDV-Systeme GmbH, founded in Erfurt in 1990 to build document and data-management software for public administration. In December 2015 the founder sold the company to a group of investors led by Aheim Capital, alongside NORD Holding and the Thuringian development investor bm|t, in a succession-driven buyout of a business that then employed more than 100 people. In early 2019 Bregal Unternehmerkapital, investing through its second fund, came in as majority shareholder to accelerate growth, before exiting in 2022 via a secondary transaction. Aheim Capital has stayed invested across this period and, through its Aheim Evergreen Holding, is today the owner of the PDV.group.

Under PE ownership

Under successive private-equity ownership PDV was transformed from a single Erfurt software house into a buy-and-build platform for public-sector software. Headcount at the core PDV GmbH climbed from roughly 100 at the 2015 buyout to more than 290 across seven German locations, with growth coming from acquisition as well as organic expansion. The group brought in CC e-gov, the document-management specialist comundus regisafe and adKOMM, and added public-transport software through Jarosch and Haas, uniting the businesses under the PDV.group brand created in recent years. The strategy consolidated a fragmented German e-government software market, letting public authorities source electronic files, case processing, session management and transport administration from one supplier.