Alder’s portfolio company Insort joins forces with TriVision

Kirchberg, Austria – April 24th 2025

TriVision Joins Forces with Insort and Qcify to Advance Food
Packaging Inspection, Food Inspection, and Food Sorting Backed by Alder.

TriVision, a Danish company recognized for its leading vision technology and intuitive vision systems and software for quality inspection in the food industry, now joins forces with Insort and Qcify as strategic partners in food sorting and inspection. This partnership reinforces a shared vision of driving technological innovation and automation in food processing and quality control through advanced vision solutions. The collaboration is backed by Alder, a Nordic financial investor known for its focus on sustainable technology investments.

A Strong Partnership for tSince it was founded in 2015, Qcify has revolutionized automated quality control with its AI-driven inspection systems, enabling food producers to ensure consistent product quality with greater efficiency. This approach enables Qcify to continuously enhance its sorting and grading algorithms at a faster pace than traditional methods, providing significant benefits to clients.he Future of Food Safety

A Stronger Partnership for the Future of Food Safety

With over two decades of experience in visual inspection systems, TriVision helps food manufacturers ensure consistent quality and reduce waste through real-time decision-making and data-driven insights. Since 2015, Qcify has revolutionized automated quality control with its AI-driven inspection systems. Since 2011, Insort has pioneered Chemical Imaging Technology (CIT®), offering hyperspectral real-time analysis at a molecular level.

The collaboration now offers a fully integrated approach to food inspection and sorting. By combining TriVision’s advanced vision solutions, Qcify’s AI automation, and Insort’s chemical imaging, the group accelerates the development of smart, safe, and sustainable food processing technologies.

With Alder’s investment, Insort and Qcify will now work together on joint solutions to offer a fully integrated approach to the food processing industry. By merging Insort’s expertise in advanced chemical imaging and hyperspectral sorting with Qcify’s AI-powered automation, both companies will optimize food production processes worldwide, enhancing food safety, quality, and yield while significantly reducing food waste.

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Statements from the Leadership Team

“With the addition of TriVision to our group, we continue to strengthen our commitment to sustainable food production. The combined expertise of TriVision, Qcify, and Insort creates a powerful platform for the future of intelligent food processing.”

says Dag Broman, Partner at Alder

“TriVision joining the group marks another exciting step in our mission to push the boundaries of food inspection and remain the leading provider of inspection solutions. Together, we can drive innovation and expand our market presence on a much greater scale.”

says Jesper Bach, CEO of TriVision

“We welcome TriVision as the next strategic partner in our collective journey. Their outstanding technological know-how complements and enhances our efforts to deliver unique, intelligent inspection solutions that shape the future of food safety and efficiency.”

says Matthias Jeindl, Founder of Insort

Building the Future of Food Processing

This strengthened partnership represents a key milestone in Alder’s long-term strategy to build a robust ecosystem of technology-driven companies focusing on vision-based automation in the food industry. By leveraging the combined strengths of TriVision, Qcify, and Insort, the group aims to create the most advanced, sustainable, and intelligent food processing solutions on the market. Together we will help shape a smarter, safer, and more sustainable future for the food industry.

TriVision, Qcify, Insort, and Alder: Together for a smarter, safer, and more sustainable food industry.

About TriVision

Founded in 2000, TriVision offers leading machine vision technology to automate inspection processes in the food and pharma industries. The user-friendly systems inspect both products and packaging in production plants worldwide. TriVision is a market leader in turnkey vision inspection solutions capable of inspecting both seals and labels on packaging.

About Qcify

Established in 2015, Qcify specializes in automated quality control solutions for the global food industry. The company develops AI-powered inspection systems that ensure consistent, objective, and high-speed quality assessments. Qcify’s smart solutions reduce human error, increase efficiency, and provide food producers with the highest level of accuracy in quality assurance.

About Insort
Founded in 2011, Insort is a global leader in food sorting and inspection technology. The company pioneered Chemical Imaging Technology (CIT®), which enables real-time, hyperspectral analysis of food products, ensuring superior quality control and safety. Insort’s solutions help food processors worldwide minimize waste, improve efficiency, and enhance food safety.

