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Sale: The Scale Factory

Crowe advises The Scale Factory on its sale to Ten10.

Crowe has advised the shareholders of The Scale Factory Limited on the sale of the business to Ten10, a Graphite Capital portfolio company.

The Scale Factory is an award-winning Software as a Service (SaaS) consultancy specialising in delivering Amazon Web Services (AWS) migration, modernisation and growth solutions.

Established in 2009, CEO Jon Topper has built The Scale Factory into a leading AWS SaaS solutions partner with the support of a high calibre technology consulting and delivery team led by COO Jemma Bolland and CTO Mike Mead.

The acquisition will enable Ten10, a highly established software engineering and automation services group, to add significant scale, talent and growth potential to its Cloud & DevOps practice.

Crowe's role and team

The Crowe team of Matteo Timpani and Connor Tostevin acted as lead advisers to shareholders Jon Topper, Jemma Bolland and Mike Mead.

Client quote

"This was our first experience of M&A and Crowe were very reassuring as they guided us through the sale process, engaging with the buy side on our behalf and managing the deal through to completion in close collaboration with our legal team. They were friendly and highly responsive throughout, and always very willing to talk us through anything that we weren’t sure about. We were delighted to have them on our side."

Jon Topper, CEO, The Scale Factory

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