IK Partners exits Quanos to Keensight Capital

• Quanos offers industrial aftersales and digital technical documentation software
• IK invested in Quanos in November 2018
• The Quanos brand launched in 2020 with support from IK’s operations team, following the combination of three software companies

IK Partners has signed an agreement to sell Quanos Solutions, a developer of software and technology for smart information, to Keensight Capital.

Headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany, Quanos provides industrial aftersales and digital technical documentation software. The company offers a product portfolio that enables customers to realise “substantial” cost and time savings, increase operational efficiency, drive profits of aftersales and service activities and enable customers to digitise aftersales services and offerings, according to IK and Keensight.

Quanos recently launched its next-generation cloud platform InfoTwin, a modular cloud product that links information from technical documentation, spare parts management and other sources.

Keensight Capital, headquartered in Paris, plans to support Quanos in its next phase of growth organically and through acquisitions. The company is “well-positioned” to further digitise the aftersales market, and has potential to expand its services offering, market penetration and international reach, according to IK and Keensight.

London-based IK Partners is a European private equity firm focused on investments in the Benelux, DACH, France, Nordics and the UK.