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e-Payment runs hot in European tech M&A

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chartDespite the usual seasonal slow-down in European TMT deal flow in August, which resulted in 25% fewer deals, there was an increase in the aggregate deal value from $18b in July to $25b according to latest data from corporate finance firm Regent Partners. The boost came from e-payment deals, two of which involved UK companies. Meanwhile, valuation multiples increased in the month with aggregate Price/Sales ratios rising to 1.3x from 1.2x in July and aggregate Price/EBITDA ratios at 11.4x up from 9.9x.

The largest deal in the sector (and in the month) was the acquisition of UK-based, Worldpay, by US-based Vantiv, for an enterprise value of £9.3b. Talks between the companies had been announced in July but the final agreement came in early August (see Worldpay and Vantiv seal the deal). In 2016, Worldpay's net revenue was £1.1b and underlying EBITDA was £468m. The combined company will be called Worldpay.

Meanwhile in July, Isle of Man based, London listed, payment solutions provider, Paysafe agreed to buy Delta Card Services, the holding company for Texas-based Merchants' Choice Payment Solutions (MCPS), for $470m. Then, in August, Paysafe accepted a £2.96 billion offer from private equity firms, Blackstone and CVC Capital Partners (see here). Such is life!

There’s much more on the payments sector for subscribers to the TechMarketView FinancialServicesViews research stream in our recent note, FintechViews: Why all the M&A in Payments?And subscribers to the TechMarketView Foundation Service can read our regular quarterly summaries of corporate activity in the UK software and IT services sector in IndustryViews Corporate Activity, or just search on ‘acquisition’ in theUKHotViews archive.


Micro Focus: consistent strategy, going with the money

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logoAt its Capital Markets Day just a few days post the close of the HPE Software deal, Micro Focus was finally able to talk about its plans. The scale of work facing the combined company is evident and the executive team is under no illusion about that but they have used the long acquisition process to good effect to get detailed plans in place.  

The key takeaway is that the Micro Focus strategy remains consistent. It has a proven operating model for rooting out returns from its scaling portfolio and for extracting value from acquisitions, while running a lean operating model. HPE Software is by far the largest to date but Micro Focus  has had  experience of managing the major Attachmate reverse takeover. Attachmate came with something like a 33% profit margin, HPE Software has been struggling with this line, notwithstanding its upshift from 17.8% to 24.9% in the latest results released earlier this week. Micro Focus maintains its intention to take margins to 40%+ and achieve a $600 EBITDA improvement.

Amongst the detailed plans for company and product development, one thing in particular caught our attention: the determination to go where the money is. Naturally, Micro Focus will be developing and investing in the portfolio but effort will go into identifying those features customers value and will pay for. While it has the resources to explore all manner of emerging technologies, it aims to keep developments aligned with the areas where enterprises will be actively spending. Whether this causes a clash with the HPE culture remains to be seen but there are plenty of suppliers already chasing emerging markets (and struggling to find revenue) while Micro Focus has quietly benefitted from addressing legacy value extraction and modernisation.

There was also a sense that Micro Focus will become much more opinionated. As new chief executive Chris Hsu commented, as the 7th largest pure play software company in world (up from 28th), it is too big not to make its views known.

Prowler.io secures £10m for intelligence for the physical world

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logoProwler.io may be very young (founded in January 2016) but it is growing up fast and having raised £1.5m funding last September, has developed sufficiently to attract another £10m in a round led by Cambridge Innovation Capital, along with Atlantic Bridge Capital and existing backers Passion Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners and SG Innovate.

What they are buying into with this Cambridge based youngster is machine intelligence/AI (who isn’t these days) powering a decision making platform. The difference, Prowler.io says, is that its system goes beyond the classification and perception of most offerings (e.g. image and speech recognition) to make ‘principled’ decisions based on those perceptions. We’re not clear what the ‘principled’ aspect really means but the company maintains that the use of flexible probabilistic models, Reinforcement Learning and Game Theory enables it to observe and predict the way agents (e.g. vehicles, drones, robots, characters in games and people) behave and interact. What that means is it can take on board data from its environment and use it to make micro decisions (e.g. the small adjustments necessary to keep a drone in flight) enabling it to function in dynamic environments. Although likely backed ended by a large dataset, it does not need to consider the many millions of data points a deep learning system would, to make a decision – specifically a micro decision.

It is machine intelligence for the dynamic, (mostly) physical world, that’s why it targets games, smart cities, robotic toys, autonomous vehicles, drones & robots. We need all sorts. 

