Telarix announced an agreement to merge with Starhome Mach, creating a new global provider of wholesale network services for telecom operators. Starhome Mach's owner Fortissimo Capital is selling the company after six years of building the business to Telarix's owner Vista Equity Partners for an undisclosed sum.
Vista plans to merge the two companies, bringing together Starhome Mach's SaaS for wholesale and retail roaming, clearing, settlement and fraud prevention with the international interconnect business at Telarix. Together the two companies will serve thousands of carriers and have deployments at over 400 of the largest communication services providers worldwide, operating across more than 130 countries.
Telarix said the companies' services are highly complementary and make it the only provider of carrier solutions able to manage both the roaming and interconnect markets. Working together they can develop more advanced products based on cross-ecosystem insights and real-time analytics from their respective platforms and respond to the growing need of operators to deliver always-on connectivity.
The combined entity will remain at Telarix's headquarters in Vienna, Virginia and be led by a combined management team with current Telarix CEO Marco Limena as CEO. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2018.