About Alder

Alder is a Nordic investment firm dedicated to supporting technology-driven businesses that contribute to a sustainable future. The firm focuses on growth-oriented companies that provide innovative solutions in industrial automation, clean technologies, and resource efficiency. Alder actively invests in companies that have strong market potential and a clear vision for sustainability-driven impact..

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Alder’s portfolio company Insort joins forces with Qcify

Austria – Kirchberg, 25.3.2025 – Insort and Qcify are joining forces as strategic partners in food sorting and inspection, reinforcing their shared vision of driving technological innovation and automation in food processing through advanced vision solutions.

Qcify, a global leader in AI-driven quality control solutions, joins forces with Insort, a pioneer in hyperspectral imaging technology, to deliver cutting-edge inspection and sorting solutions for the food industry. Together, these companies will set new standards for food safety, efficiency, and waste reduction, combining their expertise to drive the next generation of intelligent food processing solutions.

A Strong Partnership for the Future of Food Safety

Since it was founded in 2015, Qcify has revolutionized automated quality control with its AI-driven inspection systems, enabling food producers to ensure consistent product quality with greater efficiency. This approach enables Qcify to continuously enhance its sorting and grading algorithms at a faster pace than traditional methods, providing significant benefits to clients.

Insort, founded in 2011, has pioneered Chemical Imaging Technology (CIT®), setting new benchmarks in food sorting and inspection. This groundbreaking hyperspectral technology provides real-time, molecular-level analysis of food products, ensuring unparalleled accuracy in detecting foreign materials and quality deviations.

With Alder’s investment, Insort and Qcify will now work together on joint solutions to offer a fully integrated approach to the food processing industry. By merging Insort’s expertise in advanced chemical imaging and hyperspectral sorting with Qcify’s AI-powered automation, both companies will optimize food production processes worldwide, enhancing food safety, quality, and yield while significantly reducing food waste.

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“By bringing Qcify’s and Insort’s expertise together, we strengthen our commitment to sustainable food production with cutting-edge technology, building a solid foundation for the next generation of food processing solutions”

says Dag Broman, Partner at Alder

“Qcify’s partnership with Alder and Insort marks a significant milestone, unlocking new opportunities to accelerate our growth and drive innovation in food processing as part of a unified group. As part of this collaboration, I will focus on expanding our group’s presence in the USA and forging global partnerships in the nut and dried fruit industry. Meanwhile, Pieter Ieven, who has successfully led our Applications team for years, will step into the role of CEO of Qcify”

says Raf Peeters, Founder of Qcify

“I’m excited to have received the trust from the entire group to lead Qcify as it starts its second decade. This partnership strengthens our ability to push the boundaries of quality control and inspection. By combining our expertise and resources, we are setting the stage for groundbreaking advancements that will benefit our customers and the industry as a whole”

says Pieter Ieven, incoming CEO of Qcify

“I am thrilled to welcome Qcify as the first new member of our collective vision to build a strong group of companies. Due to Qcify’s outstanding technological approach, we are substantially strengthening our offer to deliver unique solutions for our customers that not only enhance food quality but also redefine efficiency in the industry”

says Matthias Jeindl, Founder of Insort

Driving the Future of Food Processing

This strengthened partnership represents a significant milestone in Alder’s long-term strategy to build a robust ecosystem of technology-driven companies focusing on vision-based automation for the food industry. By leveraging the unique synergies between Qcify and Insort, the companies will develop even more sustainable, efficient, and intelligent solutions for food processing worldwide.

Qcify, Insort and Alder: Together for a smarter, safer, and more sustainable food industry.

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About Qcify

Established in 2015, Qcify specializes in automated quality control solutions for the global food industry. The company develops AI-powered inspection systems that ensure consistent, objective, and high-speed quality assessments. Qcify’s smart solutions reduce human error, increase efficiency, and provide food producers with the highest level of accuracy in quality assurance.

