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Through its associated company, Fully Studios, the gaming segment has become another leg for Qgroup, where cooperation with major players such as Toca Boca and developing its own games are highly topical.

Qgroup Gets Established in the Gaming Segment 

Since the beginning of 2022, Qgroup has been a partner in the Di Gasell company Fully Studios &#8211; an award-winning Swedish studio in Gothenburg and Stockholm that offers web and app development services, film, and games.
The game segment (video games, gaming) is growing strongly. Today, Fully Studios has a business that partly caters to customers who order game development assignments and partly has its own studio that develops unique games.
To be able to deliver top-class services, Fully Studios has brought experienced game developers into its team. The cutting-edge expertise has led to assignments for well-known game development companies such as Toca Boca, with which Fully Studios has collaborated for years. The task is to develop live service functionality for one of Toca Boca&#8217;s online games.
John Renäs, Studio Director at Fully Studios:
&#8220;Live service is an area within games where game development meets more traditional web backend, which requires a deep understanding of both disciplines, something we have taken upon ourselves to build within Fully Studios.&#8221;
Fully Studios&#8217; sister company &#8211; The Fully Arcade &#8211; also launched its first game. Arcade Sundown, which involves shrinking your game character to mini size and facing off against others in pinball games in lively, short matches, has quickly become a buzz in the industry. Arcade Sundown can be played with one player or in a multiplayer system with 2-4 players. In the single-player mode, the player faces AI-guided opponents.
Joakim Hanner, Associate Creative Director, The Fully Arcade:
&#8220;We have developed our game over five years and are incredibly happy with the response we have received. We niche ourselves properly, focusing on a target group in the gaming market that appreciates multiplayer games. We plan to create more game products because games can last long. We are building for the long term so that our users have a relationship with our studio and recognize and appreciate our style.&#8221;
Mikael Kretz, Founder, Qgroup:
&#8220;It&#8217;s insanely fun that Qgroup, through part ownership of Fully Studios, has been allowed to enter this segment that oozes future, excitement, and playfulness. All of this resonates with Qgroup and what we stand for, and we are now looking at how we can develop this leg further.&#8221;

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Qgroup Gets Established in the Gaming Segment

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Data Dao was launched in October last year with the mission to provide the market with unique specialists in data. Since then, the organization has grown with more consultants, they have started a podcast on the topic of data, and today is the launch day of their brand-new website – datadao.se.

Qgroup’s Latest new Company, Data Dao, Launches Website and Comms Platform

The first version of the website is loaded with content that will gradually be extended, such as a resource bank with articles, templates, and code repos that Data Dao uses and would like to share.
Benny Andrén, founder and partner, Data Dao:
&#8220;We are thrilled to finally be able to launch our website and communication platform. Now we can start communicating with both customers, partners, and candidates in our own way. Communication is one of our pillars, as we want to stand out as being different by doing differently. We want to show that a lot around data is yet undone, and we strive to be one of the thought leaders in providing food for thought and communication around it. Our website and podcast are two great examples of that.&#8221; 

For more info, please visit <a href="https://www.datadao.se/">datadao.se</a>, and follow Data Dao&#8217;s LinkedIn page at <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-dao-ab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-dao-ab/.</a>

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Qgroup, one of Sweden’s leading global IT consultancy groups, announces its strategic partnership with Specno, a top-rated South African software and design agency. By becoming part-owner of the company, the deal will support Qgroup’s expansion into a new continent. Simultaneously, the agreement will bring innovative software development and design approaches to the Swedish market.

Qgroup Expands into South Africa

As part of Qgroup&#8217;s expansion strategy, the IT group enters the much-anticipated South African market by becoming part-owner of Specno. The company is recognized as the number one software and design agency in South Africa as it has developed a unique framework for building and scaling software ventures, a formula they&#8217;re now aiming to distribute to one million entrepreneurs worldwide.
Mikael Kretz, founder of Qgroup, comments:
&#8220;This partnership signals Qgroup&#8217;s commitment to fostering global tech innovation. Specno&#8217;s expertise in building successful tech ventures is remarkable, and the company&#8217;s commitment to fostering innovation ecosystems aligns perfectly with our investment strategy. This collaboration allows us to gain rich insights into Africa&#8217;s growing tech industry while simultaneously providing the Swedish market with world-class development resources.&#8221;
Qgroup will work to establish Specno&#8217;s services in Sweden, ensuring the company can invest in training and employing local Swedish talent. Specno&#8217;s expansion into Sweden brings a new player into the Swedish tech ecosystem, fostering cross-cultural tech innovation and opening up more extensive global collaboration opportunities.
Daniel Novitzkas, CEO of Specno, comments:
&#8220;Specno isn&#8217;t simply coming to Sweden to do business. We are dedicated to contributing to and nurturing Sweden&#8217;s vibrant innovation ecosystem. Specno&#8217;s expansion is mutually beneficial for both parties. The South African agency gains access to Qgroup&#8217;s pool of 850 consultants, significantly enhancing its capacity to take on large-scale projects. Conversely, Qgroup can leverage Specno&#8217;s expertise and insights to explore potential opportunities in Africa&#8217;s growing tech market.&#8221;
For more information about Qgroup&#8217;s investment in Specno and the upcoming expansion into Sweden, please visit <a href="https://q.group/">q.group</a> and <a href="https://www.specno.com/">www.specno.com.</a>
Press contact:
Mikael Kretz, Founder 
mikael.kretz@qgroup.se 
+46 708 70 75 00 
<a href="https://q.group/">Q.group</a>
About Qgroup
Qgroup is a global group consisting of independent and highly specialized IT consulting companies that operate under their brands. Since starting in 2012 in Malmö, the Group has expanded significantly through 30 organically started companies that had sales of SEK 629 million in 2022. Qgroup works with a clear growth strategy focusing on recruiting and developing driven entrepreneurs to create and build companies around them and their competencies. Today, Qgroup operates in 11 countries and 20 locations around Europe, North America, Asia and Africa.
About Specno
Specno is a leading software and design agency known for its innovative approach to building successful tech ventures. The company has developed a unique framework for building and scaling software ventures, a formula they aim to distribute to one million entrepreneurs worldwide.
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<li>Specno employs around 50 people and is based in Capetown, South Africa.</li>
<li>With an ambition to be globally recognized, Specno has proven its competence by ranking as the number one agency in South Africa and the 30th globally on Clutch.co.</li>
<li>Co-founded by Daniel Novitzkas and Jacques Jordaan, who has built and accelerated over 150 tech ventures for corporations and entrepreneurs in its five-year history. This includes numerous successful fundraisers and exits.</li>
<li>Specno&#8217;s track record of helping ventures secure funding is significant, as it indicates its deep understanding of the technological and financial aspects of launching and scaling tech startups.</li>
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Qgroup Scholarship Awarded to Marama

Since 2014, Qgroup has awarded selected students with the Qgroup Scholarship. Recipients are graduates of the Master&#8217;s Program in Entrepreneurship &amp; Innovation at Lund University.
This year, the Qgroup Scholarship is awarded to Marama (Adriaan Lombard, Ayesha Khalid, and Ruben Van den Berg) for the following reasons:
&#8220;This year&#8217;s Qgroup Award goes to a team with a dual value proposition. On the one hand, they have a clear profit motive; on the other, they are passionate about supporting and empowering local communities. They have clearly shown how they create and deliver value for their stakeholders and customers.&#8221;
They refer to themselves not as a team but as a family.

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