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Mobily sells phone plans. Its bigger bet is under the surface.
The company that broke Saudi Arabia’s mobile monopoly is building a business in fiber, data centers and cables beneath the Red Sea. Getting there has meant a costly license, an accounting reckoning and a new test of what a telecom operator can sell.
Spark New Zealand Is Learning What to Let Go
The former Telecom has quit sports streaming and sold control of its data centres. Its next test is turning a narrower focus into better connections for New Zealanders.
HGS wants AI to earn its keep
After a $1.2 billion healthcare divestment, HGS is building its next chapter around technology that does the work. The revealing details are in the queues, case files and calls it helps companies handle.
CompassMSP Wants to Be the Only IT Number You Need
A string of acquisitions has given CompassMSP national reach. Its pitch to businesses is more personal: fewer technology handoffs, stronger security, and someone who understands what an outage costs.
Myriad360 Is Betting Big on the Work Behind AI
The systems integrator is buying expertise, assembling infrastructure and handling the unglamorous details of enterprise technology. Its next test is keeping the personal touch as the business gets bigger.
Telkom waited nine years for this turn
South Africa’s former telephone monopoly has found growth in the network beneath the apps. Its fibre recovery reveals the cost of replacing a business while millions of customers still depend on it.
Grey Matter knows where the cloud bill hides
The Devon software specialist built its business helping developers buy the right tools. Four decades later, its work reaches from forgotten Azure resources to the maps inside delivery apps.
Builder.ai promised apps on demand. Then the money ran out.
An AI assistant, reusable code and human developers were supposed to make custom software easy to order. Builder.ai’s collapse exposed how much depended on the people, the promises and the cash behind the screen.
Solirius Reply and the hard work behind a simple public service
A court notification can hide a surprisingly large job. Inside the consultancy that helps government teams untangle the work, test the service and make it usable.
Westcoast sells the kit. The real business is everything around it.
The British distributor turns hardware, software and a thousand small headaches into something a reseller can sell. Its sale to ALSO shows how expensive that useful middle ground has become.
The 40-Year-Old IT Company Selling One Thing Above All: Someone to Answer
Transputec began with two students, a bank problem and a machine called a transputer. Four decades later, its pitch is refreshingly unglamorous: keep the systems running, make the costs legible and pick up the phone when they do not.
CTS Built the Cloud Beneath British Law. Then One Outage Changed the Verdict.
For years, CTS sold law firms a persuasive idea: specialist technology, one accountable partner, fewer moving parts. Its rise - and the cyber incident that forced its MSP arm into a sale - is a case study in both the power and the peril of concentration.
Nexval Spent 15 Years Learning Mortgage Grunt Work. Now It Wants AI to Do the Boring Parts.
The mortgage back office is a swamp of documents, exceptions and old software. Nexval's bet is that the people who have done that work for years are best placed to teach machines which parts should disappear.
Saicon Spent 28 Years Selling Talent. Now It Wants to Sell the Whole Transformation.
The Kansas company built its first act by placing technical people. Its second act bundles those recruiters, engineers, acquired firms and an AI matching platform into one audacious promise: one vendor for both the transformation plan and the people who make it real.
Raj Velagapudi Keeps Building for the Moment After the Pitch
Across three decades, Raj Velagapudi has returned to the same operating idea: make technology answer to outcomes, then build the team that can carry the promise across borders.
The Mississippi Telco That Ran Google's Fiber Playbook - And Kept the Whole State
How a Gulf Coast cellular start-up became the biggest privately held wireless carrier in America - by making towns compete to get fiber first, then wiring the rest of the state anyway.
Clear Rate’s Bet: The Best Telecom Upgrade Is One Human Who Answers
For 25 years, the Michigan provider has sold a gloriously unsexy idea: one bill, one number to call, and fewer vendors to blame. Its opportunity is the mess between national carriers - and its risk is whether local service can stay personal as the platform grows.
The Friendly Web Host Quietly Building a Cloud Empire
HostPapa built its name by making web hosting feel less intimidating. Now the Canadian company is using acquisitions, AI tools and a $130 million credit facility to become something much larger: the operating layer for small-business internet life.
Capgemini
Capgemini has spent nearly six decades selling enterprises the confidence to change. Now its 420,000-plus-person machine is being rebuilt around AI agents, intelligent operations and a very practical question: can a consultancy automate work without automating away its own advantage?
Executech
Executech is a managed IT services provider (MSP) based in South Jordan, Utah, that delivers outsourced IT support, cybersecurity, cloud, and compliance services to organizations across the western United States. Founded around 1999 by Eric Montague on a 'People First' philosophy, the company grew from a one-person operation in a garage into one of the region's largest and most-awarded IT outsourcing firms, backed since 2017 by Evergreen Services Group. It supports hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of end users across sectors like healthcare, finance, government, education, and manufacturing.
Infotech Spectrum Inc
Infotech Spectrum Inc is a Santa Clara, California IT consulting and professional staffing firm founded in 2003. It pairs contract, contract-to-hire, and direct placement staffing with delivery services spanning strategic IT consulting, enterprise software, cloud, and computer systems validation (CSV) for regulated life sciences work. Working with clients such as Gilead, Genentech, Cisco, and Juul, the roughly 86-person company blends onsite Silicon Valley talent with a global delivery model to help enterprises staff hard-to-fill roles and ship technology projects on schedule and on budget.