Civica secures biggest ever contract

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Civica LogoCivica has won the largest contract in its history, securing a AUD$200m (c.£120m) contract with the State Government of Victoria’s Department of Justice and Regulation. The five-year deal, with the option to extend, is to support the administration of the State’s new fines system—it represents Civica’s first major BPO deal in Australia.

This is not the first contract that Civica has been awarded by Victoria; in November 2016, it won the contract to provide the Victorian Infringement Enforcement & Warrants (VIEW) platform. The platform is designed to increased citizen self-service and provide a more effective infringement enforcement processes. At the time this deal represented the largest contract that Civica had won (see Civica signs largest ever contract).

The new partnership is related to the work that Civica has been conducting for Victoria, but was separately procured. It will see Civica support the management and operations of the VIEW system and take on employees of the incumbent provider (Tenix Solutions) to support the introduction of the state’s Fines Reform Act 2014.

Australia is an increasingly important region for Civica. In 2016, Asia Pacific represented 17% of Civica’s turnover and at the end of the year it expanded its operations business in Australia and New Zealand, launching a dedicated business unit offering specialist software and services for organisations involved in community protection.

This is a good deal in what has been an exciting year for Civica. It announced 15 years of unbroken growth (see 15 years of growth for Civica), launched Civica Digital (see Civica launches into Digital), got acquired by Partners Group in a £1bn deal (see Partners Group: what next for Civica?) and has now secured the largest contract in its history.

CloudCall sees momentum in H1

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cloudcallFirst half results out today from CloudCall, which integrates its phone software into CRM systems, show the company is building momentum. Revenue was up 40% over the comparable period last year to £3.2m. Meanwhile, operating losses have reduced from £1.8m to £1.5m.

CloudCall can partly thank its relationship with CRM provider, Bullhorn, which has integrated the CloudCall service into c19% of its UK user base. CloudCall’s solution for Microsoft Dynamics is set to launch next month. This shows promise with CloudCall claiming there is “limited direct competition” for this type of integrated voice communications offering. 

In terms of direct sales, CloudCall signed a master services agreement with Manpower Group in June to have the voice software deployed throughout the Solihull office of the Experis brand – with apparent potential for this to be expanded further into the Manpower Group.

A growing pipeline of “near-term customer sales opportunities” combined with lower churn rates leads CloudCall to expect FY17 will be “at least in line with market expectations”.

CloudCall’s share price was up 1.7% at time of writing and has gained more than 70% in the year to date.

Rapid change sets PCI-PAL up for growth

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logoPCI-PAL, the customer engagement business which sold the major part of its revenue with its call centre operations last September and placed all its eggs in the secure payments basket, has reported on a very busy year. Revenue for the continuing operations to end June was up 70% to £1.9m but losses almost doubled, to £1.7m, as the company geared up for significant growth. Year-end cash was nearly £2m, with a further £3.3m to come in as part of a deferred payment on last year’s sale.

The market for secure payments technology is growing quickly, particularly as more business is done on-line and through call centres and as new standards and regulations arrive (principally the PCI DSS Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard and the General Data Protection Regulation). We have written extensively about the progress of Eckoh in this market.

PCI-PAL now seems to be getting a fair slice of the action, with 19 new contracts being signed during the year in the UK and a total of some 28 contracts waiting to go live. As with Eckoh, PCI-PAL see the US as a major opportunity and has established an operation there. To support growth the company has been building its list of sales partners and has invested in a new AWS-delivered cloud-based solution.

The new contracts should drive strong revenue growth in the current year and the management will be keen to ensure the smooth and rapid on-boarding of customers. One key success criterion will be how effectively PCI-PAL can increase share of wallet and turn relatively small contracts into bigger and more profitable ones. The recent list of contract wins includes some large organisations, both private sector multinationals and substantial public sector providers so the potential is there.

Recruiting for your business internationally (Sponsored Post)

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Spectrum Company LogoRecruiting executives for your organisation’s overseas operations can be time consuming, difficult to manage, and fraught with risk. Getting the culture fit right can be particularly challenging.

Spectrum, the retained technology sector search firm, is structured to enable clients to manage cross-border executive recruitment easily and accountably from the UK.

Spectrum RecruitmentAnd on 27-30 September in central London, we are able to offer technology organisations considering how they effectively recruit executives internationally, the opportunity to meet with our worldwide colleagues from Asia, the Americas and continental Europe.


