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Jamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 shared thisToday I would like to introduce Managed.com, our platform for the agentic AI era. When I started HostPapa in 2006, the mission was simple: give small businesses the best web hosting experience anywhere. Over twenty years the products may have changed, cloud, WordPress, enterprise-grade email, but the mission never did. We grew organically and by acquiring companies we believed in and integrating them onto our HostPapa platform, and became one of the largest independently owned providers in our market. In 2023 we added Deluxe Corporation’s web hosting and logo design businesses, along with ColoCrossing, our infrastructure company, and Hostopia, the wholesale delivery platform hundreds of partners rely on to serve millions of customers. We followed up on this in 2025 by acquiring CloudBlue from Ingram Micro (known in our industry for years as Parallels and Odin), a channel commerce enablement and automation platform supporting hundreds of channel partners and with hundreds of ISVs in its marketplace. Now we bring it all together. Managed.com is the common foundation our brands are building on. What stays? Our brands, their names and their customers. What changes? One company, one direction, and one platform built to deliver more for the AI era than any single brand could alone. Why now? Because AI is changing what businesses need from us. Small businesses expect outcomes, not tools: a website that gets found by humans and by agents, a store that sells with AI agents assisting, an inbox that runs itself. Enterprises and developers want infrastructure to run their AI models and workloads. Partners want billing built for the AI era across their entire channel, and sales enablement to offer AI-first services under their own name without having to build it alone. That is what Managed.com is: our customers and partners winning in the agentic AI era, while we manage the software, systems and infrastructure it runs on, so they can focus on their core mission. Behind all of it is the same experienced operating team that built these brands and runs them today: 750+ people in 40 countries, one company. More to come in the weeks ahead! Press release: https://lnkd.in/gkAfDaN8
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Jamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 shared thisA new chapter begins. We are privileged to have the opportunity to bring this technology back to its entrepreneurial roots... excited to share the vision and roadmap for the future of this platform..more to follow…Jamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 shared thisWe’re thrilled to announce that HostPapa has officially completed the acquisition of CloudBlue. This strategic move expands our product offering - especially in the mid, large, and enterprise segments. It also strengthens our ability to offer our partners advanced subscription and pricing tools. What this means: - Accelerated speed to market - An extensive library of cloud products and services for our partners to offer to their customers - Access to new markets around the world Welcome to a new era of cloud innovation with HostPapa. For more details about this acquisition, please visit the Press Release: https://zurl.co/qdcEg #Acquisition #HostPapa #CloudBlue #Growth #BusinessUpdate #Partners #Innovation
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Jamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 shared this🚀 Big News from HostPapa - We’re excited to share that HostPapa has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the CloudBlue business from Ingram Micro. This is more than a one-off acquisition — it’s a transformative step that further advances HostPapa’s evolution into a full-service digital solutions platform! It’s also a return to the roots for the CloudBlue business. As many of you will remember, CloudBlue originated in the web hosting and cloud industry, built by visionary entrepreneurs under the Parallels and Odin brands. Today, that pioneering spirit is coming home. By merging CloudBlue with Hostopia, our partner business, we’re creating a next-generation platform, purpose-built for ISVs, Telcos, MSPs, resellers, and hyperscalers, that will be led by Jorge Carvalho and a highly experienced management team. 📈 For our partners, this means: •You’ll gain access to CloudBlue Connect – a powerful platform with over 450 pre-built integrations enabling automated provisioning, subscription billing, and multi-tier partner orchestration. •Together with Hostopia’s service infrastructure, we’ll deliver a fully integrated, white-label marketplace and monetization engine designed to reduce your time-to-market, increase recurring revenue, and power bundled service delivery at scale. •Whether you're an ISV looking to accelerate global distribution, a Telco needing scalable automation, or a hyperscaler expanding your SMB reach — this platform is being built with your needs at the center. We’re doubling down on innovation in partner enablement, including AI-powered and outcome-based solutions — this combination creates a massive opportunity to reshape how digital solutions are distributed, monetized, and scaled, and we can’t wait to share our vision with our partners. A huge thank you to everyone who helped bring this to life — especially Tom Parker, Irtiaz Ahmad, David Woolford, Michael Carr, Morgan Fine, and the incredible teams behind the scenes. And most importantly, a warm welcome to all the CloudBlue team members joining our HostPapa family. We're thrilled to have you onboard and excited for the journey ahead! https://lnkd.in/e87YY6KS #CloudBlue #HostPapa #Hostopia #PartnerPlatforms #SaaS #SubscriptionEconomy #DigitalSolutions #MergersAndAcquisitions #DigitalTransformation #ChannelPartners #Cloud #Commerce #MSPs #ISVs #Telcos #CloudCommerce #TechNews
