Y Soft Explained

Y Soft Corporation
Foundation:2000
Location City:Brno
Location Country:Czech Republic
Area Served:Worldwide
Industry:Software and Electronics Hardware
Products:YSoft SAFEQ Enterprise Workflow Platform (SAFEQ 6), YSoft SAFEQ Cloud, YSoft OMNI Bridge, YSoft Clerbo, and YSoft Be3D eDee Print Management
Num Employees:400+

Y Soft Corporation is a multinational software and electronic hardware company founded in 2000, which operates in 21 countries. The company's headquarters are in Brno, Czech Republic, with offices in France, Hungary, Denmark, Israel, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, United States, Japan, Singapore, Australia, and China.

Y Soft Ventures, the company's in-house venture arm, was established in 2014 as a way for the two co-founders to support other Central European entrepreneurs looking to start their own companies with business and financial support.

Products

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History

Y Soft was co-founded in 2000 by Václav Muchna, CEO and chairman of the board,[2] and Martin de Martini, now chief information officer and board member,[3] as part of a student project with Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Muchna left university and started Y Soft a month after his 20th birthday.[4]

Y Soft's first expansion was the opening of an office in Hungary. In 2008, Y Soft acquired XpertImage, resulting in the establishment of Y Soft North America in Grapevine, Texas,[2] and new offices in Japan and Israel. In 2012, Y Soft filed and received a US patent for a "System for scalable processing of files in the cloud".[5] The following year, the company expanded into Australia with the acquisition of Equitrac Systems, and also established an office in Dubai.[2] [6] In 2014, Y Soft created an in-house venture capital fund, Y Soft Ventures, to invest in Central European startups.[7]

In late 2014 Y Soft invested a stake in, and later fully acquired, the Czech 3D printer company BE3D.[1] [8] Soon after, YSoft SAFEQ was integrated with the be3D printers to create a new product, YSoft BE3D eDee, a 3D printer integrated with YSoft SAFEQ providing print management, workflow and an accounting system.[6] In 2015, Y Soft started offering print management and document capture as software as a service (SaaS) by subscription.[2]

In 2016 the company established YSoft Labs, an internal innovation center focusing on artificial intelligence, robotics, business processes and future developments in 3D printing.[3] [9] In July 2016 the YSoft SAFEQ version 6 was introduced as a platform.[6] [10]

In Autumn 2016 YSoft released its Global Operational Excellence (GOE) Framework,[11] a set of processes and tools that facilitates deployment of YSoft SAFEQ for large international customers.

In 2016, Y Soft joined the Mopria Alliance. In 2017 YSoft SAFEQ became the de facto Mopria certified enterprise print server for printing from Android mobile apps.[12] The company also opened offices in the UK.

In 2016, Y Soft released Clerbo, an application serving as a document management system and a process tool. The product evolved into an employee lifecycle tool and Learning Experience Platform (LXP) for pre- and onboarding, learning and development, and offboarding. In 2017 Y Soft opened an office in China and moved its manufacturing facility to larger premises.[13]

In 2019 Y Soft launched BE3D Academy, part of its YSoft BE3D eDee 3D printing education platform, containing resources related to 3D printing for use by teachers.[14]

Since 2020, Y Soft has been on the board of the United States Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic. A representative of the company was a board member between 2020 and 2022 and vice president from 2022.

In 2022, Y Soft launched AIVA, a product branch designed for automated testing and device interaction for embedded systems, mobile apps, and devices, using robotic technology, computer vision, and machine learning to give evaluate product quality and user experience.[15]

In 2022, Y Soft acquired the Danish cloud print company EveryonePrint, procuring a new office in Copenhagen. Using software acquired from EveryonePrint, Y Soft launched two subscription-based cloud print services, SAFEQ Cloud and SAFEQ Managed.[16] Following the acquisition, former EveryonePrint CEO Tavs Dalaa became the new Chief Technology Officer of Y Soft.