InterSources Inc
InterSources Inc is a Fremont, California-based technology consultancy and Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) founded in 2007. It pairs cybersecurity and compliance services with data analytics, AI, cloud operations, custom software development and IT staffing, serving regulated industries such as healthcare, banking, pharmaceuticals and the public sector. A certified minority- and women-owned small business, it holds ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications and positions itself as 'built like a tech company, trusted like a partner.'
Milestone Technologies, Inc.
Milestone Technologies is a Fremont, California-based global IT services and digital solutions company founded in 1997. It helps large enterprises run and modernize their technology at scale - spanning digital workplace services, IT service desk and NOC operations, cloud and infrastructure, application and digital engineering, AI/automation, and platform work on ServiceNow and Salesforce. The company employs roughly 2,600-3,100 people, serves more than 200 clients across about 31 countries, and is majority-owned by The Halifax Group with a minority stake held by Two Sigma Impact.
ProTelesis Corporation
ProTelesis Corporation is a San Diego-based managed services provider (MSP/MSSP) born from the 2019 merger of two California telecom heavyweights - Protel (a leading Mitel Blue dealer) and Xtelesis (a leading Mitel Orange dealer). The company has evolved from a traditional phone-system business into a full-stack technology partner delivering managed IT, cybersecurity, unified communications, cloud, structured cabling, and managed detection and response. With offices across California, the Pacific Northwest, Utah, and Bangalore, it supports thousands of clients and hundreds of thousands of endpoints, with a focus on biotech, defense, and growing small-to-midsize businesses.
TAO Digital Solutions
TAO Digital Solutions is a Santa Clara, California-based IT services and consulting firm founded in 2022 by serial entrepreneur Rajkumar (Raj) Velagapudi. It helps enterprises with product engineering, managed services, cybersecurity, payment solutions, cloud, data and AI-driven transformation. Backed by a 2024 growth investment from Vesper Company, TAO has scaled to roughly 3,000-3,650 professionals across offices in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, and has pursued aggressive M&A to deepen capabilities in medtech, automotive and life sciences.
TeamLogic IT
TeamLogic IT is a North American managed IT services provider that operates as a franchise network of locally owned, nationally backed offices. It delivers managed IT, cybersecurity, cloud, business continuity and IT consulting to small and mid-sized businesses, pairing on-the-ground local owners with enterprise-grade tools, 24/7 monitoring and a virtual-CIO advisory model. Founded in 2004 and owned by Franchise Services, Inc., the brand has grown to roughly 300+ locations and is consistently ranked among the world's top MSPs.
VARITE INC
VARITE INC is a San Jose-based technical consulting and staffing firm founded in 2000 by Adarsh Katyal. It supplies contract and permanent talent, team augmentation, and onshore/nearshore/offshore delivery to Fortune 1000 companies across technology, finance, life sciences, semiconductor, defense, and energy. With operations in the US, Canada, and India, VARITE pairs people with process - placing engineers, analysts, and specialists while running business-process and software delivery work. The company reported roughly $55.3M in 2024 revenue and runs on the motto 'Experience. Expertise. Excellence.'
Scott Bowen
Scott Bowen is the CEO of Tenovos, a New York based digital asset management and content intelligence company he co-founded in 2018 with Sal Hakimi. Often described as one of the founding fathers of the DAM category, Bowen co-founded Artesia Technologies in the late 1990s, an early DAM pioneer acquired by OpenText in 2004, where he went on to launch the company's Customer Experience Management and Cloud Services divisions. A Yale-trained electrical engineer and economist, he has spent more than two decades building software at the intersection of digital media, marketing, data analytics and the cloud, including senior roles at Vistaprint and ICX Media. At Tenovos he is pushing the idea that modern marketing teams should treat content as measurable, data-rich infrastructure rather than files in a folder.
Voyager Partners Consultancy Inc.
Voyager Partners Consultancy is a Hyderabad-based professional services firm that bills itself as a 'growth acceleration partner' for medium and large businesses. It bundles four offerings under one roof: onshore/offshore IT and finance staffing, transaction risk advisory (fundraising, M&A, restructuring), technology/ITES implementation (SAP, cloud, automation, analytics), and corporate support services (incorporation, bookkeeping, tax compliance). Founded in 2021 and led by Neeraj Jha, the firm operates from offices in India, the USA, UAE and Singapore and says it has served 100+ companies and placed 1,000+ professionals.
BJIT
BJIT is a global software development and IT outsourcing company founded in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2001, built as a bridge between Japanese engineering discipline and Bangladeshi talent. With 750+ engineers across eight offices in Japan, the USA, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Singapore, Thailand and Bangladesh, BJIT delivers dedicated offshore teams, custom software, QA automation, DevOps, AI, IoT, blockchain and mechanical engineering to more than 50 Fortune 500 clients including Sony, Panasonic, BMW, Qualcomm and Dassault Systemes.