Oakley Capital invests in Spanish transport and logistics software business Alerce

Oakley Capital (“Oakley”), a leading pan-European, mid-market private equity investor, is pleased to announce that Oakley Capital Origin Fund I (“Origin” or “the Fund”) has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Alerce, a leading Spanish provider of transport and logistics software solutions. Origin will invest alongside Alerce’s founding family, including CEO Pablo Pardo Garcia, who will retain a significant stake in the business, underscoring their continued commitment to the company’s success.

Its solutions improve customer service as well as cost and environmental efficiency by providing customers with increased visibility and control over core transportation workflows associated with the shipment of physical goods. It offers a product suite centred around its carrier TMS “Alertran”, with a comprehensive and modular portfolio of adjacent products such as “Senda”, a market leading last mile delivery module. Alerce’s solutions are mission critical to its customers as evidenced by minimal churn and high levels of net retention. Alerce has market leading positions across Spain, Latin America and France through longstanding relationships with blue-chip customers.

Oakley's Investment

Oakley's investment in Alerce reflects its strategy of partnering with founder-owned businesses to accelerate growth and facilitate international expansion. As a trusted partner with more than 30 years track record of continuous customer-led innovation and a modern product architecture, Alerce is ideally placed to expand its product offering, both through organic product development and targeted bolt-on acquisitions, and to continue its track record of profitable growth while increasing its proportion of recurring revenues. The highly fragmented European transport and logistics software market presents an opportunity for Alerce to leverage Oakley's expertise in buy-and-build strategies to expand into complementary markets.

This transaction also highlights Oakley’s commitment to Iberia, expanding its portfolio of existing investments in the region, such as vLex, Idealista, Seedtag, Grupo Primavera (Cegid) and several higher education assets.

The completion of this transaction is contingent upon FDI approval.