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Jamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 posted this🚀 Big Milestone at HostPapa - financing for our continued growth! We’re proud to announce the successful closing of a $130M USD senior secured syndicated credit facility — with potential to upsize for future growth — led by Bank of Montreal, and joined by The Toronto-Dominion Bank through its TD Innovation Partners division, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, N.A., Canadian branch, and the Business Development Bank of Canada. This funding represents a significant step forward in accelerating our mission: helping business owners grow through smarter, AI-enabled digital tools. Importantly, HostPapa remains a privately held, founder-led company, with deep Canadian roots and an established presence around the world, that continues to operate with the entrepreneurial spirit that has fueled our growth since day one. A huge thank you to the incredible team who made this happen: •Tom Parker – SVP, Corporate Development at HostPapa •Danesh Waheed and Thomas Martin – key leaders in our finance team •Irtiaz Ahmad Our banking partners, including: •Bank of Montreal: Paulina Kursa, Daniel Pichini, CPA, CA, Gregory Mancina and Olivia D'Arolfi, CPA •The Toronto-Dominion Bank through its TD Innovation Partners division:: Shez Samji, Justin Whiteside, Mark Kiyonaga and Alida Kanani, CPA ��Royal Bank of Canada: Dov Mileevsky, Elana Abramovitch, Greg Lagerquist, CPA, CA and Richard Lo •Citibank, N.A., Canadian branch: Casey Coates, Jacob Berlinkov, MBA, MFE , Stephanie Lem, Ashley Scales and Caitlin Dressel •Business Development Bank of Canada: David Wearing, Rahul Baswan and Conor Jefferies, CFA And legal support for HostPapa led by David Woolford, with additional guidance from Maria Sagan Sagan, McMillan LLP, and legal support for the lenders led by Alex North, Mintz This is a strong vote of confidence in our platform, our team, and our strategy. The new capital will help us continue to build, innovate, and acquire, supporting our customers around the world with a broader set of solutions for every stage of their journey. https://lnkd.in/eE7BhxSm #HostPapa #GrowthCapital #SaaS #DigitalSolutions #DigitalTransformation #AIEnablement #AITools #BusinessSoftware #FounderLed #PrivateCompany #Innovation #AcquisitionStrategy #ThankYouTeam
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Jamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 shared thisI would like to extend my gratitude and appreciation to Christian Jaeger, Soeren von Varchmin and Jochen Berger as well as the entire Cloudfest team for putting on a truly epic event with CloudFest 2023. Without a doubt it was the best #cloudfest ever. For me personally, it was incredible to see some old friends in person once again and meet up with some new ones. Truthfully, it was nice just to survive the Colosseo bar! It was also great to catchup with some amazing hosting colleagues and fellow entrepreneurs such as Jonas Dhaenens, Arnas Stuopelis, Emil Falcon, Michael Torner, Joe Demase and Norbert van der Knaap. It was also wonderful to be able to meet up with some of our strategic partners, who we could not be the company we are without them including: Robert Bray, Oren Avrumov, Brent Viljoen, Ridley Ruth and David Woroch. Always fun to meet up with some of the legends in this industry and share some old war stories including Matt Russell, Hillary Stiff, Frank Stiff, Michael Fowler, Freek Dix, David Meers, James Langman, Michael Carr and Andy Mentges. It was sad to see some of the legends that could not make it this year, Tom Serani, Trevor Harries-Jones, Milovan Milic, Mitch Haber and Ricardo Lasa. Even though I’m part of the old guard now, it's exciting to see some of the amazing talent that will take this industry to the next level in their own respective way for years to come. Young guns such as Jonathan Horne, Patrick Duke-Rosati, Ben Gabler, Judah Johns and Munir B.. Sorry to those I did not get a chance to meet up with at this event. Hopefully, we will get some time to spend together in Austin. Also, my sincerest apologies if I did not include your name on this post, trust me I truly appreciate the time we spent together. Linkedin also limits the amount of "mentions" in any given post. On behalf of the entire extended Hostpapa/Deluxe/Hostopia team that attending this event including Jorge Carvalho, Sylvain Patry, Tim Evans, Ed Casillas, Gino Cardenas and Lou Nikiforovski, we are truly grateful to be part of this wonderful industry and build relationships with some amazing people. Cheers, Jamie #cloudfest #hosting #cloud #amazing #entrepreneurship P.S. By the way, I have to come clean. I had ChatGPT generate this message as I really can’t stand any of you guys :)
