French IT services firm the Inherent Group has acquired local services company Equadex

The Keensight Capital-owned company this week the acquisition, terms of which were not shared. Equadex will be rolled into Keensight/Inherent Group company Adista.

Franck Marty, founder and president of Equadex, will become director of the new Occitania region of Adista.

Founded in 2007 in Toulouse, Equadex provides local small and medium-sized businesses with IT services including auditing and consulting, integration, business application development, IT solutions deployment, and connectivity.

Located in Pamiers and Labège, Equadex's two data centers will be integrated into the Inherent network. The facilities include free cooling, hot aisle containment, and photovoltaic power plants.

"Customer proximity and satisfaction are two priorities shared by Inherent and Equadex. This partnership was therefore a natural choice for both companies, whose common goal is to eliminate technological complexity by capitalizing on human relations," said Patrice Bélie, President of Inherent.

Formed in 2000, the Inherent Group's network includes 12 data centers across Nancy, Bourges, Saint-Etienne, Paris, and Marseille. As well as Adista, Inherent also owns telecoms company Unyc and cybersecurity firm CyberProtect.

In late 2021, Adista partnered with Datafarm Energy for a new data center at an undisclosed location in France that would be powered by bio-gas.

"The Equadex team will join the Group’s direct sales activity under the Adista brand. Our employees will benefit from new synergies, and our customers will gain an expanded service offering. We share a common vision on the importance of close relationships with our customers. The Equadex team will take on the role to lead the Adista activity in the Occitania region. We will continue to support our clients such that they can leverage the technological potential and that it becomes a real operational development tool," stated Franck Marty, president and founder of Equadex.

"Keensight Capital is delighted to have supported Inherent with this new acquisition, which is in line with its continued growth ambitions: to support its clients with their IT challenges through its three operational activities. This acquisition will allow the inherent Group to consolidate its activity as a cloud services operator and to strengthen its regional coverage," added Stanislas de Tinguy, partner at Keensight Capital.

Keensight is a European private equity firm. It also owns pharmaceutical & drug discovery companies and software firms as well as battery and semiconductor companies.