Investors back Keros Digital

Keros Digital is being taken over by Polo Digitale, a holding company with headquarters in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia, and the Luxembourg fund Digital Native Capital. In addition, the e-commerce technology specialist based in Lugano will receive “substantial funds” from the two companies. This was reported both in the daily newspaper Corriere del Ticino and fashion Magazine from Milan.

The Distributed Order Management System software developed by Keros Digital provides solutions that simplify and optimize the management of e-commerce orders, sales, payment and tax aspects. “Keros is the kind of platform that has now become essential for advanced e-commerce projects,” explained Nicola Boni, CEO of Polo Digitale. “Keros counts Benetton, TwinSet, Cisalfa and the city of Lugano among its customers. All this informed our decision to invest together with Digital Native Capital.”

“This is a milestone for Keros,” said Marcello Nesta, General Partner of Digital Native Capital and interim CEO of Keros Digital, which was founded in 2014. “An operation that is not an end but a beginning towards highly ambitious international targets.”

The new course set for Keros will be defined by strategic partnerships. These will help develop the platform and augment this with additional functionalities. The implementation of the strategic plan will be overseen by Keros’ founder Leonardo Pecchioli as the CEO of the parent company Four Factory International, which was founded in Lugano three months ago.

According to Carlo Terreni, President of the Lifestyle-Tech Competence Center in Lugano, this takeover shows “that our region is the perfect place for not only working with an established company like Keros, but also enabling startups even in the early stages to develop and grow in a healthy and organic way and attract domestic and foreign investors”.