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Jamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 shared thisA perfect selection David - a Canadian hero to be placed on our $5 bill. Terry Fox remains an inspiration for all Canadians. Over four decades since we lost Terry, his annual Marathon of Hope has raised over $850 Million to fund Cancer research. Let’s honour Terry’s legacy and place him on the $5 dollar note. #inspiration #canada #TerryFox #5DollarBillJamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 shared thisI renew my call for Terry Fox to be selected to be honoured on our five dollar bill. He continues to be an inspiration to all Canadians to this day. "After losing part of his right leg (15 cm above the knee) due to cancer, Terry Fox campaigned to raise national awareness and funding for cancer research by running his Marathon of Hope, a cross-Canada 42-km daily run, on his prosthetic leg. By February 1981, $24.7 million had been raised—or $1 for every Canadian. His run was interrupted after he had covered 5,373 kilometres. The cancer had returned, reaching his lungs, and ultimately took his life. Today, annual Terry Fox Runs are held all over the world to raise money for cancer research. In 2020, the Marathon of Hope commemorated its 40th anniversary." #5dollarbill #inspiration #greatcanadian #TerryFox #leadership
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Jamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 shared thisIt’s a big day here at HostPapa! I’m excited to announce the acquisition of Deluxe Corporation’s web hosting, cloud and logo brands including Hostopia, ColoCrossing, Managed (.com) and Logomix. I would also like to extend a warm welcome to all the Deluxe staff, customers, channel partners, resellers and strategic vendors to the HostPapa family. We are looking forward to the many great opportunities ahead in our shared future! https://lnkd.in/gkyWqMZv #HostPapa #webhosting #cloud #deluxe #entrepreneurs
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Jamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 shared thisWe must all act NOW to help stop the aggression, human rights violations, and potential International war crimes of Putin and the Russian regime. We are in the midst of a humanitarian disaster. At the time of this writing, over half a million Ukrainian citizens have been displaced from their homes. Families have been torn apart and thousands have unnecessarily perished in a needless war. Russia and Belarus have been placed on the sanctions list of the Canadian government. At HostPapa and our other companies, It has been our policy not to accept clients from any of these sanctioned countries. However, we have identified a handful of clients that originate from the Russian Federation and from Belarus. We have begun actively notifying these customers that their services will be removed from our network. Although we recognize that everyday citizens of Russia and Belarus are not directly responsible for the actions of their government and that they may personally not agree with their egregious actions. Unfortunately it is their authoritarian governments who are committing these human rights violations. We will also be waiving all fees for HostPapa customers located in Ukraine for at least the remainder of 2022. I am also pleading with everyone to do their part to support democracy and freedom for Ukrainians whose lives have been disrupted and who are fighting in the streets to defend their country. Please take action now through supporting the resistance efforts and democratically elected President Zelensky. Save the sovereignty and freedom of Ukraine from once again falling into the hands of tyranny. Let’s not let history repeat itself in Europe. Please give what you can to provide your support for Ukraine and their efforts to restore peace and democracy in thief homeland: https://lnkd.in/egCGp4X9 хай живе україна (Long Live Ukraine) #ukraine #peaceNBU Opens Special Account to Raise Funds for Ukraine’s Armed Forces (updated)NBU Opens Special Account to Raise Funds for Ukraine’s Armed Forces (updated)
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Jamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 liked thisJamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 liked thisI’m heading to MSP GLOBAL with the Blackwall team and looking forward to catching up with partners, friends and new faces from the MSP, hosting and cloud community. If you’re attending, I’d be glad to grab a coffee and exchange ideas around how MSPs and hosting providers can: 🔹 protect customer websites and applications from malicious bots, scraping, fake logins and other automated abuse 🔹 reduce unnecessary infrastructure load and bot-related support issues 🔹 build website protection into their managed services — and turn security into an additional revenue stream At Blackwall, we’re particularly focused on giving service providers the ability to run this protection inside their own infrastructure, keeping traffic and control within their environment. Not registered yet? You can use pVvyR9Xg to get a FREE Attendee Standard Pass. If you’ll be at MSP Global, drop me a message — happy to arrange a meeting in advance. #MSPGlobal #MSP #ManagedServices #Hosting #Cybersecurity #BotManagement #Blackwall
