inCentea’s Almería Acquisition Brings Faster IT Support and Leiria Jobs

The Portugal-based tech group inCentea has bought Dragomar of Almería, a move that cements the Leiria company’s footprint across Iberia while pledging fresh investment in cloud-based business software.

Why This Matters

• Faster support for Portuguese exporters: the enlarged network lets firms in Aveiro or Braga open Spanish customer files without waiting days for a consultant to drive up from Leiria.

• More jobs in Portugal’s interior: inCentea plans to staff its back-office and R&D teams from Leiria after the deal, not from Lisbon.

• Cross-border billing gets simpler: Dragomar brings deep know-how in Cegid XRP Enterprise, the same ERP stack used by many mid-size factories in Portugal; integration means fewer license fees and a single Iberian help-desk.

• Storm-proof digital infrastructure: lessons from January’s storm Kristin are pushing the company—and its clients—to adopt off-site backups and redundant fibre links.

Iberian Tech Ambitions Accelerate

With Dragomar’s ten-person team on board, inCentea now runs offices in Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, Lugo and Almería and supports more than €3 M in annual Spanish revenue. Rui Silva, the board member steering the group’s overseas push, says the acquisition doubles the firm’s certified consultants on Cegid’s cloud ERP, a niche where licensing margins reach 35 %, well above traditional hardware resale.

Throughout 2025, inCentea had already folded in the Angolan unit of competitor F3M and hinted at further buys in Catalonia. By stitching together these boutiques rather than building from scratch, the Leiria group claims it can reach critical mass three years earlier and at roughly half the cost.

Dragomar: Why Andalusia Matters

Andalusia may sit four hours from the Portuguese border, yet it houses Spain’s largest fishing fleet, agro-industry hubs around Almería and Málaga—and thousands of SME clients that still rely on on-premise accounting software. Dragomar’s specialty module for the sea-food supply chain will now be offered to Portuguese fish processors in Peniche, Figueira da Foz and Setúbal, promising unified traceability from trawler to supermarket.

Founded in 2010 by Daniel Martínez Góngora, Dragomar posted roughly €700 k in sales last year. Its intimate customer relationships, built on site visits instead of call-centre scripts, were a primary allure for inCentea, which has struggled in the past to dislodge local providers south of Madrid.

Kristin’s Aftermath: Building Resilience

The deal closed barely two weeks after Depression Kristin punched a hole through inCentea’s headquarters roof, knocked out power and flooded meeting rooms. The incident forced 35 engineers to scatter across Nerlei’s offices, Startup Leiria and home setups, while Lisbon, Porto and Braga branches absorbed phone support.

Management admits the chaos sped up a long-planned shift toward redundant cloud hosting, battery storage and satellite back-up links—services it now intends to upsell. According to district officials, some 39 000 Leiria residents were still facing intermittent electricity on 11 February; clients that had migrated to cloud by then reported near-zero downtime.

Eyes on Brazil and Beyond

Spain is only half the story. inCentea confirmed it is in "advanced formalities" to purchase a mid-sized software integrator in Curitiba, Brazil, with an announcement due before the end of February. Latin America already contributes more than €5 M to group turnover, and the board’s five-year plan targets €50 M in consolidated revenue by 2028, split evenly between Portugal and foreign markets.

At home, the company recently sold off non-core telecom units Voznet and Teleleiria to fund more specialised acquisitions. EY’s Iniciativa Vanguard consultancy helped map out which assets stayed and which went—a signal of the disciplined M&A playbook investors like to see.

What This Means for Residents

Cheaper cross-border IT support: SMEs in Guarda or Viana do Castelo that ship goods to Spain can now plug into a single Iberian help-desk, cutting call-out fees by as much as 20 %.

New tech jobs outside Lisbon: inCentea confirmed that most of the next 50 hires tied to the Dragomar deal will sit in Leiria, where salaries stretch further than in the capital.

Resilient business continuity templates: after Kristin’s blackout, inCentea is bundling emergency power audits and off-site backups into its ERP contracts—SMEs can adopt the same playbook without hiring consultants from scratch.

Competitive grants know-how: Dragomar acted as a digital-agent for Spain’s "Kit Digital" programme; its specialists will now help Portuguese firms navigate PRR and "Portugal 2030" subsidy paperwork.

For residents and business owners, the bottom line is simple: a local champion is turning storm damage into expansion fuel, and the knock-on effect could be swifter, more affordable digital services on both sides of the border.