On Tuesday, June 23, technology consulting firm Nava announced the acquisition of a majority stake in CS Global IT, a company specializing in cloud computing solutions. This is Nava's third acquisition in less than a year and is part of the company's growth and consolidation strategy adopted after the investment from Crescera Capital in 2024.
With an eye on reaching R$1 billion in revenue by 2030, the expectation is that new M&As are on the horizon. “We have a roadmap of priorities to complement our portfolio and strengthen our presence in certain sectors of the economy,” says André Scatolini, CEO of Nava, to NeoFeed . “We expect new M&As both in the second half of the year and in early 2027.”
The agreement stipulates that Carlos Sampaio, founder and CEO of CS Global IT, will remain with the company and assume responsibility for Nava's multicloud vertical, reporting to the vice president of cloud , platforms, and digital operations. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded 17 years ago, with operations in four countries and clients such as Gol , Cemig , and Santander , CS operates as a boutique specializing in mission-critical cloud engineering, multi-cloud environment management, and cloud governance.
The company's platform allows customers to access different hyperscaler services, choosing the solutions best suited to the various areas of their business.
Nava had been in talks with CS for about nine months before closing the deal. Scatolini states that the company had been seeking an asset to complement its cloud and cloud governance portfolio for some time, but was finding it difficult to identify a target that didn't simply represent "more of the same" in terms of the competencies it already possessed.
According to him, CS arrives to complement the cloud unit by adding consulting expertise and agnostic integration capabilities, expanding Nava's service offering and strengthening its performance throughout the infrastructure and multicloud journey of its clients.
“We brought CS in with the vision of helping clients in the process of modernizing legacy systems, supporting them more on the logical and consultative layer than simply on the physical part,” says Scatolini.
He also sees the operation as an important step in expanding the company's reach to large organizations in the financial, insurance, energy, and healthcare sectors, with which Nava already works through digital consulting services.
The acquisition also aims to accelerate Nava's revenue growth. Before embarking on M&As, the company was expanding its business organically and growing at an accelerated pace: between 2020 and 2025, its revenue grew from R$90 million to approximately R$400 million. The expectation for this year was not revealed.
With the M&As, the pace of expansion gains traction. The expectation is that CS will triple its cloud revenue within three years.
The incorporation of CS, coupled with the acquisitions of the branding and brand strategy consultancy GH Brandtech in November, and Ventura ERM, specializing in cybersecurity, in January, consolidates Nava's trajectory of inorganic growth.
With more M&As planned, the expectation is that the new assets will help shorten the path to billion-dollar revenue. "I would say we are halfway to our goal," says Scatolini.