To find out more, please visit www.spectrum-ehcs.com or contact the Managing Partner, Daniel Osmer at daniel.osmer@spectrum-ehcs.com

Seeing Machines eyes semi-autonomous future

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Seeing machines logoAIM-listed, Australia-headquartered, Seeing Machines, is a small company with big ambitions. In FY17 (to end June 2017) reported revenues were down 60% (due to a one-off license fee in 2016). But underlying revenues increased by 122% to $A13.6m.

The company’s roots lie in the mining industry (‘Off Road’) – where it had low volume, high-value business, and from where the one-off license fee with Caterpillar for an in-cab operator fatigue system stemmed. But Seeing Machines has spread its wings so that it is pursuing a “multi-pillar approach covering the major global transport sectors”. Those sectors include Fleet, Automotive, Rail and Aviation.

The biggest revenue contributor of the transport sectors is Fleet. In FY17, it achieved revenues of A$9.1m – almost tripling that achieved in 2016. The company’s Fleet Guardian System “uses advance computer vision technology to detect and minimise driver fatigue and distraction events and associated accidents in commercial fleet application”. It also uses some clever analytics to feed intelligence back to the fleet operator. Notably, Fleet won its first UK customer – Freshlinc – in April. And it expects to take on an additional business executive in the UK.

While Fleet remains the key growth driver, the Automotive business (just A$1.6m revenues) could hold the key to longer-term success. Seeing Machines is eyeing up opportunities related to semi-autonomous driving and is involved in an automated vehicle trial with a focus on driver behaviour and optimum human machine interfaces. With the current direction of travel in travel and transport this seems like a sensible step.

The company is in a strong cash position following a fundraise earlier in the year (A$22m in the bank, compared to $16m a year earlier). But it intends to invest $50m in its technology over the next couple of years. As such, as well as seeking out additional industrial partners (R&D, supply agreements etc.), it is also seeking further financial support. Everything is moving in the right direction. H2 vs. H1 sales were up 250%. And indirect operating expenses only rose from $32.5m to $37.1m in this reported period. Nonetheless, considering the work that needs to be done, its targets – to reach sub $A100m in revenues and EBITDA break-even by end FY19 – seem ambitious.


Servelec: H1 shows improvement, but outlook downgraded

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Servelec logoServelec Group surprised the market by releasing its H1 results a day early this morning and announcing a deferment of orders in some areas of the Automation business, which will reduce the anticipated growth for the full year. As a result, despite a return to growth and profit in the first half, Servelec’s shares are currently trading over 9% down on Friday’s close at 263p.

Overall, the results for the six months to 30 June show an improving picture after a gloomy 2016 (see here). Revenue increased by 11% - 2% on an organic basis - to £31.5m and underlying operating profit increased by 44% (20% organically) to £6.5m. Cash conversion was much improved on the prior period – up to 96% - and net debt fell to £6m at the end of June, compared to £13m in H116, with Servelec aiming to be debt-free by the end of the fiscal year.

Servelec is a ‘business of many halves’ with core business in health and social care, oil and gas, power and infrastructure and the water sector. Whilst this diveristy helps to spread risk, it also makes it very difficult to get all parts of the business firing on all cylinders at the same time.

This is evident in its H1 results which show Health & Social Care and Controls Oil & Gas making good progress, something that is expected to continue into H2 and beyond. (Note though that even within Health & Social Care there are diverse trends – the health business has been bolstered by the go-live of the new Oceano system at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Synergy is performing well in the Children’s Services market, but in Social Care sales are lagging expectations).

In contrast, Controls Power & Infrastructure has been under pressure as the nuclear market stalled and it was proposed that coal-fired power production be terminated by 2025. Moreover, orders have declined in Servelec Technologies (part of the Automation division), where projects related to Remote Telemetry Units (RTUs) have been deferred in light of legislative changes under the government’s ‘Open Water’ programme. This trend is expected to continue through the second half of the year and into 2018, impacting future growth. It also looks increasingly likely that Servelec will have to write-off a £2.6m debt related to a power project in Turkey.

Will you be there on 5 October?

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Preparations are now well under way for TechMarketView's big annual event on 5 October and time is running out to book your place - if you haven't already done so now is the time to do it! Click here to secure your place and join some two hundred CXOs from the world UK tech for an evening of analyst insight and first class networking with your peers over drinks and dinner.

Our annual flagship event, An Evening with TechMarketView is being held on Thursday 5th October 2017, in association with Sage, the market leader for integrated accounting, payroll and payment systems. 

