Midnyte City gets acquired by Portable

Melbourne-based Midnyte City has been acquired by Collingwood-based design and technology company Portable.

Founded by Hannah Browne in 2020, Midynte City specialises in embedding technology practitioners across infrastructure, SRE, observability, and DevOps.

The Midnyte City team will now be the fifth delivery team at Portable, sitting alongside product, design services, video and motion graphic capabilities.

As with all companies that join Portable, Midnyte City will continue to operate as its own group with the aim to grow and deepen the team’s capability over the next year.
 
The company claimed that organisations already working with Portable now have access to "deeper technical expertise", and for companies building or scaling digital capability, Midnyte City's team can embed within them, as well as help establish technical practice, grow engineering leaders and team capability and build systems.

For organisations already working with Midnyte City, Portable touted greater "depth of delivery and strategic capability" as benefits of the acquisition.

“When we started building Midnyte City we learnt very quickly that CTOs and technology leaders need engineers who can cut code and mentor people concurrently,” said Browne.

“They need people who can very quickly understand the organisational strategy and how that translates to what the team is delivering. We’ve been able to do this consistently, over and over again and I think this is what has made Midnyte so invaluable to the tech community.”

“I am so thrilled to have Midnyte City join the team at Portable. From the very first time we met there was such a clear alignment of vision, mission, and how we work together that it was obvious we should explore working more closely together."

Portable’s co-founder and CEO, Andrew Apostola, said the introduction of Midnyte City to Portable is complementary to the company’s existing offering in digital product and design.

“Hannah has built such an extraordinary culture of technical leadership at Midnyte City and I’m excited to grow that capability with her existing and impressive group of clients but also extend that to the clients we work with in State and Federal Government as well as into the NFP sector," he explained.

"I also think our leadership in product and design can directly translate into the very same companies that Midnyte is currently working with so it’s a really symbiotic relationship from the beginning."

Midnyte City was 43rd in the techpartner.news 2023 Fast 50 rankings.