EOS Partners Acquires a Majority Stake in Drooms

Frank­furt am Main – Private equity inves­tor EOS Part­ners is the new majo­rity share­hol­der of the due dili­gence plat­form Drooms. As part of the tran­sac­tion, co-foun­­der and former co-CEO Jan Hoff­meis­ter will leave the company after 25 years. J.F. Müller & Sohn AG is also exiting the company’s share­hol­der base. Alex­andre Grel­lier will conti­nue to lead Drooms as CEO. 

In addi­tion to capi­tal, EOS brings, in parti­cu­lar, expe­ri­ence in scaling high-growth tech­no­logy compa­nies. The firm focu­ses on buil­ding Euro­pean growth compa­nies in the areas of soft­­wa­re/­­tech-enab­­led services, indus­trial tech, and health­care. Toge­ther with EOS, Drooms aims to further streng­then its market posi­tion, acce­le­rate its inter­na­tio­nal expan­sion, and conti­nue to drive digi­ta­liza­tion and AI-based auto­ma­tion throug­hout the entire tran­sac­tion process. The long-term goal is to become the leading Euro­pean plat­form for real asset investments. 

Drooms is built on a strong econo­mic foun­da­tion; as a result, it achie­ved record reve­nue and profits in 2024 and 2025 despite chal­len­ging times in the tran­sac­tion markets. In 2025, over­all growth of appro­xi­m­ately 20% was achie­ved, and recur­ring reve­nue (net reten­tion rate) also rose by 120%. 

“Choo­sing the right inves­tor was very important to us. We want to enter into a long-term growth part­ner­ship while uphol­ding our values, such as digi­tal sove­reig­nty, uncom­pro­mi­sing secu­rity, and EU-based data proces­sing. This model has been very successful and will now be scaled up in colla­bo­ra­tion with EOS Part­ners. This is evolu­tion in the fast lane, but not a revo­lu­tion. The fact that a German private equity firm is now inves­t­ing in a German tech­no­logy leader rounds out the big picture for us,” explains Alex­andre Grel­lier, CEO of Drooms.

“Drooms combi­nes tech­no­lo­gi­cal leader­ship, a strong AI product, and excep­tio­nally clear market posi­tio­ning,” says Phil­ipp Wege­ner, a part­ner at EOS. “The company is targe­ting a highly attrac­tive Euro­pean market with signi­fi­cant growth poten­tial. We look forward to support­ing Alex­andre Grel­lier and the entire team as they conti­nue on their growth trajectory.” 

Jan Hoff­meis­ter, co-foun­­der of Drooms and, along­side Alex­andre Grel­lier, the company’s former CEO, has deci­ded to leave the company follo­wing the invest­ment by EOS Part­ners and to devote hims­elf to perso­nal projects. “I’ve built Drooms toge­ther with Alex­andre over the past 25 years. Buil­ding Drooms has been an extra­or­di­nary entre­pre­neu­rial jour­ney for me. I look forward to conti­nuing to follow Drooms’ success from the side­lines,” explains Jan Hoffmeister. 

“Jan played a key role in deve­lo­ping the idea for Drooms and our plat­form back then. Toge­ther, we’ve worked for 25 years to bring the company to where it is today. I hope to conti­nue coun­ting on his advice. We will conti­nue to follow the path we have char­ted in recent years,” says Grel­lier. “I would also like to thank our long-stan­­ding part­ner and compa­n­ion, J.F. Müller & Sohn AG, for the past 15 years of excel­lent cooperation.” 

Drooms was advi­sed by Dr. Leube, Lead Part­ner at Simmons & Simmons, and Tobias Warkus, Mana­ging Direc­tor at Stifel Finan­cial Corp. EOS was advi­sed by GOF (Munich), NKF (Zurich), Altman Solon (Munich), Code&Co. (Berlin), KPMG (Munich), and EY (Stutt­gart, Zurich). 

About Drooms

Drooms is a leading Euro­pean plat­form that opti­mi­zes the prepa­ra­tion and execu­tion of tran­sac­tions for compa­nies in the real estate, corpo­rate finance, legal, and energy sectors. With more than two deca­des of expe­ri­ence and proprie­tary AI tech­no­logy, Drooms acce­le­ra­tes tran­sac­tions, auto­ma­tes work­flows, and ensu­res the highest level of confi­den­tia­lity as well as full GDPR compli­ance. With over 40,000 clients, inclu­ding Fortune 100 compa­nies such as the METRO GROUP, Evonik, JLL, JP Morgan, CBRE, UBS, Blackstone, KKR, Siemens, and Volks­wa­gen, Drooms has estab­lished itself as a trus­ted provi­der of busi­­ness-criti­­cal tran­sac­tion infra­struc­ture for real asset investments. 

About EOS Partners
EOS is a long-term private equity firm focu­sed on high-growth mid-market compa­nies in the soft­ware, tech-enab­­led services, indus­trial tech, and health­care sectors. EOS supports compa­nies in buil­ding sustainable market leaders by provi­ding stra­te­gic exper­tise, opera­tio­nal deve­lo­p­ment, and flexi­ble growth capital.