Washington State firm grows IT service business with Belfast acquisition
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Archangel Computers, headquartered in Belfast, was acquired by Belfast firm Mid-Coast Tech, which is itself owned by Washington state firm AngelCom IT Services.
Washington State-based AngelCom IT Services said it acquired a tech services provider in Belfast, Archangel Computers.
AngelCom owns technology services firm Mid-Coast Tech, also in Belfast.
Starting Jan. 1, Archangel and Mid-Coast Tech were both renamed AngelCom IT Services and are working out of Archangel’s current office at 107 Church St. in Belfast, according to a news release.
Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Third-generation company
Founded in 1986, AngelCom, headquartered in University Place, Wash., is a technology service firm that specializes in managed information technology services for businesses. A family-owned company for more than 30 years, AngelCom is owned and operated by Jeremy Brabham, a third-generation owner.
A University of Washington graduate, Brabham’s focus is support for servers, personal computers, networks and cloud-based services. AngelCom provides IT Services to clients across the nation.
Archangel was founded in 2002 to serve greater Waldo County. It offers computer repair, support and networking.
In 2014, Archangel partnered with a similar, 25-year-old Ellsworth firm called MacRevival to open a joint location there. Archangel and MacRevival recently ended their affiliation, according to a MacRevival post.
Mid-Coast Tech was founded in 2016 to serve small- and medium-sized businesses in the Mid-Coast area. Its customers are networks with five to 100 computers in the nonprofit, accounting, real estate, construction, fitness, automotive, manufacturing, legal and investment industries.
Leveraging IT
Mid-Coast and Archangel are now working together.
The acquisition is expected to provide Archangel’s customers with additional support for technology needs, considered essential as the world becomes more reliant on cloud storage and a remote workforce, said Archangel’s owner, Aaron Sarnacki.
“Our clients are now served by a larger, more robust technology firm that is better equipped to serve all their needs, both large and small,” said Sarnacki. “I have always been committed to serving my neighbors in Belfast and am proud that I can now offer additional expertise and manpower to the work we do.”
Brabham said the goal of the acquisition is to build on Archangel’s relationships established over the past 20 years.
“This acquisition helps to strengthen and expand services currently provided by Archangel,” said Brabham.
Pandemic tech pressures
The acquisition was finalized Jan 1. No changes to services or hiring are expected as a result of the acquisition, although it’s anticipated that current Archangel customers will benefit from the use of AngelCom assets, Alaina Kitz, an AngelCom spokesperson, told Mainebiz.
Sarnacki is no longer an owner in the business.
In a letter to clients, Sarnacki said he started Archangel about 20 years ago, when he was a high school freshman building computers above his parent’s garage and volunteering for the Searsport area schools as a computer tech.
“Many of you have been doing business with Archangel since the beginning, and we have gathered thousands of clients since that very first year,” he wrote. “We opened stores. Moved them, closed them; but have remained focused on one mission – your technology needs to work.”
The pandemic has made technology needs even more apparent, Sarnacki said.
“Computers and technology are embedded into our daily lives and that doesn’t look to be changing anytime soon,” he wrote.
His stores remained open through the pandemic, he noted. At the same time, he reached out to other owners in the IT world and found that many had drawn the conclusion that service providers should join forces.
“A few years ago, a satellite operation of AngelCom Computers out of Washington state had opened in Belfast, named Mid-Coast Tech,” he wrote. “At the time, Mid-Coast Tech was being run by another Belfast local in the IT industry, Alex Barnes.”
Sarnacki said he began talks with AngelCom Computers’ owner, Jeremy Brabham last spring.
“Given the overlap of mission and clients served, it only made sense to join forces,” he said. “We were all small businesses and serviced a very similar demographic — not to mention our similar company names.”
Mid-Coast staff moved to Archangel’s Belfast quarters.
“As a result we will be able to offer more products, services, and staffing than we could have accomplished alone,” Sarnacki said.
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