PDSVISION announces that Bridgepoint, one of the world’s leading mid-market investors, and Polaris, a leading investor in Nordic mid-sized companies, have partnered to acquire a majority stake in the company.
The investment marks the beginning of a new expansion phase as PDSVISION strengthens its position as a leading global partner for digital engineering solutions. CapMan, the majority owner since 2020, exits after successfully supporting the company’s international growth journey.
Over the past five years, PDSVISION has expanded from a 300 MSEK Nordic business into an international digital engineering leader with operations in Europe, North America, India, and Southeast Asia. Today, the company reaches approximately 1.7 BSEK in revenues, operates across 15 countries, and employs more than 500 people. PDSVISION has been profitable every year since its founding in 2008, reflecting a strong, customer-centric, and resilient business that continues to scale while delivering tangible outcomes and consistently high levels of customer satisfaction.
Digital technologies are reshaping how industrial companies design, simulate, manufacture, and service products. With a strong competence foundation, deep domain expertise, and a global operational footprint, PDSVISION is uniquely positioned to support customers in transforming their entire value chain — from design and engineering, through manufacturing, to service operations — helping them accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and manage increasing product complexity.
The partnership with Bridgepoint and Polaris brings additional scale, experience, and resources to facilitate PDSVISION’s continued growth journey.
“The partnership with Bridgepoint & Polaris is unlocking a new chapter for PDSVISION. It enables our partners and us to continue building new capabilities, invest in new solution domains, and expand into new markets.”
Mats Oretorp, CEO, PDSVISION
“Helping customers transform their product design and lifecycle management has been my mission since we founded the company in 2008. The last five years concluded another phase of our journey to build a strong position across North America, Europe, and Asia. I’m grateful for CapMan’s support and excited about what we can achieve with Bridgepoint and Polaris as our new partners.“
Johan Klingvall, Chairman & Founder, PDSVISION
“There is so much potential in this industry, and Bridgepoint & Polaris share our vision and view on the business opportunity ahead. Today’s software and technologies offer a massive opportunity to drive value for industrial companies as they strive for shorter time-to-market, master market requirements, navigate complex systems engineering, and pursue more agile, efficient manufacturing. Ensuring consistency of product data across product development and manufacturing is an absolute necessity to harvest the potential in automation, machine learning, data analytics, and insights.“
Mats Oretorp, CEO, PDSVISION (continued)
“PDSVISION is a clear leader in its field, operating in a market with long-term structural growth driven by industrial digitalization. The company plays a critical role in helping customers adopt, integrate and extract value from technology. Having followed the market and the company for a number of years, we are excited to partner with Polaris and the management team to support PDSVISION’s next chapter.“
Johan Gustafsson, Partner, Bridgepoint
“We are excited to partner with PDSVISION and Bridgepoint to develop the business and drive accelerated growth. We have many years of direct experience from PDSVISION and are impressed by the company’s international market-leading position, which is based on its ability to successfully support customers in their industrial digitalization journeys with market-leading, value-adding, and business-critical solutions. Furthermore, PDSVISION has a strong leadership team and organization with an impressive track record.”
Johan Pålsson, Partner, Polaris
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