Adapt

Business

Established in 2001, Adapt is a leading UK Managed Hosting Provider, delivering enterprise-class cloud, infrastructure management, network and data centre services to a wide range of mid-market clients that operate mission critical applications including Glide, PKR, Cubic Transportation, Canonical, last.fm, LOVEFiLM and LCH.Clearnet.

Adapt’s services increase business agility, enabling change and innovation with an integrated offering that spans the entire infrastructure. The company’s eVDC platform underpins the delivery of affordable, scalable virtual and cloud-based services that can be simply defined by number of users.

The business employs 100 people at its central London headquarters and 60 at its operational centre in Cardiff. At acquisition Adapt’s EBITDA was £4 million on a turnover of £35 million.

Market

The UK IT services market as a whole is forecast to grow at a compound annual rate of four per cent over the next five years whilst Adapt’s core addressable market for managed hosting will expand at approximately 15 per cent per annum during the same period. The rapid growth of the managed hosting and cloud services segment is being driven by demand from mid-market businesses looking to reduce infrastructure costs and remove complexity by outsourcing management of critical data, infrastructure and applications.

Strategy

Lyceum Capital led the institutional buyout of Adapt and is implementing an organic and acquisitive growth strategy which includes:

Further penetration of Adapt’s existing client base
Developing services which provide customers with additional efficiencies
Further enhancing channel partner relationships
Acquiring complementary businesses which extend Adapt’s service portfolio and geographical reach

Developments

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For the latest information on our investment in Adapt, download our platform focus document.