Adista Group (with Keensight Capital) Acquires Cyberprotect

Keensight Capital Takes Majority Stake in Adista from Equistone

June 15, 2021

IT Services

Keensight Capital has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Adista, the leading French alternative B2B hosted services operator, taking over Equistone Partners Europe as majority shareholder alongside FEF and Adista management. Adista — a French IT and telecom services provider with more than 720 employees and 35 branches, €153m in revenues for the 12 months to 31/12/2020 and a target of €300m by 2025 — will be supported by Keensight to accelerate organic growth and pursue external growth / capability expansion.

Adista Acquires Cyres

November 16, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Adista Group, supported by its investor Keensight Capital, has acquired Cyres, a Tours-based cloud hosting and managed services provider. The deal adds Cyres' Tier III datacenter, DevOps, Microsoft Azure managed services and Big Data capabilities to Adista's multi-cloud and connectivity offering while strengthening its regional presence in France.

Keensight Capital to Back Combination of Adista and unyc

September 29, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

Keensight Capital will become the majority owner of a newly combined group bringing together French B2B cloud and communications operator Adista and indirect telecoms specialist unyc. The combined company — which will keep each brand operating separately — expects c.€220m revenue and ~900 employees in 2021 and targets €500m in revenues by 2025 to become a leading challenger in cloud and telecom services in France.

Keensight Capital Invests in I-Tracing

September 28, 2017

Cybersecurity

Keensight Capital has taken a minority stake in I-Tracing, a Puteaux-based cybersecurity specialist, joining the two founding managers as shareholders. The investment will support I-Tracing — which operates SOC, managed services, integration, and forensics practices and has offices in London and Hong Kong — to accelerate growth and international development.

inherent group Acquires devensys cybersecurity

January 16, 2025

Cybersecurity

inherent group has acquired devensys cybersecurity to strengthen and expand its cybersecurity capabilities, with the transaction supported by Keensight Capital. The devensys business will operate as inherent group's cybersecurity division (under the devensys cybersecurity name) and is supported by a team of more than 100 cybersecurity experts to deliver offensive and defensive services including SOC, CERT/VOC, penetration testing, incident response, training and audits.

Keensight Capital Acquires Minority Stake in Advancis

November 26, 2024

Software

Keensight Capital has acquired a minority stake in Advancis Software & Services GmbH, a Germany-based developer of Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) software. The founders remain committed to the business and Keensight will support product development, strengthen commercial and marketing capabilities, and accelerate international expansion (notably North America and Asia).