Tequipy Raises €3M Led by Smedvig Ventures to Automate IT Device Lifecycle Across 180+ Countries

Tequipy, the Polish‑British startup automating employee IT device management for globally distributed companies, has raised over €3 million in a funding round led by Smedvig Ventures, with participation from Manta Ray and Unfold.vc. The capital will fund the company's expansion beyond hardware logistics into software and security operations, marking a significant step in its ambition to own the entire IT operations layer for remote‑first enterprises.

The company was founded in 2022 by Tomek Stawarski, Bart Czerkies, and Albert Podraza, all former Revolut employees. Stawarski served as Global Head of IT at Revolut, where he directly experienced the operational chaos of equipping a rapidly growing distributed workforce across dozens of countries simultaneously. That firsthand problem ownership is central to what Tequipy has built.

The Problem Tequipy Solves

For any company hiring across borders, a laptop is not a simple procurement. It is the beginning of a cross‑border logistics operation that can span 10, 30, or 180 countries at once. Every device needs to be purchased locally, configured to security policy, delivered on time, serviced when something breaks, wiped and recovered when an employee offboards, and then routed back into circulation, storage, or resale.

The current reality for most IT teams is that this entire process runs on spreadsheets, local supplier relationships stitched together country by country, couriers, customs brokers, and manual follow‑ups that can stretch across time zones. As Stawarski described it directly: talented IT specialists who should be building scalable systems end up repacking boxes and wiping laptops with rags while simultaneously trying to resolve a device stuck at a border. Across thousands of companies, this is not an exceptional situation. It is Tuesday.

Tequipy replaces that manual stack with a B2B hardware‑as‑a‑service platform that handles the full device lifecycle end to end. The platform sources equipment locally through authorized resellers in each target country, eliminating cross‑border shipping complexity and customs risk for the majority of deployments. Standard delivery time is three business days. Configuration is handled to customer security policy specifications before the device ships. Servicing, recovery during employee offboarding, and final disposition, whether that means refurbishment, resale, or recycling, are all handled within the same platform rather than across separate vendor relationships.

Traction and Customer Base

The commercial metrics behind the round are strong for a company of Tequipy's age. Over the past year, the business grew 7x. More than 150 fast‑growing tech companies currently use the platform, including Booksy, Connecteam, Gigs, ICEYE, RemoFirst, and Taptap Send. These are globally distributed companies operating across multiple jurisdictions, precisely the customer profile for which Tequipy's cross‑border automation delivers the most measurable value.

Freddie Kalfayan of Smedvig Ventures described the platform as having unlocked exceptional operational efficiency in global IT hardware management through back‑end automation, noting that customers describe it as a service they cannot live without. Lawrence Barclay, managing partner at Manta Ray, framed the market gap clearly: distributed hiring is now the default, but the operational layer around it, devices, accounts, access, is still assembled manually by most companies. Tequipy provides the missing infrastructure layer, built by a team that constructed an equivalent system inside Europe's most valuable private company.

What Comes Next

The new capital is directed toward two expansion areas. The first is the software operations layer: identity management, SaaS licence provisioning, and automated access control workflows that sit directly above the hardware lifecycle in an IT team's operational stack. The second is security operations: endpoint monitoring, policy enforcement, and compliance automation for the same distributed workforce that Tequipy already equips with hardware.

Co‑founder Albert Podraza described the roadmap in terms of reducing the volume of manual decisions IT teams face daily. Rather than handling every ticket by hand, the goal is a system where IT controls the process and intervenes only where human judgment is genuinely needed, with the remainder handled automatically.

The global IT asset management market was valued at approximately $1.5 billion in 2025 and is growing as remote and hybrid work cement distributed teams as the structural norm for technology companies. Tequipy's position, built on direct operational experience scaling IT at Revolut and already deployed across 150+ companies in 180+ countries, is one of the more credible early‑stage bets in this space.