Tequipy, the 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. It will use the funding to expand its platform beyond hardware into software and security operations.
For globally distributed companies, an employee’s 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 a 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.
Tequipy’s co-founder and CEO, Tomek Stawarski, knows the problem first-hand. As Global Head of IT at Revolut, he scaled IT operations from 100 employees in two offices to 5,000 across 17 countries, and saw how device logistics broke down at an international scale.
That experience became Tequipy. He co-founded the company with Bart Czerkies, who leads growth and marketing, and Albert Podraza, who leads engineering. Both are former Revolut colleagues.
“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.”
The model is already working. 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.
“Companies often come to us with one country or one urgent problem. They cannot get a device to a new hire quickly and predictably. With Tequipy, onboarding starts in five minutes instead of two months, and the device reaches the employee in three days on average. After that, they usually give us more countries, because they see our process working better than their own.”
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% of manual operational work from global IT teams. The next layer is software: employee accounts, licences, access, passwords and the processes around the full employee lifecycle. Security follows.
“Hardware is the toughest test for IT automation because it touches the physical world. If we can run that process across 180 countries, we can automate the layers above it. The next step is a tool that removes thousands of small decisions and exceptions from IT teams’ plates. Instead of handling every ticket manually, IT will control the process, step in only where human judgment is actually needed, and focus on building systems rather than pushing operations.”
"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"
