Celerity buys I2V in second deal since April, lifting headcount to 107

What's the deal? CelerityDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has acquired Insight 2 Value (I2V)Dealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a specialist in IBMDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → FileNet and Cloud Pak for Business Automation. The deal strengthens Celerity's capacity to improve customer onboarding, complaints handling, case management, and regulatory compliance.

What's the endgame? Celerity combines I2V's content and automation expertise with its own scale across infrastructure, cloud, security, and managed services. Customers keep the same specialist team, now backed by a wider bench and broader tools including containerisation, cloud migration, and intelligent document processing.

Why now? The transaction follows Celerity's acquisition of Ranger4Dealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → in April 2026, taking headcount to 107. The company has grown quickly since a £15 million investment from growth capital investor BGFDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → in 2021.

Chief executive officer Craig Aston said the deal means customers can "benefit from solutions that combine intelligent automation and content-driven workflows with our cyber-resilient infrastructure."

Phil Hagen, managing director at I2V, called joining Celerity the "natural next step," giving it a platform to keep developing solutions alongside a wider team.

The signal: This is the latest in a run of channel consolidation, as backed operators buy niche specialists to broaden service portfolios. BGF partner Harry Jones called the deal "an important milestone" that will further differentiate Celerity's proposition.

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