Netzwerk für Menschen

What Netzwerk für Menschen does

Netzwerk für Menschen is a Schwerin, Germany-based integrated care and welfare network legally organized under SOZIUS Pflege- und Betreuungsdienste Schwerin gGmbH, affiliated with the Diakonie (Protestant welfare organization). The network operates 14 stationary care facilities, ambulatory services, day and short-term care, assisted living, a dementia center (Zentrum Demenz), a hospice (Hospiz am Aubach, founded 2011), children's and youth welfare residential groups (SOZIUS Kinder- und Jugendhilfe, originating with the 1945 Demmlerhaus), and specialized coma and ventilation care. It employs approximately 850 people and serves around 1,040 residents and patients daily, making it one of the largest employers in Schwerin.

The organization's core technology deployment is the voize voice-based AI documentation app for nursing staff, which converts smartphone speech input into structured care records using on-device speech recognition for GDPR compliance. The application was selected via employee vote in November 2024, piloted from October 2025 across four teams, and expanded to five additional facilities in March 2026 with ESF+ co-financing. Reported outcomes include ~45 minutes per day in documentation time savings per nursing staff member.

Revenue derives primarily from regulated German care insurance (Pflegeversicherung) reimbursement for stationary and ambulatory elderly care, supplemented by hospice, youth welfare, and dementia services, plus ancillary streams from ASG professional catering (events up to 300 persons) and in-house vocational training programs for nursing professionals. The go-to-market is direct service delivery through owned facilities in Schwerin, with talent acquisition supported by job fairs (JUMPIN, vocatium, Jobmesse), Job-Dating events, the Erasmus Partner Program (founded 2018), and active international recruitment across multiple countries. The legal entity is a gGmbH (non-profit limited company) with no external private equity or venture capital ownership disclosed.

Name

Netzwerk für Menschen

Legal name

SOZIUS Pflege- und Betreuungsdienste Schwerin gGmbH

Website

https://netzwerk-fuer-menschen.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1945

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Netzwerk für Menschen is a Schwerin-based Diakonie-affiliated care network operating 14 stationary facilities, hospice, dementia, and youth welfare services for ~1,040 residents daily with ~850 staff, integrating the voize AI voice-documentation tool across its nursing operations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare and Social Care Services

NAICS

Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly (623312), Nursing and Residential Care Facilities (623), Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (624120), Other Residential Care Facilities (62399), Continuing Care Retirement Communities and Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly (6233)

SIC

Services-Nursing & Personal Care Facilities (8050), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Assisted Living with Enhanced Care / High-Acuity (Aging-in-Place) (HLADABAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Care Navigation & Service Coordination (Medical, Social, Community) (HSABAIAB), Housing & Placement Coordination (Assisted Living, Memory Care, SNF) (HSABAIAL), In-Home Hospice Physician / Nurse Practitioner Visits (HSABAFAM), Elder Services & Aging Support (BPAGAEAF), Chronic Care & Complex Care Management (HSABAIAD)

Keywords

• Elderly care services
• Nursing care
• Youth welfare services
• Dementia care
• Hospice care

Headquarters

HQ city

Schwerin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Elderly Care and Nursing Services: Revenue from operating nursing homes, assisted living facilities, short-term care, day care, outpatient care services, and hospice care. The network comprises 14 stationary care facilities serving nearly 1,000 people daily.
2. Catering Services: ASG mbH provides professional catering for events with up to 300 persons, including the 'Parkcafé am Lewenberg' venue for company or private events up to 50 persons.
3. Training and Education: Revenue from vocational training programs for nursing professions, including apprenticeship programs for nursing specialists and nursing assistants.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Netzwerk für Menschen operates a regional non-profit care and welfare network in Schwerin, Germany, running 14 stationary elderly care facilities serving around 1,000 people daily. Beyond residential elderly care, it offers children's and youth welfare services (SOZIUS Kinder- und Jugendhilfe), a dementia center (Zentrum Demenz), a hospice (Hospiz am Aubach), assisted living, coma/ventilation specialist care, and ASG Profi-Catering for institutional catering.