We have an exciting evening of future-gazing planned, covering a vast spectrum of trends and issues that we believe will fundamentally determine the prospects for the UK tech market over the next several years. The entire TechMarketView analyst team will be on stage, though not all at the same time! They will share their views on what the future holds for tech suppliers – from startups to the beasts of the jungle – in a market where the difference between winning and losing has never been more finely balanced, and where customer loyalty is fast becoming a contradiction in terms.

The event commences at 6:30 pm with a welcome drinks reception and includes a sumptuous three-course meal and second drinks reception. During the course of the evening there will be plenty of opportunity for you to tap the brains of the TechMarketView analyst team, as well as meeting your peers in the industry.

An Evening with TechMarketView will be held at the magnificent premises of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) at 66 Portland Place, W1B 1AD. Tickets cost £425 for TechMarketView research subscription clients (£525 for everyone else).

For further details and to book places please visit the tx2Events website, or contact our event coordinator Tina Compton (tina.compton@tx2events.com). 

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Early exit for Capita CEO

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logoAndy Parker, CEO of UK software and IT/BP services (SITS) market leader Capita, is to step down on Friday, a little earlier than expected. He assumed the role in 2014. His departure was originally announced in March after Capita’s worst performance during the prior twelve months, including its first ever profit warning. There followed disposals of Capita’s public sector recruitment division (here) and, more significantly, its Asset Services unit (here) in early steps to rationalise Capita’s sprawling multi-sector business and IT services portfolio.

Capita Group Finance Director Nick Greatorex, will also assume CEO duties until Parker’s successor is appointed, which the received wisdom suggests will be announced in the next couple of months.

Earlier this month, Capita announced the adoption of accounting standard IFRS 15, which resulted in a restatement of its 2016 results, reducing headline revenues from £4.58b to £4.36b, and ‘underlying’ profit from £481m to £335m. Capita’s net assets, previously reported at £483m, were restated as net liabilities of £553m, mainly due to changes in revenue recognition and accrued income.

It goes without saying that Parker’s successor will have to be made of the ‘right stuff’. For pretty much the first 30 years of its existence, Capita was the beacon of financial performance, earning a coveted Holway Boring Award in 2012 recognising its unblemished EPS growth record since its 1989 IPO. It would be a gross exaggeration to say, ‘and then it all went horribly wrong’; it would be fairer to say that Capita got out of step with changing market conditions.

Nonetheless, Capita’s business is mainly built on long-term contracts in business process services, still the fastest growing segment of the UK SITS market, but also arguably the fastest changing. And therein lies the challenge.

Capita is due to report its half-time results in the next couple of weeks.

Factmata raises funds to tackle misinformation

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logoNow here’s an unusual application of machine intelligence: UK startup Factmata says it uses AI to tackle online misinformation. It will run a natural language processing ruler over statistical claims in digital media content – news, political transcripts and the like - to check out the facts. There are plans to expand the scope of the platform to detect fake news and track rumours and hoaxes. That is a big step up, requiring deeper insight into context and semantics as the targets for analysis become more loosely formed.

It is refreshing to see a different type of application for machine intelligence, which is no doubt why previously unknown 25-year-old co-founder Dhruv Gulati has secured seed funding of $575K from billionaire Mark Cuban, Zynga founder Mark Pincus, and Brightmail founder Sunil Paul. The company has machine intelligence credentials as the other co-founders are machine-learning specialists, UCL reader Sebastian Riedel and University of Sheffield lecturer Andreas Vlachos. The CTO is former Wikipedia search function developer Robert Stojnic. Factmata is also backed by the Google Digital News Initiative. It is operating in an area that is getting hotter: Facebook added misinformation alerts and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launched the community-powered news outlet Wikitribune earlier in 2017.

Factmata’s first product is expected to launch next year in the form of a news aggregator that will apply a quality score to content and provide links to relevant factual data. In time, it looks like there will be human/machine intelligence collaboration, with a community of users carrying out fact checking aided by machine intelligence.  

Harvey Nash adds digital colour with Crimson

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logoAIM-listed UK-headquartered international recruitment firm Harvey Nash has acquired Birmingham-based ‘digital’-focused IT recruitment and solutions company, Crimson, its first acquisition for three years. Harvey Nash will pay a maximum £15m cash (including earn-outs) for Crimson, which turned over £23.5m in its most recent FY (to 31st March 2017), and pre-tax profits of £1.7m, a 7% PBT margin. This compares with Harvey Nash’s 1% PBT margin, so that’s good news, then.

