We are excited to announce that the FLEX portfolio company marbis GmbH with its brand Nitrado has acquired Apex Hosting, LLC.
FLEX Capital is a private equity investor with a focus on medium-sized software and internet companies in German-speaking countries. “Together with the Nitrado team we set-out to build the world’s leading game hosting company. This landmark acquisition is an important building block for our strategy and yet another proof point of a global tech champion made in Germany”, states Peter Waleczek founder and Managing Director at FLEX Capital.
Nitrado was founded in 2001 by Marco Balle and Marcel Bößendörfer in Karlsruhe. With over 110 employees, the company operates ten data centers on five continents - reaching customers in over 100 countries. In addition to operating a hosting infrastructure for multiplayer games, Nitrado develops software applications for server control, monitoring and security.
Apex Hosting was founded in 2013 by Seth Mattox and John Rendemonti and is based in Florida, USA. Apex Hosting is the market leader for Minecraft server hosting in the English speaking world with rented capacities in 18 data centers. Furthermore, Apex Hosting has a strong customer support focus which results in top customer satisfaction ratings.
Jointly, Nitrado and Apex Hosting will strengthen their market position in the English speaking world, especially in the USA. Furthermore, Apex Hosting will support Nitrado to bring its marketing activities to the next level while Nitrado will serve as an infrastructure provider to Apex Hosting. Both companies follow a customer-centric approach which will lead to a better customer experience based on customer support, DDoS protection and optimized user panels.
