Vendor lineage
Q13 - half the revenue is public money
Brazilian integrator founded 2018, working across cloud, security, networks and collaboration.
Q13, formerly Quantum13 Solucoes em Tecnologia, is a Sao Paulo integrator founded in April 2018, covering cloud, data security, networks, collaboration and professional services including network and security operations centres.
The detail that makes it worth an entry is the revenue split: about half from government and half from enterprise. The named public clients are concentrated around Rio de Janeiro - a state legislative assembly, the state data-processing company, a municipal council, a national development bank, an electricity generator - and that mix describes a real career path in this industry that almost nothing written in English acknowledges.
Public-sector work is a distinct discipline rather than the same work with different paperwork. It runs on published tenders, price registers and defined scopes, so the winning argument is technical specification and demonstrable compliance rather than a relationship. Engineers who spend their careers in it become unusually precise about what a requirement actually says.
It is also a recent company, founded in 2018 on this timeline of firms dating to the 1960s and 1970s. The integrator model that Grupo IHC and its contemporaries invented is still being started fresh, which is the more interesting fact about it.
- RTI / Aranda, 2023 - Quantum13 Solucoes em Tecnologia, an integrator specialising in cloud, security, networks, collaboration and professional services, updated its name to Q13; founded in 2018, half its revenue comes from government and half from enterprise accounts including Volkswagen, Alerj, Furnas, Proderj, the Rio de Janeiro city council, Funarte, BNDES and Taesa; its offerings cover private, hybrid and public cloud with migration and sustaining services, data security, collaboration including private and cloud videoconferencing and voice over IP, and professional services spanning installation, maintenance, consultancy, network and security operations centres, cabling and infrastructure
- Serasa Experian company register - Quantum13 Solucoes em Tecnologia Ltda, trading as Q13 Tecnologia, CNPJ 30.161.238/0001-60, headquartered in Sao Paulo, founded 10 April 2018, registration active, principal activity wholesale of computing equipment