Vorboss announces two acquisitions and an investment

London-based business Internet access provider Vorboss has announced it has completed two acquisitions; It has acquired 40ft, a cyber-security company and Optimity, a managed service company. They also completed an investment into Layer 8, a network management provider for commercial real estate. This increases the Vorboss team by 80 staff to over 400.

“Vorboss has a long history in managed services, but for the last 6 years, our focus has been on delivering the best enterprise fibre network London has ever seen. That has been a huge project, commanding millions of hours of labour from our team, and we are now connecting thousands of business customers to that network – all at 10Gbps and above. I’m excited that we’re now able to return to some of our managed services roots, with the timely addition of cybersecurity services. These are things that our customers and partners ask us about all the time. As operators of extensive, high-capacity infrastructure, we have a huge amount of real expertise in-house already, so customers know that they’re getting advice from real practitioners, not just consultants. 

The addition of the Optimity and 40fi teams gives us some immediate scale to address those customer needs, with the same vertically integrated, high quality approach that they’ve come to love from us.”

Tim Creswick, CEO, Vorboss

Cyber-security is growing in risk for businesses and a single provider for connectivity, cyber-security and other services is potentially make sense to many businesses. It also makes customers more ‘sticky’ as moving to another provider involves multiple products.