7. Qodea
Deals announced in 2025: 2 – Beyond (July) and TIQQE (September)
Deal magnitude: 100 employees and unknown number of employees, respectively
Appetite for M&A
“It’s a very interesting change for us as a business,” Qodea CEO Alan Paton said of the Manchester-based Google partner’s acquisition of 100-strong US peer Beyond in July.
It quickly followed this up by swooping on Swedish AWS partner TIQQE in September. The deal expanded Qodea’s European footprint into the Nordics while handing it an engineering base in the Philippines.
The Qodea brand was only born in September 2024 following the 2023 union of similar-sized Google partners CTS and Appsbroker. Revenues for its year to 31 March 2025 hit £166.6m.
Talking to IT Channel Oxygen after the Qodea deal, Paton said he “can’t quite get my head around what we managed to pull off”.
What they said
“Here we have two companies formed in the UK who are now breaking into North America. We’re walking the corridors of prestigious tech companies and providing services to them,” – Qodea CEO Alan Paton
Background bulletin
In a video accompanying the announcement, TIQQE CEO Joakim Restadh said his firm is known for its “unreasonable hospitality”.
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