Apheon, a leading European private equity firm, is pleased to announce that it has signed a binding partnership agreement with Easi (“Easi” or the “Company”), a leading Belgian provider of proprietary business software and managed IT services. Through this transaction, Apheon partners with Easi’s founder, the Company’s co-CEOs and its broad base of employee shareholders, who together retain a significant shareholding alongside Apheon and will continue leading the Company. This partnership marks the entry of the first institutional capital into Easi’s shareholder base and the beginning of a new phase of accelerated growth, as the Company scales its software platform and expands from its BeLux stronghold into international markets.
Founded in 1999 by Mr. Salvatore Curaba and headquartered in the cities of Nivelles and Leuven (Belgium), Easi has grown into one of the leading integrated IT platforms in Belgium and Luxembourg, serving more than 1,500 mid-market and large organisations. The Company operates across two complementary divisions: a Software division built around “Adfinity”, its proprietary financial ERP, alongside a suite of complementary business applications as well as a Managed IT division spanning cybersecurity, sovereign private cloud and infrastructure services. Easi employs more than 650 people and is renowned for combining deep technical expertise with an exceptional service culture.
Over 25 years of uninterrupted profitable growth, Easi has scaled significantly through a combination of strong organic growth and disciplined buy-and-build, most recently acquiring Anidris in Luxembourg in 2025. The Company is widely recognised for its distinctive employee ownership model: launched in 2012, the programme today counts more than 100 employee shareholders. This model, a structural pillar of Easi’s culture, underpins its recognition as the number one “Best Workplace in Belgium” for twelve consecutive years, and will be fully preserved under the new partnership.
With Apheon as a partner, Easi intends to accelerate its growth both organically in Belgium and Luxembourg and internationally, supported by Apheon’s pan-European network and buy-and-build track record. The Company will continue investing in its proprietary software roadmap, including the cloud-native, next-generation evolution of its core platform with AI-enabled functionality, while pursuing selective acquisitions to broaden its offering and geographic reach. Easi’s leadership will retain full operational autonomy, with a governance framework built around the genuine partnership between Apheon, management and the employee shareholders.
Salvatore Curaba, Founder of Easi, commented, “Building Easi from a single idea in 1999 into the company it is today, alongside so many talented colleagues, has been the journey of a lifetime. The employee shareholder model we created is the heart of this company, and it was essential to me that any partner would cherish and continue it. I have great confidence in Jean-François, Thomas, the team, and in Apheon as a partner who shares our values, to take Easi to the next level. I look forward to continuing to support the Company as it embarks on this new and exciting chapter.”
Jean-François Herremans and Thomas Van Eeckhout, Co-CEOs of Easi, added, “Easi has been built by its people. In 25 years we have grown from a start-up into one of the most recognised technology companies in our market, while staying true to a culture in which our colleagues are also our shareholders. As we look to our next chapter, and in particular to taking our model beyond Belgium and Luxembourg, we wanted a partner who would protect what makes Easi unique whilst giving us the international reach and resources to grow faster. In Apheon we found exactly that: a partner with an entrepreneurial mindset, a strong local Belgian presence and a genuine European network, who understood from day one that our employee ownership model is crucial.”
Pieter Lambrecht, Partner, and Herbert Vanden Eynde, Managing Director at Apheon, commented, “Easi is a truly exceptional company: a profitable, fast-growing software and managed IT services platform, a category-defining employee ownership culture, and a broad leadership team that has realised unparallelled growth for more than two decades. We have enormous respect for Salvatore, Jean-François, Thomas and the entire Easi community, and we are proud to have been chosen as their first institutional partner. Our ambition is to support them in writing the next chapter, preserving the culture and the model that built Easi, while bringing our pan-European footprint and buy-and-build experience to accelerate the Company’s expansion.”
About Easi
Easi is a leading Belgian provider of proprietary business software and managed IT services. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Nivelles and Leuven, the Company serves more than 1,500 clients across Belgium and Luxembourg through two complementary divisions: Software, anchored by its proprietary Adfinity financial ERP, and Managed IT, spanning cybersecurity, sovereign private cloud and infrastructure. Renowned for its distinctive employee ownership model and its people-first culture, Easi employs more than 650 people and has been recognised as the number one “Best Workplace in Belgium” for twelve consecutive years. For more information, please visit www.easi.net.
About Apheon
Apheon is a pan-European mid-market private equity investment company managing ~€4.5 billion of assets from select global institutional investors and families. Apheon is characterized by its partnership approach, providing “patient and friendly capital” and industrial know-how to entrepreneurs and management teams, preparing their companies for the future. Through its pan-European footprint, the firm acts as a gateway into Europe for companies in the mid-market. Since its founding in 2005, Apheon has raised more than €5 billion in capital, invested in ~45 companies across Europe and completed ~250 add-on acquisitions for a total aggregate transaction value in excess of €8 billion. Apheon’s current portfolio consists of ~25 companies across its target sectors, representing ~€3.5 billion sales and more than 20,000 employees. Apheon is advised by Apheon Advisors, which has offices in Brussels, Milan, Madrid, Paris, Munich and Amsterdam. For more information, please visit www.apheon.com.
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For more information, please contact:
Easi
Charline Coppieters, Marketing and Communication
c.coppieters@easi.net
Apheon
John Mansvelt, COO
jm@apheon.com
T: +32 2 213 60 90
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