About Insort

Founded in 2011, Insort is a global leader in food sorting and inspection technology. The company pioneered Chemical Imaging Technology (CIT®), which enables real-time, hyperspectral analysis of food products, ensuring superior quality control and safety. Insort’s solutions help food processors worldwide minimize waste, improve efficiency, and enhance food safety.

About Alder

Alder is a Nordic investment firm dedicated to supporting technology-driven businesses that contribute to a sustainable future. The firm focuses on growthoriented companies that provide innovative solutions in industrial automation, clean technologies, and resource efficiency. Alder actively invests in companies that have strong market potential and a clear vision for sustainability-driven impact.

Alder invests in 3Button Group AB, a leading provider of advanced industrial automation solutions

Stockholm – March 14, 2025 – Alder, a Nordic investment fund focusing on the development of sustainable companies, has closed an investment in 3Button Group AB (“3Button Group” or the “Company”). Alder will become the majority owner of 3Button Group and has partnered with management and owners to continue the company’s growth journey.

Headquartered in Jönköping, Sweden, 3Button Group is a leading provider of industrial automation solutions, where robotics, mechanics and control systems are integrated to deliver focused solutions that automate and improve manufacturing processes. The Company consists of four subsidiaries focusing on different niches and solutions for general industrial automation, picking, packing and palletising, in-mould labelling, and with a proprietary AGV (“Automated Guided Vehicle”) for automated production environments.

Key investment attractions include 3Button Group’ strong track record, market position and competitive offerings in the industrial automation industry, a market that is expected to grow fuelled by megatrends such as the drive towards automation and digitalisation across industries, labour force shortages, nearshoring and customers’ increased focus on the green transition. 3Button Group’s solutions enable more efficient manufacturing, reduction of waste via optimised production, improved quality of end products, and saves energy via the Company’s solutions optimising the robot movements.

As the new majority owner, Alder will provide capital, expertise, and support to enable 3Button Group to accelerate its growth trajectory through continued investments in the organisation and to expand and broaden the Company to new automation solutions, segments and geographies through acquisitions and partnerships.

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“We are excited to partner with management and owners of 3Button Group. The company has a strong experience and expertise in an attractive market with positive future growth prospects. 3Button Group is, on basis of excellent customer relationships and competitive offerings, well positioned to capture organic as well as inorganic growth opportunities while further contributing to a green transition of industrial manufacturing processes”

says Henrik Blomé, Partner at Alder

“It is inspiring and exciting to welcome Alder as a new majority owner in our company! Alder shares our core values and beliefs and will partner with us to make it possible to raise our ambitions and aim for faster growth and a stronger development of 3Button Group into the future. In addition to continued organic growth for 3Button Group, we will also aim to grow through acquisitions and partnerships with other automation specialists that fit the 3Button Group’s strategy and philosophy and we very much look forward to the coming years”

says Thomas Rosell, CEO at 3Button Group

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About 3Button Group

3Button Group is headquartered in Jönköping, Sweden, and consists of four subsidiaries Front Automation, Fröjd Automation, IML Technologies and Front AGV. The Group provides specialised industrial automation solutions for customers within packaging, industrial manufacturing, food and other market segments.

For more information, visit www.3bg.se.

About Alder

Alder is a Nordic investment fund with the goal of creating the best possible conditions for long-term development of sustainable technology and services companies. With a mix of industrial and financial expertise and with the interest in entrepreneurship as a driving force, Alder creates profitable growth in close companionship with our companies.

In the beginning of October, the Alder team gathered for an impactful two-day executive meet-up, dedicated to addressing critical strategic matters, exchanging insights, and fostering a spirit of idea-sharing. We focused on making these sessions both productive and enjoyable, all with an eye on the future.

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r2pTracking and SkyCom join forces to establish EcoMobility Group

Viborg/Niederdonven – April 14th, 2023 – r2pTracking ApS (”r2pTracking”) in Denmark together with SkyCom S.à r.l. (”SkyCom”) in Luxembourg have announced to join forces to establish a new pan-European company within the telematics industry named EcoMobility Group.

