Inflexion invested in UKFast, the UK's leading cloud hosting provider, in 2018, and subsequently increased our shareholding to a majority position in 2020. In 2021, UKFast acquired ANS creating a UK digital technology services leader. The business was later rebranded as ANS.
Sector
Technology
Headquarters
Manchester, UK
Fund
Partnership Capital
Investment date
December 2018
Status
Current
Founded in 1996, ANS’s 270 team members enable customers on their digital transformation journey to public cloud. ANS is a key partner to Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Founded in 1998, UKFast is a leader in private cloud hosting and security services with over 6,000 customers and has a fast-growing public cloud offering. Both companies have industry leading customer satisfaction metrics, and together will be focused on deepening the skilled resources available to customer organisations working with increasingly complex IT landscapes.
Capitalising on our track record in growing technology businesses pre-IPO, we are working with the company to help accelerate growth. Together we are capitalising on the shift from on-premise to hosted services, leveraging the business's private cloud proposition and latest public cloud solution. Our digital team are also supporting digital channel optimisation.
Paul Shannon,
CEO, ANS
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