Unisys to amass Seattle-area startup Unify Sq. for $152.5M

John Case, CEO of Unify Square. (Unify square photo)

Listed IT services company Unisys announced that it will acquire Bellevue, Washington-based startup Unify Square for $ 152.5 million in cash.

Unify Square was founded in 2008 and helps companies manage collaboration and communication software such as Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 and Zoom. Customers include REI, Barclays, Bank of Ireland, Unilever and others.

Unify Square had raised $ 36 million, according to PitchBook. Investors include Primepulse SE, Microsoft, Bridge Bank and Stanford University.

Unify Square is a long-time partner of Microsoft, where founder and former CEO Sonu Aggarwal once worked on the product roadmap and development for Live Communications Server and Office Communications Server. Aggarwal moved to CTO and was replaced in 2017 by John Case, a former corporate vice president of global marketing, product management and business teams for Office and Office 365 at Microsoft.

“Unisys and Unify Square share a common vision of how companies can more easily adapt to the new reality of a hybrid workforce,” Case said in a statement.

Unify employs around 200 people at locations in Bellevue, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, India, Australia and Lithuania.

Unisys is a global IT giant headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, with revenue of $ 509.8 million for the last fiscal quarter, down 1.1% year over year.