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Tequipy, a platform that ships, services, and retrieves employee IT devices in 180+ countries, has raised over €3 million in a round led by Smedvig Ventures, with participation from Manta Ray and Unfold.vc.
The company already works with more than 150 fast-growing tech companies, including Booksy, Connecteam, Gigs, ICEYE, RemoFirst, and Taptap Send, and has grown 7x in the last year.
The company will use the funding to expand its platform beyond hardware into software and security operations.
For globally distributed companies, an employee laptop is no longer a simple procurement item. It is the start of a cross-border operation that can run across 10, 30, 60 or 180 countries at once. Every device has to be purchased, configured to security policy, delivered on time, serviced, recovered during offboarding, and then routed back into circulation, storage or resale.
That process is still largely manual. IT teams are left stitching together spreadsheets, local suppliers, couriers, customs brokers, warehouses and endless follow-ups. Global vendors solve parts of the problem, but often through long contracts, centralised warehousing and hardware markups that make the model too slow and expensive for fast-growing companies.
According to Tequipy’s co-founder and CEO, Tomek Stawarski:
“I’ve seen ambitious, talented IT specialists who should have been building scalable systems end up repacking boxes and wiping laptops with rags, while also trying to solve the problem of a device stuck at the border.
Across thousands of companies, this is not an exception. It is an everyday reality. We built Tequipy so IT can supervise the process instead of executing every step of it by hand.”
Customers come to Tequipy for one country and stay for many. They see one system — underneath, software coordinates several hundred local partners who source, configure, deliver, service and retrieve devices on the ground, in the country of employment. No central warehouse, no cross-border shipping, no customs to manage on the client side. Tequipy started with hardware because it is the hardest part of IT operations to automate.
The company’s broader goal is to remove around 80 per cent of manual operational work from global IT teams. The next layer is software: employee accounts, licences, access, passwords, the processes around the full employee lifecycle, and security.
“Tequipy has unlocked exceptional operational efficiency in global IT hardware management driven by their back-end automation. For Tequipy’s customers, this means significant time and cost saved through a service and platform they can’t live without,” says Freddie Kalfayan from Smedvig Ventures.
According to Lawrence Barclay, managing partner at Manta Ray;
“Distributed hiring is now the default, but the operational layer around it – devices, accounts, access – is still stitched together country by country.
Tequipy is providing the missing layer. This team is one of the best placed to solve this, having built this system inside Europe’s most valuable private company.”