Awards

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. News: 7 November 2014 . Y Soft Acquires 51% Share in Czech 3D Printer Maker be3D . 3Ders.org .
  2. News: Henry. Zoe. How This Co-Founder Emerged From Communist Rule and Launched a $30 Million Business. 7 September 2016. inc.com.
  3. News: CIO Spotlight: Martin de Martini, Y Soft Corporation. CIO.com. 20 July 2018.
  4. News: Mitra. Sramana. Bootstrapping to $30 Million from Czech Republic: Vaclav Muchna CEO of Y Soft. One Million By One Million. 10 April 2017. 6 August 2018.
  5. Krajicek; Ondrej, de Martini; Martin, Assignee: Y Soft Corporation, a.s. (Brno, CZ) System for scalable processing of files in the cloud, 12 May 2015, U.S. Patent 9,030,688
  6. News: YSoft SafeQ: An Open Source Platform for Enterprise Office Solutions; New Platform Includes Full Document Capture and Integrates with 3D Printers. Open Source Magazine. 22 March 2016.
  7. News: Clawson. Trevor. Czech Tech - Why Enterprise Solutions Company Y Soft Moved Into Venture Capital. Forbes. 16 June 2017.
  8. News: Czech Companies be3D and Y Soft to Grow Together: Y Soft Invests and Acquires Stake in be3D. 3DPrint.com. 6 November 2014.
  9. News: Molitch-Hou. Michael. Y Soft Launches Y Soft Labs. 3D Printing Industry. 23 February 2016.
  10. News: Cullen. Scott. Y Soft Reimagines Print Management and 3D Printing. Cannata Report. 23 March 2016.
  11. Web site: 15 October 2016. Y Soft Introduces Global Operational Excellence (GOE) Framework, an Industry First For Print Management and Document Workflow. 2 March 2021. The Imaging Channel. en-US.
  12. News: Wirth. Terry. YSoft SafeQ is the First Mopria Certified Enterprise Print Server. Wirth Consulting. 29 November 2017.
  13. News: Sedlák. Jan. Y Soft opens new production facility in Brno. LupaCZ. 20 October 2017.
  14. News: Saunders. Sarah. Y Soft Launches be3D Academy for Educators . 3D Printing. 25 November 2019.
  15. Web site: YSoft AIVA Introduction Video . Industry Analysts, Inc..
  16. News: Heiss . Elke . 6 July 2022 . Y Soft Acquires EveryonePrint . Y Soft News .
  17. Web site: 2010 Businessman of the Year. Podnikatelroku.cz.
  18. Technology Entrepreneur of the Year 2010: Václav Muchna – Y Soft Corporation, a.s.. Ernst & Young. 16 February 2011.
  19. News: Votruba. Ondrej. The most significant investors of 2013 recognised at Žofín Palace in Prague. Czech Focus. 2 October 2014.
  20. News: The Difference Makers: Celebrating People Making a Difference in the Document Imaging Industry. 1 May 2016. ENX magazine.
  21. Web site: 'Ones to Watch' European Business Awards. 2017/2018. 25 July 2018.
  22. News: Usela. Jan. Americans Appreciate Vaclav Muchna, He Built a Global Business From a Student Project. 16 November 2018. Hospodářské Noviny.
  23. Web site: YSoft SafeQ 6 chosen by Buyers Lab (BLI) as Outstanding Enterprise Print. 17 January 2020.
  24. Web site: May 2019 . The 2019 Difference Makers of the Office Technology Universe . ENX Magazine.
  25. Web site: Flanick . Deanna . 21 November 2019 . Document Imaging Solutions Recognized as Award Winners by Keypoint Intelligence - Buyers Lab . Keypoint Intelligence.
  26. Web site: Trim . Neil . 8 December 2021 . The Winners of The 2021 PRINT IT Awards are . Print IT Reseller.
  27. Web site: October 2022 . 2022 MPSA Leadership Awards . MPSA.

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