Hamburg \/ Langen \u2014 With the Euro\u00adpean invest\u00adment company Water\u00adland, dacoso has brought a strong growth part\u00adner on board. Toge\u00adther with the new majo\u00adrity share\u00adhol\u00adder, inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal expan\u00adsion is to be driven forward and the successful course of the company, which is head\u00adquar\u00adte\u00adred in Langen, Hesse, is to be inten\u00adsi\u00adfied. In the course of digi\u00adta\u00adliza\u00adtion, the markets for ICT networks and cyber secu\u00adrity will conti\u00adnue to grow signi\u00adfi\u00adcantly globally in the coming years. dacoso, one of the leading IT service provi\u00adders for networks and cyber secu\u00adrity in the DACH region, also wants to bene\u00adfit from this.<\/p>\n
The sellers of the shares are the company foun\u00adders Thomas Joswig and Horst Pohl as well as their two sons Felix Pohl and Robin Pohl; all will remain share\u00adhol\u00adders in the future and Felix Pohl will conti\u00adnue to lead the group as CEO. The tran\u00adsac\u00adtion is still subject to custo\u00admary regu\u00adla\u00adtory appr\u00adovals; finan\u00adcial details will not be disclosed<\/p>\n
Foun\u00added in 2004 and conti\u00adnuously growing, dacoso GmbH is a leading IT network inte\u00adgra\u00adtor and data secu\u00adrity provi\u00adder in the DACH region. The focus is on mana\u00adged services for opti\u00adcal networks, intel\u00adli\u00adgent networks and cyber secu\u00adrity, which dacoso opera\u00adtes for its busi\u00adness custo\u00admers in its own certi\u00adfied IT Network & Secu\u00adrity Opera\u00adti\u00adons Center (SOC). These are comple\u00admen\u00adted by services such as consul\u00adting, inte\u00adgra\u00adtion and roll\u00adout with nati\u00adon\u00adwide field service \u2014 a holi\u00adstic port\u00adfo\u00adlio that focu\u00adses on perfor\u00admance, data secu\u00adrity and econo\u00admic effi\u00adci\u00adency as well as the custo\u00admer\u2019s criti\u00adcal infra\u00adstruc\u00adture. The long-stan\u00adding custo\u00admer base includes nume\u00adrous well-known blue-chip compa\u00adnies (enter\u00adprise and carrier), which use dacoso to connect data centers, network loca\u00adti\u00adons or set up carrier back\u00adbones, for exam\u00adple, and to iden\u00adtify and ward off attack risks. In addi\u00adtion to its head\u00adquar\u00adters near Frank\u00adfurt am Main, dacoso is present at eleven other loca\u00adti\u00adons in Germany, Austria and Switz\u00ader\u00adland and gene\u00adra\u00adtes a three-digit million euro turno\u00adver with almost 300 employees.<\/p>\n
Thomas Joswig and Horst Pohl agree: \u201cAfter 20 years, it is the perfect time to hand over the manage\u00adment comple\u00adtely to the new gene\u00adra\u00adtion and to enter the next stage of orga\u00adnic and inor\u00adga\u00adnic growth \u2014 we are deligh\u00adted to have found a part\u00adner in Water\u00adland who will closely accom\u00adpany us on this path with exper\u00adtise and finan\u00adcial strength. Both employees and custo\u00admers will bene\u00adfit from this partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n
CEO Felix Pohl says: \u201cIn Water\u00adland, we have found a part\u00adner for our future path who has special exper\u00adtise in the further deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment of growth compa\u00adnies as well as many years of expe\u00adri\u00adence in the ICT sector. The chemis\u00adtry is also right \u2014 on this opti\u00admal basis, we now want to tackle the deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment of an inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnally market-leading group of companies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Cars\u00adten Rahlfs, Mana\u00adging Part\u00adner at Water\u00adland<\/strong> (photo \u00a9 Water\u00adland), adds: \u201cA stable ICT infra\u00adstruc\u00adture with high trans\u00admis\u00adsion volu\u00admes and defense against cyber attacks are beco\u00adming incre\u00adasingly important. The corre\u00adspon\u00adding posi\u00adtio\u00adning of dacoso in its indus\u00adtry is alre\u00adady excel\u00adlent in the DACH region; now we want to join forces to build a Euro\u00adpean market leader in the field of network inte\u00adgra\u00adtion and cyber security.\u201d<\/p>\n Water\u00adland is one of the most active Euro\u00adpean invest\u00adment compa\u00adnies and has made nume\u00adrous invest\u00adments in the digi\u00adta\u00adliza\u00adtion, IT and tele\u00adcom\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons sectors. In the DACH region in parti\u00adcu\u00adlar, the port\u00adfo\u00adlio curr\u00adently includes compa\u00adnies such as netgo (IT service provi\u00adder), Hyand (soft\u00adware deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment), enreach (unified commu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons), Skay\u00adlink (mana\u00adged enter\u00adprise plat\u00adform) and Serrala (payment technologies).<\/p>\n About Water\u00adland Hamburg \/ Langen \u2014 With the Euro\u00adpean invest\u00adment company Water\u00adland, dacoso has brought a strong growth part\u00adner on board. Toge\u00adther with the new majo\u00adrity share\u00adhol\u00adder, inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal expan\u00adsion is to be driven forward and the successful course of the company, which is head\u00adquar\u00adte\u00adred in Langen, Hesse, is to be inten\u00adsi\u00adfied. In the course of digi\u00adta\u00adliza\u00adtion, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[886,1364,1365,1366,1368,1369,1377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-en","category-featured-en","category-private-equity-en","category-news-en","category-lawyers-tax-consultants-auditors","category-investors","category-corporate-finance-ma"],"yoast_head":"\n
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