Product overview

Netzwerk für Menschen is a comprehensive social care network combining elderly care, youth welfare, and specialized care services under one umbrella. The organization operates 14 elderly care facilities serving approximately 1,000 people daily, children's and youth welfare services through SOZIUS, the Zentrum Demenz dementia center, and Hospiz am Aubach hospice. The core product portfolio includes stationary and ambulatory nursing care, assisted living, day and short-term care, specialized coma and ventilation care, social-pedagogical residential youth groups, and palliative hospice services. The network also includes voize, a voice-based AI documentation system for nursing care, as an innovative technology product. Supporting offerings include professional catering, corporate publications (Albatros magazine), an employee blog, and career/training programs. The organization employs approximately 850 people across its facilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• voize: AI-powered voice documentation app for nursing care, enabling speech-to-text documentation on smartphones for care workers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Time savings of nearly 45 minutes per day for care workers through voize voice documentation

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability4 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Erasmus Partner (Wouter Groet)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Erasmus Partner Program facilitating international exchange for students and career starters through mobility projects. The collaboration enables young people from European countries to complete internships at Netzwerk für Menschen facilities. Over 800 participants from 7 countries have completed internships through various companies. Founded by Wouter Groet in 2018 to create a platform for young people to gain international experience.
• voizecoreTechnology or Integrationvoize is a voice-based AI documentation app for nursing care that enables speech-to-text documentation directly on smartphones. The speech recognition occurs on-device (not cloud), ensuring GDPR compliance. The network introduced voize following employee voting at a Future Conference in November 2024, with implementation beginning October 2025 after financing was secured.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Diakonie Deutschland: The national umbrella organization of Protestant welfare services in Germany. Netzwerk für Menschen is affiliated with Diakonie, making it a direct member of this broader network; comparable in mission, faith-based welfare orientation, and service breadth across care, youth welfare, and social services.
• Caritas: Germany's largest Catholic welfare organization operating stationary care, hospice, youth welfare, and social services. Comparable to Netzwerk für Menschen in mission, faith-based identity, comprehensive service offering, and reliance on German care insurance reimbursement.
• Malteser: Catholic-affiliated welfare organization operating hospice, stationary care, and ambulatory care services across Germany. Comparable in faith-based welfare identity, hospice care delivery, and reliance on the German Pflegeversicherung reimbursement framework.
• AWO (Arbeiterwohlfahrt): Major German welfare organization operating elderly care facilities, youth welfare services, and social support across multiple regions. Comparable in mission, non-profit welfare identity, and integration of care services across the life cycle.
• Korian Deutschland: European care home operator with significant German footprint in stationary care and assisted living. Comparable in stationary care delivery model and German Pflegeversicherung dependency, but operating at national scale across multiple regions.
• Johanniter Unfall-Hilfe: German welfare organization affiliated with Protestant orders that operates regional care facilities, hospice services, and youth welfare programs. Comparable in faith-based welfare orientation, stationary care operations, and hospice delivery model.

Direct peers

• Kursana: German operator of stationary care facilities and assisted living communities. Directly comparable in core service offering (stationary elderly care, respite care, assisted living) and German regional care operator profile.
• Alloheim: One of Germany's largest private operators of stationary care facilities and assisted living communities. Directly comparable in core product offering (stationary elderly care, assisted living), though operating as a for-profit chain rather than a non-profit welfare network.
• Evangelische Heimstiftung: Protestant-affiliated non-profit operator of stationary care facilities across Baden-Württemberg. Closely comparable in faith-based welfare identity, non-profit gGmbH-style structure, and integrated elderly care service delivery.
• Home Instead Deutschland: Franchised senior home care provider in Germany offering ambulatory care services. Comparable in elderly care delivery model and target demographic, though focused on home-based rather than facility-based care.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/nfm.schwerin
• Instagraminstagram.com/netzwerkfuermenschen/?hl=de
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/netzwerk-f%C3%BCr-menschen

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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