Nexway
Nexway is a software and service company for ecommerce and payment.
| Industry | e-commerce ; payment ; digital distribution |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Karlsruhe - Germany, Karlsruhe , Germany |
Key people | Victor Iezuitov - Chief Executive Officer ; Norman Hansen - Chief Operating Officer ; Casey Potenzone - Chief Strategy Officer ; Delphine Weiskopf - SVP Product & Marketing ; Frédéric Ribau - Chief Technology Officer ; Christian Herkel - SVP Global Accounts - Boonty founder - Tomas Boonty |
| Owners | StockAccess Holdings SAS |
Number of employees | 180 |
| Website | https://www.nexway.com/ |
The Nexway group is the combination of French Nexway SASU and the German asknet AG, listed in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and now renamed into Nexway AG.
Nexway enables companies to sell their software and services online in more than 140 countries by connecting their e-store to its e-commerce and payment platform.
Nexway’s clients are Avast, Cyberlink, Eset, Fnac Darty, IObit, Kaspersky, Steinbergand Veepee.
Headquartered in Karlsruhe (Germany), and with offices in Paris and Nîmes (France), Katowice (Poland), Milan (Italy), Uster (Switzerland), San Francisco (USA), and Tokyo (Japan), the company has 180 employees and generated a 185M€ turnover in 2018.
History
asknet was founded in 1995 as a spin-off of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and specialized in software distribution for academics.
Nexway was created in 2002 to distribute software to consumers under Téléchargement.fr the brand (meaning “download” in French).
In January 2009, Nexway acquires Boonty (en), and enters the market of casual video games’ distribution.
Both companies then add new ecommerce services to their portfolio to help software companies sell online: shopping cart, payment processing, subscription management, customer care…
- In November 2017, the Swiss listed company TheNative SA enters the capital of asknet AG as majority shareholder.
- In January 2019, asknet AG acquires 100% of Nexway SASU.
- In July 2019 asknet AG renames into Nexway AG. Both companies operate under the same brand since then.
- In September 2019, TheNative SA sells its shares to the French holding company StockAccess Holdings SA which becomes the new majority shareholder holding 62.62% of Nexway AG.
Offer
- Nexway Monetize: payment and ecommerce platform to manage the shopping cart, handle payment in more than 140 countries, run subscriptions, invoicing, manage local tax and compliance to local regulations globally. The SaaS platform is based on microservices and APIs and is complemented by managed services such as customer care and marketing campaign management.
- Nexway Connect: a digital distribution network that connects software and video games publishers with popular online merchants. The Connect platform acts as a single point of channel management for software companies, and is a lever for audience monetization for merchants that can diversify their offer with a 7000+ titles catalog of ready-to-sell software and games.
- asknet academics: software distribution services for the academics world. With asknet academics, students and academic staff access a wide range of software at negotiated price through e-procurement portals that comply with the procurement policy of institutions.
Shareholders
- Nexway AG is listed on the Basic Board / Open Market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the trading symbol NWAY.
- The majority shareholder is StockAccess Holdings SA with 62.62% of shares.
- The minority shareholders are:
- Digital River Holding GmbH – 15.30%
- SoftBank Commerce & Service Corp. – 5.51%
- Unicredit – 3.00%