Qodea has expanded into the Nordics by acquiring a Swedish AWS partner known for its “unreasonable hospitality”.
The Manchester-based Google partner – which is looking to double in size this year – hinted that further M&A was on the cards in July when it acquired US peer Beyond.
Today it has announced the purchase of TIQQE, an Örebro-based consultancy that claims to be “one of the highest certified AWS partners in the Nordics”.
TIQQE expands Qodea’s European footprint into the Nordics while handing it an engineering base in the Philippines.
In a video accompanying the announcement (see bottom), TIQQE CEO Joakim Restadh said his firm is known for its “unreasonable hospitality”.
“We try to do the little extra and go the extra mile each time we meet the person,” he explained.
Asked why TIQQE plumped for Qodea in what was a “super-competitive process”, Restadh said he was interested in its growth journey.
“You are located all around the world; the cross-pollination is really interesting,” he added.
Asked how much should be read into TIQQE’s AWS bent, Qodea CEO Alan Paton said it remains “Google First as a group”.
“We will now be able to offer Google services to TIQQE’s customers, providing a significant potential pipeline of consumption on Google Cloud. Qodea continues to build a collaborative pipeline with Google through a joint go-to-market strategy,” he told IT Channel Oxygen.
In a statement, Paton added that the deal marks a “step change” in Marlin Equity Partners-backed Qodea’s “ability to deliver at pace for customers”.
“In conversations with their long-term clients, two things stood out. First, TIQQE has consistently proven it can take complex solutions to production quickly and at scale,” he stated.
“Second, the agentic AI tools, processes and distributed delivery model they have built in-house are driving real efficiency and speed in delivery.”
