Nexway

CONNECT & MONETIZE THE DIGITAL WORLD

Nexway empowers companies to monetize their digital businesses and connect companies to the worldwide digital market and is now being fully integrated into the new asknet / Nexway Group.
Founded in 2002, Nexway has enjoyed rapid growth, thanks to strong and diversified partnerships. Based in Paris – La Défense, France, the company has subsidiaries in the USA, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Spain, Morocco, Poland, and Japan. Leading companies who rely on Nexway include retailers FNAC-Darty™, Yahoo! Japan™, Softwareload™, Amazon™, Medion™; and publishers Kaspersky Lab™, Adobe™, 2K Games™, Big Fish™, ESET™, Avast Software™ and many others around the world. Now part of the asknet /Nexway Group, it preserves all of its operations in Paris, Nîmes, and Katowice.

  • 2019

    • asknet AG and Nexway are becoming one leading Global Commerce-as-a-Service platform and Merchant services provider. Two strong players in global digital commerce are now becoming one group, one multinational team, and a force to be reckoned with in the digital transformation of consumer experience!

  • 2018

    • Nexway enters into strategic partnership with asknet AG which signed a purchase agreement to acquire 100% of of Nexway Group AG, the 100% owner of Nexway SAS, based in Paris – La Défense, France. The goal of this transaction is to create a dynamic, cutting-edge and well-funded market leader in the ecommerce services business with a diverse portfolio of clients from software vendors, to gaming companies and digital marketplaces.
    • Nexway, 22nd in the ranking of French Tech companies FW500 Edition 2018, organized by Frenchweb.fr magazine.
    • Nexway celebrates 12 years partnership with the cyber-security leader Kaspersky Lab
    • Nexway is consolidating its sales and marketing strategies and expanding to new markets & verticals.
    • Nexway imagined for Gamesload a complete package for the development and implementation of the “Games Pass” service. This subscription and non-binding service is designed to attract, retain and re-engage with customers by focusing on promotional offers, launch plans for events and new products.

  • 2017

    • Appointment of Renaud Sibel as CEO. Gilles Ridel becomes Chairman of the Supervisory Board.
    • Launch of Nexway’s Monetize solution – Business platform entirely based on a micro-services API architecture.
    • Launch of the “Nexway Smart Replay” service based on artificial intelligence to optimize cart conversion and payment authorizations.
    • Neway signs partnership with Razer TM to launch the global Razer Digital Game Store.
    • Nexway’s turnover exceeds €125 million.

  • 2015-2016

    • Nexway wins the “Grand Prix des Entreprises de Croissance”
    • 300 payment methods supporting 110 currencies with smart routing capabilities
    • 25M digital products delivered for over 4M paying transactions
    • Over 500K yearly customer interactions and over 200M emails sent

  • 2013-2014

    • Nexway wins the 2014 Red Herring Top 100 Global
    • Revenue passes the 100M€ mark
    • 900 customers, 670 Android and PC publishers, 230 online retailers and OEMs

  • 2012

    • Significant international B2C sales expansion in Europe and the Americas
    • Opening of the Polish subsidiary
    • Revenue passes the 60 M€ mark

  • 2011

    • Round C financing with BPIFrance and IDInvest to support international expansion
    • Acquires Degica™ (formerly CoGen), to expand in Japan and other key Asian markets

  • 2010

    • Round C financing with BPIFrance and IDInvest to support international expansion
    • Acquires Degica™ (formerly CoGen), to expand in Japan and other key Asian markets

  • 2008-2009

    • Acquires Key Technology™ (Germany) and Pepita™ (France)
    • Acquires Boonty™ to add casual gaming to its offering
    • Ranked in the Top 10 of the Technology Fast 50 Deloitte Awards
    • New partnerships with T-Online™, Amazon™ and Orange™

  • 2006-2007

    • Round B financing with Turenne Capital, XAnge PE and CM-CIC Private to fund European expansion
    • Nexway becomes becoming the first authorized digital distributor of Microsoft™ products in Western Europe
    • Starts selling in Italy, Spain and Portugal
    • Acquisition of Dlgamer™

  • 2005

    • Nexway diversifies its offering with games
    • Round A financing with Turenne Capital Partners & Xange PE

  • 2003-2004

    • Starts a partnership with Kaspersky Lab™ in France
    • Monetization business scales up driven by the increased use of internet

  • 2001-2002

    • Nexway is founded in 2002 as Telechargement.fr™ by Gilles Ridel
    • Empowers its first marquee customer, France Telecom™ / Wanadoo™, indirect catalog and cart solutions