FORUM acquires 100% of AVAPLAN Software GmbH
FORUM Family Office ("FORUM") has acquired 100% of the shares in AVAPLAN Software GmbH, based in Berlin, via its industry holding company FORUM Software Mittelstandsholding SE.
AVAPLAN Software GmbH was founded in 2009 by Philipp Otte and Torsten Kiehns to develop standardized and particularly user-friendly AVA software for building planners, architects and building administrations. AVAPLAN now has almost 5,500 active customers and the company is growing at a healthy double-digit rate every year. The target customers are small to medium-sized planning offices and building administrations looking for simple standard software.
The jointly developed continuation concept envisages the continuation of the corporate strategy in all essential points. In the future, there are plans to cooperate with the sister company Healy Hudson (operator of the "deutsche eVergabe" procurement portal) in order to simplify the tendering process for planners. As always, all employees and the office in Berlin will be retained.
After 16 years of development work, the two founders will hand over the management to a successor by mid-2026, their comment:
"It is important for us to create a stable, long-term framework for our life's work AVAPLAN and our team, which enables us to continue what has been tried and tested and to develop new things in a spirit of partnership. We see this long-term potential in Forum and Healy Hudson. We look forward to working together and also to jointly leveraging synergies within the Group." - Philipp Otte & Torsten Kiehns, founders of AVAPLAN Software GmbH
FORUM invests the assets of a Munich family in medium-sized companies. FORUM's principles in the area of Family Equity are: permanent, decentralized, entrepreneurial - completely different from financial investors. This approach has already convinced 39 entrepreneurs to entrust FORUM with their life's work.
