Security outfit Distology has acquired German software consultancy Squareball, its first-ever acquisition.
Squareball was founded in 2017. It started as a digital products consultancy and specialises in software engineering, product design, solution architecture and identity access management.
It is the third European office for UK-based Distology, the deal marks its first expansion into Germany.
CEO Hayley Roberts said Squareball was a “very credible services practice” that will add new technical capabilities to the distributor.
“We thought that, rather than trying to find another distributor that’s doing what we’re doing in the UK and then trying to retrofit our culture onto them, why not actually find a technical services business that services the areas that we operate in, being identity access management and security?”.
Roberts said that she plans to build a sales team around the Squareball business in Berlin and will begin bring on vendors that it works with in the UK and the Netherlands.
She said she aims to build up Distology to be a “top five” value-added distributor in the German market within the next three years.
Squareball CEO and founder Martyn Roberts will stay on with Distology in a new role as European services director.