Harvey Nash has a relatively low profile in the IT recruitment sector, so Crimson looks a canny buy to improve its presence in the fast-growing ‘digital’ space.

LBB Evaluagent has US ambitions

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Evaluagent logoWhen we met Newcastsle-headquartered Little British Battler (LBB), Evaluagent– see LBB Evaluagent: happy staff equals happy customers and Little British Battler Report - LBB9– at the end of last year, we noted that it was targeting 30% revenue growth for the full year ending April 2017 (to £1.3m). According to a recent press release, over the last 12 months, it has achieved 20% growth, so is still racking up strong double-digit percentage growth. Its workforce engagement management software, which utilises gamification techniques for contact centres, is hitting the spot. But it appears the management team, including MD Jaime Scott, have bigger ambitions.

Having secured £300K in investment last year, Scott and his team invested in boosting the business’ engineering (to add new functions and features) and marketing headcount (to add to its customer base). That helped Evaluagent spread its wings into new sectors, with four major new contract wins in the outsourcing, energy, automotive and technology sectors. Feeling confident, new ambitions mean it has decided that, as well as concentrating on enhancing relationships with the reseller community and pursuing new markets (such as utilities, where its quality management platform is meeting regulatory demands), it will also try and establish a presence in North America.

LBB logoWe were impressed with Evaluagent when we met them; indeed, we thought its targets for revenue and EBITDA growth were conservative. We welcomed the news that it was set to invest further in the business to expand its customer base (which stood at 35 customers at the end of last year). We did, though, warn against getting distracted by international expansion. While the software will be equally relevant across the Atlantic, there remains plenty of potential within the UK, as enterprises increasingly focus on the customer experience (CX) differentiator within their call centres. But it seems the lure of the U.S. was too strong for Scott and his team to ignore!

More smart business for SMS

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logoIt’s faintly ironic that some companies can prosper on the mistakes of government policy, but such is life – and business. Glasgow-based utility meter installation and asset management firm, Smart Metering Systems (SMS), is one such, profiting from HMG’s blind insistence on pursuing its misguided policy to replace every gas and electricity meter in the land with a ‘smart’ meter by 2020. I won’t bore you with the long history – you can read it here for yourselves, starting with Smart homes vs smart meters and working back.

Meanwhile, SMS continues to enjoy the fruits of its endeavours, reporting half-time revenues up by 14% to £36.8m. Operating profit grew by 7% to £11.1m, somewhat faster than in 2016, though suggesting that the prior year’s loss-making acquisitions are still a drag on profitability. Nonetheless, a 30% operating margin is still to be envied.

Management advised that the problems with smart meter supply from manufacturers are easing, and still (unsurprisingly) reiterate the Government’s line that, “Smart meters serve end consumers with the best opportunity to reduce their energy consumption” which is just so much (insert your choice of words beginning with ‘b’).

Meanwhile, the smart meter rollout rolls on, even as it becomes apparent that some 7m first-generation (SMETS1) meters may have to be entirely replaced by updated (and more secure) SMETS2 models. It would be considered a farce if it weren’t for the fact that you and I are paying for this fiasco!


Peak's Analytics-as-a-Service attracts £2.5m funding

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logoManchester-based Peak has secured £2.5m in Series A funding in a round led by MMC Ventures to move its business of machine intelligence-enabled data analytics forward. This takes total funding to £3.5m.

Peak provides Data Analytics-as-a-Service using machine learning techniques, on a subscription payment business model. Data poured into its data platform is automatically ingested, unified, transformed and modelled ready for machine learning enabled analysis, with the results presented in the form of dashboards, visualisations and search functions. The company, which was founded in 2014 and has c.35 employees, has attracted customers including The Economist, Morrisons and AstraZeneca, as well as SMEs.

SaaS-based Analytics-as-a-Service is a sparsely populated area but is filling up (see here), a development that makes a lot of sense given the shortage of skills in machine intelligence and AI. There are questions around the detail of how these companies deal with the need for meticulous knowledge of the data coupled with in depth industry sector knowledge but they will provide enterprises with access to analysis of a type that previously may not have been possible. And because of the SaaS and subscription model, enable it without major overheads. 

Proxama locates new business model

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logoAIM-listed and embattled Proxama, having slimmed down its Digital Payments division, cleared its debts and raised another £3.1m in July (see Proxama fights on), is focusing its efforts on the supply of insights based on location-based data. Yesterday it launched a new customer-facing business called Location Sciences.

