Hansab Group and Replicant IT Join Forces: More Capability, Security and Digital Sovereignty
Hansab Group has acquired a majority stake in the Estonian IT infrastructure and cybersecurity company Replicant IT. The transaction marks Hansab Group’s strategic entry into the IT infrastructure technology and services business and gives Replicant IT significantly greater capability to bring European technology-based solutions to customers in the Baltics and Finland.
Following the transaction, Replicant IT will continue as an independent company with its own brand, identity and value proposition. The company’s founders, Tauno Telvik and Janno Jõgisu, will continue actively in their current roles: Tauno Telvik will continue as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and member of the Management Board, while Janno Jõgisu will continue as Network Architect. Hansab Group CEO Janno Kallikorm will join Replicant IT’s Management Board.
Following the transaction, Replicant IT and Hansab Group’s existing IT services teams will be merged into a unified whole, creating significantly better capability to support both current and future customers.
European Technology as a Competitive Advantage
Replicant IT’s mission is to help customers reduce strategic risks arising from information technology dependencies by providing the best European IT infrastructure and cybersecurity technologies together with a proactive managed service. In geopolitically turbulent times, technology of European origin has become an increasingly important competitive advantage and source of resilience for organizations.
“Joining Hansab Group gives Replicant IT the opportunity to implement our important mission more rapidly and on a larger scale. The market has given us a clear signal – there is an acute need for information technology of European origin and digital sovereignty. And this need is growing. Hansab’s belief in our mission, demonstrated by this transaction, enables us to meet the expectations of today’s and future customers”
– Tauno Telvik, CEO and Co-founder of Replicant IT
A Strategic Step for Hansab Group
For Hansab Group, the transaction means entering the IT infrastructure business and significantly complementing its existing service portfolio. Hansab’s current customers in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland can now also order modern IT infrastructure and cybersecurity solutions together with a proactive managed service from their trusted partner.
“The Replicant IT team has built a company whose technological competence and European technology-centered value proposition fit perfectly with Hansab’s long-term philosophy – to provide customers with professional, well-considered and sustainable solutions. This transaction helps us offer customers a more comprehensive and better integrated service across the Baltics and Finland” – Janno Kallikorm
What Changes for Customers
For Replicant IT’s existing customers, day-to-day contacts and the content of the service will not change – Tauno Telvik and Janno Jõgisu will continue in the same roles. At the same time, new opportunities will open up: the expanded team brings additional competence, greater scale enables faster response times, and Hansab Group’s international presence opens the door to several new markets.
Going forward, Hansab Group’s customers will have the opportunity, in addition to existing services, to procure both IT infrastructure and cybersecurity technology and services through their existing partner.
