Ardian, a France-based global private investment firm, has acquired a majority stake in Pflegia, digital recruitment platform for healthcare professionals in Germany.
Founded in 2019, Pflegia addresses the structural healthcare staffing shortage through an AI-powered reverse-recruiting platform – leveraging the largest healthcare candidate database in Germany – enabling healthcare professionals to find their ideal positions faster and care providers to fill critical roles more efficiently.
In 2024, the company extended its reach across the German healthcare ecosystem with the launch of Praxia, a dedicated platform targeting medical and dental practice staff.
Ardian’s investment marks an important step in Pflegia’s growth.
Ardian’s experience scaling founder-led platforms across Europe, combined with their long-term, hands-on approach, “gives us exactly what we need to accelerate our growth internationally, deepen our AI capabilities, and bring Pflegia’s model to new markets,” said Lennart Steuer, Felix Westphal and Masoud Shahryari, co-founders, Pflegia.
The growth team at Ardian will support Pflegia’s management team across company strategy, platform development, organisational scaling, international expansion and external growth initiatives.
“We want to be the architects of Pflegia’s European growth story,” said Romain Chiudini and Geoffroy De La Grandière, managing directors Growth, Ardian.
Ardian team
Growth investment team: Romain Chiudini, Geoffroy de La Grandière, Pierre Schaeffer, Sophie Meyer
Financing team: Aris Toranian, Alessandro Palomba
Corporate lawyer: McDermott Will & Schulte (Diana Hund, Herschel Guez, Auriane Tournay, Benoît Maïto, Sebastian Bonk, Darius Mosleh, Côme de Saint Vincent, Fanny Le Pogam, Florian Schiefer)
Financing lawyer: McDermott Will & Schulte (Kalish Mullen, Stanislas Chenu, Zayd Boucharb)
Financial advisor: KPMG (Claus Buhmann, Thomas Weber, Alvaro Castano Martinez-Blay)
Commercial and technology advisor: Ommax (Isabella Calderon Hoyos, Paulina Stuhlmacher, Christian Riede, Tobias Möglich)
Legal and tax advisor: KPMG (Ian Maywald, Robert Müller, Fabian Böser, Ivonne Kiesow)
Pflegia team
Management team: Lennart Steuer, Felix Westphal, Masoud Shahryari
M&A advisor: Raymond James (Tobias Levedag, Nazar Tukhbatullin)
Corporate lawyer: Stolzenberg (Moritz Von Hutten)
Financial advisor: Rödl & Partner (Christoph Hinz, Christopher Wilcke, Kristina Willers)
Artemid
Financing team: Annie-Laure Servel, Constantin Kryvian, Alexander Ball, Gabriel Karsenty
Financing lawyer: Gide (Matthieu Herviaux, Nathalie Benoit, Karina Tepsaeva)
Press release: Ardian acquires a majority stake in Pflegia, Germany’s leading digital healthcare recruitment platform | Ardian
