Eversheds Sutherland Poland advises Airbridge Equity Partners on its investment in Survicate

Amsterdam-based investment firm Airbridge Equity Partners has acquired a minority stake in Survicate, one of the world’s leading software companies in customer survey feedback tools. The investment agreement was signed on 20 July 2021.

The Airbridge Equity Partners fund was advised by M&A/VC lawyers of Eversheds Sutherland Poland consisting of Kamil Ciodyk (Associate, M&A) and Katarzyna Adamczyk (Lawyer, M&A). The team was supported by Martyna Gałdecka (Associate, Commercial), Paweł Lasota (Senior Associate, Employment) and Magdalena Zgłobica (Lawyer, Employment).

Rick van Boekel, co-founder and partner at Airbridge Equity Partners: “Customer feedback is becoming increasingly important to strengthen your competitive position. With Survicate’s platform companies and institutions can get to know their customers and users better. This enables them to optimize their products and service. Survicate helps its clients to collect customer feedback in a professional and scalable way. This already involves some five million digital customer insights per month by customers of various international companies, both B2B and B2C. The company managed to double its revenue each year in recent years. We are pleased to play a role in this growth.”

Kamil Rejent, founder and CEO of Survicate: “We are very pleased to have Airbridge Equity Partners as an investor. They have a lot of experience as entrepreneurs themselves in building their own companies and have a professional core team that can help us improve our international digital marketing & sales strategy, among other things. As a result, in addition to a financier, we have also found a partner who can help us improve our products and further strengthen our position with knowledge, experience and network.”

Airbridge Equity Partners (AEP) was founded in 2017 and focuses on growth financing of technology driven scale-ups in Europe. AEP invests in both B2B and B2C and has investments in the Netherlands (including Knowingo+, ChannelEngine, DAN.com, Doppio, Wonderkind, Join Marketing & Roam.ai), UK (Vintage Cashcow, UENI, Tifosy), Germany (AX-Semantics, TravelCircus, Moebel24), Italy (Data Appeal) and Czech Republic (Smartlook). More at www.airbridge.nl

Survicate was founded in 2013 and provides a world-leading platform for collecting customer feedback. The company is based in Warsaw, Poland. Survicate has around 500 customers including a number of high-profile companies and institutions such as Pipedrive, Weex, Hubspot, Indeed, Pizza Hut, Sonos, Sendgrid, HP, Aegon, Nationale Nederlanden and Harvard University. More at www.survicate.com

The M&A/VC team of Eversheds Sutherland Poland has many years of experience in advising both investors and the entities seeking funding. The team advises on investments at all phases of enterprise growth, from startups at the seed capital stage, to early growth and investments in large companies. It stands out for its experience in transactions involving entities from the sector of new technologies as well as innovative products and services. Thanks to the cooperation within 74 offices of Eversheds Sutherland the Warsaw team can support clients not only in Poland, but also in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the United States. More >