Initially this business will use data collected from the GPS system and the Proxama network of Bluetooth beacons installed in shopping centres and across the UK, with more than 3m “customers” providing data. These are people who have downloaded an app from a Proxama partner (like National Rail Enquiries) and have opted-in to provide data. This is not Big Brother. All data will be aggregated and anonymised and it is not a case of individuals being tracked. It’s all about the flows of groups of people and the application of some very clever algorithms to infer behaviour patterns.

Proxama aims to sell the insights from the data to retailers, city planners and outdoor advertisers, providing for example, better information about who is passing a particular advert at a given time and how the viewers respond to it. Proxama believes that the fees available from the sale of insight will provide a surer return than its older model of driving transactions over its beacon network. It should certainly require less cash to scale up.

UTIMuch still needs to be done in terms of building a portfolio of insight products and refining the necessary algorithms and AI platform. Mark Slade, the operation’s MD should bring a host of contacts in this market area and is positive about business opportunities across retailers, advertisers and the likes of Facebook and Google. This should prove to be another piece in the “Unlocking the Intelligence” jigsaw that TechMarketView has been focusing on this year.

Rackspace to acquire Datapipe

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raxRackspace (RAX) has made what it says is its largest acquisition ever with the purchase of New Jersey-based, Datapipe. The majority owner of Datapipe, Abry Partners, will receive equity in Rackspace.

On a global basis, this enables Rackspace to scale and remove a competitor. In terms of capability, Datapipe brings public cloud experience in tdatahe Public Sector (including Cabinet Office, Ministry of Justice, and Department of Transport in the  UK), professional services for larger enterprises, more data centre capacity and new/increased market presence on the West Coast of the US, Brazil, China, and Russia.

In the UK, RAX is essentially buying what was the Adapt business that Datapipe bought in August 2016 to launch its European presence. More…..

TechMarketView enters team for Prince's Trust Palace to Palace

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P2PThrough my own involvement with the Prince’s Trust since 2002, TechMarketView and its people have had a long relationship with the Trust too - giving speeches, buying tables at events etc. I am therefore extremely pleased that TMV has, this year for the first time, entered a team (Dale Peters. Holly Pressly, Helen McTeer and Martin Courtney) for Palace to Palace on Sunday 1st Oct 17. TMV will be joining some 4000 riders from the likes of Accenture, Capita, HPE, HP Inc, Fujitsu, AT&T, Atos, Capgemini, CGI, Dell etc.

It is not a cycle race. But we should remember that, fun it might be, the real objective is to raise much needed funds for the work the Prince’s Trust does with disadvantaged young people in the UK.

So if you would like to help, we would be REALLY pleased if you could sponsor any - or all - of the TechMarketView team via Justgiving. Just Click here!

Validate your scale-up plans – APPLY NOW FOR GBS2

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logoAfter the fantastic success of our inaugural Great British Scaleup event in June, we are delighted to announce that our second event (GBS2) will be held on Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th November in London.

logoYours could be one of the eight fast-growing UK tech SMEs selected to meet TechMarketView analysts and ScaleUp Group advisors in closed session to review the opportunities and potential for your business to scale up.

logoBy the way, every applicant will be eligible for a free initial infrastructure assessment by managed cloud and infrastructure services firm Cogeco Peer 1, the Enterprise Cloud & Infrastructure Services Technology Partner for the Great British Scaleup programme.  And of course, participating companies will also enjoy invaluable exposure in TechMarketView UKHotViews, along with coverage in selected TechMarketView research.

So, if you are a fast growing, privately held, UK-owned tech SME and feel that you are ready to make a step-change in growth rate, then you really should apply. Based on the feedback we received after our first Great British Scaleup event we are absolutely confident that you will come away with much greater clarity on your own scale-up potential and plans, and feel much better equipped to undertake the next stage of your scale-up journey.

To apply to participate in GBS2, a senior member of your team will need to complete the Pre-Qualification Form on our website here by Wednesday 4th October. You will be advised by Friday 18th October whether your application has been successful.

There is absolutely no charge, so don’t miss out on the opportunity to tap into the market knowledge of the TechMarketView team, and the entrepreneurial experience of ScaleUp Group advisors, to understand what it could take to materially accelerate your company’s growth.

For further information about the TechMarketView Great British Scaleup programme, please check out our website or contact us by email at gbs@techmarketview.com

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