As remote and distributed hiring becomes standard across the global technology industry, managing employee devices has quietly evolved into one of the most operationally complex challenges facing modern companies. What once involved simply ordering a laptop for a local employee now requires coordinating procurement, shipping, security configuration, repairs, retrieval, and compliance across dozens of countries simultaneously. For fast growing companies hiring internationally, IT operations teams are often left juggling fragmented systems, suppliers, couriers, customs processes, and endless manual coordination. Global IT operations platform Tequipy is building infrastructure designed to automate and simplify that process, and the company has now secured fresh funding to expand its platform globally.
Tequipy has raised more than €3 million in a funding round led by Smedvig Ventures, with participation from Manta Ray and Unfold vc.
The company says the investment will support expansion beyond hardware logistics into broader software and security operations.
Managing IT Across 180 Countries
Tequipy operates a platform that ships, services, and retrieves employee IT devices across more than 180 countries.
The company works with over 150 technology businesses including Booksy, Connecteam, ICEYE, RemoFirst, and Taptap Send.
According to the company, revenue has grown seven times over the past year as more globally distributed companies seek operational infrastructure capable of supporting international workforces efficiently.
Solving a Growing Operational Problem
For companies hiring internationally, employee devices have become part of a much broader cross border operational challenge.
Each laptop or workstation must be purchased, configured according to company security policies, delivered locally, maintained throughout employment, and eventually recovered during offboarding before being redeployed, stored, or resold.
Many organisations still manage these workflows manually using spreadsheets, disconnected local suppliers, warehouses, and multiple service providers.
Traditional global vendors often rely on centralised warehousing models and cross border logistics systems that can become slow, expensive, and operationally inflexible for rapidly scaling businesses.
Tequipy aims to remove much of that complexity by coordinating local sourcing, configuration, delivery, servicing, and retrieval directly within employees’ countries of residence.
Building a Distributed IT Infrastructure Layer
Tomek Stawarski said many IT specialists still spend large portions of their time handling repetitive manual operational work instead of building scalable internal systems.
According to Stawarski, IT teams are frequently forced to manage everything from hardware preparation to troubleshooting customs delays and device recovery processes manually.
Tequipy was designed to allow IT teams to supervise and automate global hardware operations rather than execute every step themselves.
Customers interact with a single system while the platform coordinates hundreds of local partners operating on the ground across multiple countries.
This approach removes the need for central warehouses, cross border shipping management, and direct customs handling by client companies.
Expanding Beyond Hardware
Tequipy says hardware management represented the hardest operational layer to automate first.
The company’s broader ambition now extends into software provisioning, account management, access control, licence management, passwords, security operations, and employee lifecycle workflows.
According to the company, the goal is to eliminate approximately 80 percent of the manual operational work currently handled by global IT teams.
Growing Investor Interest in Distributed Workforce Infrastructure
Freddie Kalfayan said Tequipy has built strong operational efficiency through automation driven infrastructure for global hardware management.
Meanwhile, Lawrence Barclay said distributed hiring has become standard for many companies, but the infrastructure supporting devices, accounts, and access management remains highly fragmented across countries.
As international hiring continues expanding across the technology sector, companies building operational infrastructure for globally distributed workforces are becoming an increasingly important part of the future enterprise software ecosystem.