Main Software 50 Benelux

17 November 2022

Utrecht, The Netherlands

The Fabrique

The Main Software 50 Benelux 2022 ranking has been announced!

We look back on a fantastic event with more than 200 software entrepreneurs at DeFabrique in Utrecht with the main theme: the social impact of business software. Five special awards were presented during the ceremony: the Overall Champions Awards for the top 3 in the ranking, the Highest Growth Award for the company with the highest revenue growth and the Main Accelerator Award for the most promising new and emerging company.

The 1st Overall Champion and newcomer to this year’s edition is UgenTec, a software provider of PCR workflow and analysis standardization solutions for the healthcare industry.

The 2nd Overall Champion is Plauti, a provider of data management solutions for the Sales Force platform. With this place in the ranking, the company has risen from 6th place compared to last year.

This year’s 3rd Overall Champion is Liquit, a software company that provides solutions for digital workplaces that enable people to work easily anywhere, anytime.

This year’s Main Accelerator Award is presented to Belgian software company Accurat, a data-driven software company that collects and processes GDPR data for retailers.

The winner of the Highest Growth award, a new face in the industry, is awarded to QR self-ordering platform Jamezz.

14:30

Doors open

15:00

Main 50 Facts & Figures: Q&A session with Bram Kaashoek and Sjoert Aarts (Main Capital Partners)

15:15

Panel discussion on Healthtech: How Software Drives Efficiency and Quality within the Healthcare, with Maaike Kleinsmann (TU Delft), Bjorn de Hoon (Avinty), Erik de Heus (SkinVision) and Jan Boersma (Philips)

15:45

Award ceremony Highest Growth Award

16:00

Break

16:30

Award ceremony Main Accelerator Award

16:45

Keynote with Gerhard van der Bijl (Albert Heijn, Etos and Gall & Gall): The Impact of Software in the Critical Delivery Food Retail Chain

17:15

Award ceremony Main Software 50 & Overall Champions

18:00

Networking, Food trucks & Cocktails

Why join the Main Software 50 Benelux?

Where will you rank?

Since 2012, hundreds of companies register for the Main Software 50 each year. A mention in the top 50 is quite an achievement. Next to the top 3 Overall Champions, we also award the highest growth and the most successful company with a revenue under 1 million euro.

Worldwide exposure

The Main Software 50 ranking is watched closely by media, investors and strategic partners in the software field worldwide. A place in this listing can have a huge impact on your company’s future. Main Capital Partners, leading software investor in the Benelux, DACH and Scandinavia, is the initiator of the ranking.

Experience the award show

Only participants in the Main Software 50 receive an invitation to the exclusive award show along with other software entrepreneurs, which this year took place November 17th at DeFabrique in Utrecht.

“The Main Software 50 looks at a set of balanced KPIs which gives a much better picture of how companies are really doing”

''The Main Software 50 Award we won in 2013 felt like a recognition for all the hard work of the previous years. It was tremendously important! Also for other reasons. For our investors it reconfirmed the correctness of their decision. It helped us in recruiting new people. And it helped us find the courage to keep going. A wonderful gift.''

''I think it's cool that the Main Software 50 is there. It gives publicity to the Dutch software industry. People often look at the United States and India. But there are many successful and fast-growing companies in the Netherlands too. For OBI4wan specifically, the list meant a great deal for our visibility and branding.''

''I am holding the physical award in my hands. It took me six seconds to find it, even though I've moved to the United States and my house here is being renovated as we speak. This goes to show that the award has meant a great deal to us. Software is not an easy business when it comes to PR. If you call a journalist and tell them there is a new version of your software that also supports MySQL, they will say, ‘So what?’ So this was an incredibly important recognition.''

''We participated to enhance external visibility and also because we wanted to measure ourselves against others. Are we really doing it right, that question. It's not easy to get this insight from the company’s own accounts, certainly not in the early years. We also chose to participate in the Main Software 50 after the initial growth slowed down, because it looks at more than just percentage sales growth, which means that participation remains interesting.''

''Before we were acquired by the Norwegian company Visma, we participated in the Main Software 50 every year. We did that for the purposes of traction and marketing. For customers, a nomination is a confirmation that you are an established party. It also helps with respect to prospects. The award radiates authority.''

''The Dutch software sector could use some more attention. The sector is very dynamic: a lot is happening and there are big successes to celebrate. And not all of this is seen by the media and society. The more the successes become visible, the more this commotion will attract people. That is why the Main Software 50 is a good initiative.''

Main Software 50

Software companies are the engine of the digital economy. The Main Software 50 Awards give acclaim and deserved appreciation to outstanding companies in the sector. The ranking is based on hard company data and audited by independent research organization Dialogic. The Main Software 50 Awards are an initiative of Main Capital Partners, the leading European software-investor.

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