SkyCom is the leading telematics solution provider in Luxembourg, established in 1994 by Claude Lenert in Niederdonven as one of the first telematics companies in Europe. The company has been on the leading edge of innovation and quality-focused, sustainable, fleet management services. SkyCom has evolved over the years and is today employing more than 35 people and reaching more than 1,400 customers in Luxembourg and the greater region.

“Being the founder of SkyCom, I had to start thinking about the future for the company, our employees, our customers, and about my personal future. Together with Bernd Junk, having worked for SkyCom for more than 20 years and as CEO since 2019, and Bjarne Nielsen as a business parter from Denmark, we started to make plans for deeper collaboration. We identified Alder, a Nordic investment fund based in Stockholm, who have a strong mission and track record in developing sustainable technology companies, to finance our merger. I am excited to be a part of this continued journey as a co-owner and look forward to the future achievements of the EcoMobility Group.”

says Claude Lenert, founder of SkyCom

“I look forward to continuing building on the last 25 years with SkyCom as a partner under the EcoMobility Group. We see strong synergies in combining our forces and strengthening our product and services offering to our combined customer base of 8,000 customers.”

says Bjarne Nielsen, CEO of r2pTracking

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About EcoMobility Group

EcoMobility Group is a SaaS and telematics solution provider that enables businesses to operate their vehicles and assets in a more sustainable and profitable way. The Group is a result of the merger of r2pTracking ApS (”r2pTracking”) in Denmark and SkyCom S.à r.l. (”SkyCom”) in Luxembourg with ca. 70 FTEs and 8,000 customers combined.

For more information, visit www.ecomobility.com

Alder has acquired r2pTracking, an innovative provider of software solutions within vehicle telematics and fleet management

Stockholm – January 3rd, 2023 – Alder II AB (“Alder”), a Nordic investment fund focusing on the development of sustainable companies, has acquired all the shares in r2pTracking ApS (“r2pTracking” or the “Company”) from r2p Group GmbH. Alder will become majority owner of r2pTracking and will partner with the founder and Board to continue the growth journey of the Company.

r2pTracking, founded in 1997, provides proprietary developed hardware-enabled software solutions within vehicle telematics and fleet management solutions in Denmark. The Company is headquartered in Viborg, Denmark, with 31 employees and has a track record of profitable growth with annual turnover of ca. 40 MDKK and ca. 45,000 connected devices across a variety of customer segments.

The telematics industry is fuelled by fundamental growth drivers and need of operational efficiency, regulatory requirements, the insurance industry as well as increasing environmental focus. The industry offers attractive business fundamentals with recurring revenues and high customer stickiness. The environmental benefits are related to reduced fuel emissions by optimising driver routes, predicting traffic, and visualising and analysing driving habits.

“We know the Company and team well from before and are very much looking forward to partner up with Bjarne Nielsen and his team again. As the new majority owner, Alder will provide capital and experience to support the Company to accelerate its growth journey through geographical expansion, M&A and further developments of the organisation and competitive offering.”

says Keiward Pham, Investment Director at Alder

“I am looking forward to working with Alder again and getting full focus on what we do best – namely tracking, fleet management and operational efficiency. At the same time, we look forward to taking an even bigger step into the European market. I would like to take this opportunity to thank r2p Group, and in particular Flemming Kær, for 9 years of good cooperation.”

says Bjarne Nielsen, CEO of r2pTracking

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About r2pTracking ApS

r2pTracking, founded in 1997, is a GPS tracking and fleet management provider that supplies proprietary developed hardware-enabled software solutions for a wide range of customer needs. The Company has grown into one of the largest telematics providers in Denmark following a strong focus on organic growth coupled with recent acquisitions and has today ca. 45,000 connected devices across a variety of customer segments.

For more information, visit www.r2ptracking.dk

About Alder

Alder II AB is a Nordic investment fund with AUM amounting to SEK 1.5 bn and with the goal of creating the best possible conditions for long-term development of sustainable technology and services companies. With a mix of industrial and financial expertise and with the interest in entrepreneurship as a driving force, Alder creates profitable growth in close companionship with our companies.