Spacewell is a software and technology company working with the real estate and facility management industries. The company is headquartered in
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, , Belgium, with offices in Europe and APAC. Spacewell is owned by the
Nemetschek Group, a multinational company.
History
The company was founded as a consultancy firm called MCS in 1989 in
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, by Marcel Eeckhout. It started with developing a product in the area of CAD drawings for built assets. The company's team developed a technology to turn these drawings into data, so that non-specialists were able to work with them. Over time a range of real estate, facility management and workplace software were added, running on a central database, resulting in an
Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS). In 2012, MCS was taken over in a leveraged management buy-in by Koen Matthijs and Steven Lambert.
In April 2016, MCS received €6 million financing from investors PE Group and Jadeberg Partners for integration of
IoT
The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other com ...
into facility management. On August 28, 2018, MCS was acquired (100% of its shares) by the
Frankfurt Stock Exchange
The Frankfurt Stock Exchange (german: link=no, Börse Frankfurt, former German name – FWB) is the world's 12th largest stock exchange by market capitalization. It has operations from 8:00 am to 10:00 pm ( German time).
Organisation
Locat ...
listed
Nemetschek
Nemetschek Group is a vendor of Computer software, software for architects, engineers and the construction industry. The company develops and distributes software for planning, designing, building and managing buildings and real estate, as well as ...
Group, a software provider in the architecture, engineering and construction industries. Six months after the purchase, in February 2019, MCS was rebranded to Spacewell.
In January 2019, Spacewell acquired Dutch SaaS company Axxerion and in December 2020 Spain-based Dexma.
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References
Information technology companies of Belgium
Companies based in Antwerp