Zitec takes over Under Development Office, a developer of mobile & blockchain applications

Zitec, leader on the IT & Digital Marketing market in Romania, specialized in the development of digital transformation solutions and services, recently took over the team and portfolio of Under Development Office, a software development agency specialized in mobile applications and one of the most popular companies. blockchain development in Europe, which has sold over 1.5 million euros in the last three years.

For Zitec, the takeover of the Under Development Office aimed at both expanding the client portfolio and growing the team, as the founding members of the company and the team of specialists in mobile application development, design and blockchain joined the Zitec team. The takeover is part of a series of such actions, after, starting with 2016, Zitec assimilated the teams and portfolios of Inotec and Cloud Bit, but also the teams and portfolios of the Bright and Symbolic agencies at the end of 2019.

“By taking over the Under Development Office team, will help us accelerate the development of Zitec’s capabilities to develop mobile solutions, but also expand our range of services in the blockchain development area, where Udev has extensive global market expertise and where we anticipate interesting projects. in the next period. We are honored by the decision of the clients from Udev’s portfolio to continue the collaboration with Zitec. In the new formula, they have access to a larger team, with increased expertise, which offers complete services in the digital area, from consulting and software development, to UX and Digital Marketing “, said Alexandru Lăpușan, CEO & Founding Partner of Zitec.

Under Development Office was founded in 2011 by Iulian Oprea, Ștefan Gergely and Dan Cernau. The company has successfully completed over 100 projects that have included the design and development of web and mobile applications for clients such as Carrefour, BRD, Medicover, Transavia, Auchan or Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange. The agency is also famous as one of the first and most popular blockchain development companies in Europe, with projects in various fields such as transport, banking, fintech, digital identity, lifestyle & entertainment.

“After almost 10 years of learning how to build value for customers in the mobile and blockchain development markets across Europe, we have fully joined the Zitec team to work together to provide customers with a full range of services in the digital area. and to support people and their organizations to start or accelerate the processes of digital transformation“, added Iulian Oprea, CEO & Founding Partner Under Development Office.

“When we started collaborating with the Under Development Office, we were looking for a partner to help us build a platform through which to offer the best possible experience to our sellers and buyers. For us, the continued collaboration with the Zitec team translates into the opportunity to have access to a larger team with expertise in several services in the digital area, which will help us achieve our medium and long-term goals of being market leaders. of second-hand and reconditioned electronics from Romania“, said George Moroianu, co-founder of Flip.ro.

Flip.ro is a Romanian site through which users sell and buy used phones and which recorded sales of over 1 million euros in the first year of activity.

Zitec recently announced revenue increases for the first half of the year of over 50% over the same period in 2019. With the team as a whole in the remote work mode, Zitec has supported its customers and partners in the digital transformation, helping i to improve its efficiency in the face of increased business flow, or to overcome the negative effects of the pandemic on business. The company recorded large increases especially for the custom software and cloud solutions segments through projects developed with existing customers such as Arctic, Decathlon, Sameday, STMicroelectronics, Credit Europe Bank, Flanco, Chimpex, or new customers entering the company’s portfolio in the first half: Startarium and RGT Cycling.