Solvares

Profile

Solvares is a leader in appointment-centric field service management (FSM) software to mid-market and enterprise clients across DACH and the UK, and also provides field sales management and logistics software. Totalmobile is a UK-based leader in FSM software with a focus on mobile- and asset-centric use cases to midmarket and enterprise clients across the UK, Canada, and Australasia. In February 2026, Solvares and Totalmobile merged to create a comprehensive international provider of field service and workforce optimisation technology.

Building on more than three decades of industry experience across both organisations, the combined business employs more than 800 people and supports over 4,000 customers spanning sectors including emergency services, health and social care, housing, facility management, telecommunications, infrastructure, engineering, IT, and logistics, supporting organisations that rely on field workforces to deliver essential services.

The combined entity has a significant presence in the UK and Germany, and operates across Europe and Australasia.

Management Buyout

Majority investment of DBAG Solvares Continuation Fund

First invested

December 2024 (2018-2024 via DBAG ECF III)

Revenues 2025 (preliminary)

€134mn

As of 31 March 2026

Contact

Ragnar Geerdts

Managing Director

Ragnar Geerdts joined Deutsche Beteiligungs AG in 2012 and became a Managing Director in 2017.

Ragnar Geerdts has over 13 years of experience in private equity. He has extensive knowledge of the automotive supplier and telecommunications industries and in mechanical and plant engineering. He was involved in numerous investments and disinvestments and led the investment process in in-tech, vitronet, netzkontor, von Poll Immobilien, BTV Multimedia, Solvares, DING and DGA. In these companies he sits on the advisory councils. Before joining Deutsche Beteiligungs AG Ragnar Geerdts worked in the area of M&A at Bayer AG and at Deutsche Post AG.

He holds a degree in Business Administration from Freie Universität Berlin, and also studied at the Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Current portfolio companies

AOE Netzkontor Solvares von Poll Immobilien

Former portfolio companies

in-tech

Deutsche Giga Access

BTV Multimedia

vitronet

+49 69 95787-172

ragnar.geerdts@dbag.de

Julian Nahm

Managing Director

Julian Nahm joined Deutsche Beteiligungs AG in 2018.

He has twelve years of experience in the private-equity and M&A sector. Prior to joining DBAG, he worked at the British private equity company Cinven. He began his career at Goldman Sachs, working in the area of investment banking.

Julian Nahm holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, and a Master of Science in Finance from the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. He also studied at the USC Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California.