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Jamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 liked thisJamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 liked thisBlackwall has crossed the €1 billion valuation, rising 368% in a single year. TopTech 2026 now values the Estonian cybersecurity company at €1.03 billion, up from roughly €221 million, moving Blackwall from ninth to fifth among Estonia’s most valuable technology companies. The figure is an independent implied valuation based on Blackwall’s revenue performance and comparable cybersecurity multiples. Co-Founded by Nikita Rozenberg and Denis Prochko, Blackwall builds security infrastructure for hosting providers, cloud platforms and enterprise networks. Its flagship GateKeeper filters malicious bots, L7 DDoS attacks and other unwanted traffic before it reaches the application layer. The scale is already significant: Blackwall says GateKeeper protects 2.3M+ websites and applications, works with 100+ service and hosting partners, and operates across more than 30 countries. What stands out is where the value is being created. As automated traffic grows, bot protection is becoming less of a security add-on and more of a core infrastructure layer for hosting economics, performance and resilience. Congratulations to Nik Rozenberg, Denis Prochko, Martin Pawliczek, Makoto Nishizawa, Maria Markopoulou , Robert Jacobi and the entire Blackwall team on the milestone. Follow Tech Lens Media for the companies shaping cybersecurity, AI infrastructure and Europe’s technology ecosystem. #TechLensMedia #Cybersecurity #WebSecurity #AIInfrastructure #EstonianTech
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Jamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 liked thisJamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 liked thisTrust follows accuracy. As MSPs scale AI services, most teams focus on capability. Far fewer focus on unit economics. On stage at MSP Summit, CloudBlue's Tarik Faouzi joined an expert panel to address a critical industry challenge: margin leakage. Key insights from the discussion: 🔹 The AI Pricing Shift: AI consumption isn't linear. Legacy seat-based pricing models fail to capture true delivery costs. 🔹 Connected Billing: Disconnects between usage tracking, pricing tiers, and invoicing quietly erode profitability. 🔹 Trust & Accuracy: Client trust relies on transparent, accurate billing as service complexity increases. Thank you to fellow panelists Tom Neclerio from SilverSky and Meaghan Reinecke from N-able, and moderator Jason Rincker from New Charter for an engaging session. Let's keep the conversation going. Book a 1:1 with Tarik 👉 https://lnkd.in/de6JbWft #MSPSummit26 #CloudBlue #MSPs #ManagedServices #AIOperations
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Jamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 liked thisJamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 liked thisLive from MSP Summit , I spoke with Tarik Faouzi of CloudBlue about what monetizing AI will really require from MSPs. His central argument: the MSP of the AI era will increasingly become a “managed outcome provider.” Customers won’t simply pay for seats, hours or software. They’ll increasingly want to pay for outcomes — and that changes the economics of managed services. MSPs will need the ability to build their own AI-powered offerings, price them correctly, meter consumption in real time and understand exactly what compute is costing them. That last point is critical. AI consumption can move quickly. Without real-time visibility and commercial guardrails, an apparently profitable AI service can become expensive very fast. Faouzi also sees predictability as essential to AI adoption. Customers need to understand what they’re consuming, what it costs and what business outcome they’re receiving. UponAI+ sponsored Technology Reseller News #Podcast Bill (PhoneBill) McClain Donna Renee Larsen Moshe B. Jeff Pulver Evan Kirstel Andy Abramson MSP Summit #MSPSummit #MSP #AI #ManagedServices #CloudBlue #Channel #ArtificialIntelligence
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Jamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 liked thisJamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 liked thisI'll be at Canalys Forums EMEA in Barcelona, October 6–8, and I'd welcome the chance to meet in person. On October 8 at 9:30 AM, I'll join Schneider Electric and Zscaler on the Expert Hub panel, "The Decade of the Ecosystem Economy: Thriving Through Collaboration," to discuss how vendor-partner relationships are shifting from transactional to co-creative models. Outside the panel, CloudBlue will have a dedicated meeting space on meeting tables and a private cabana for 1:1 conversations about ecosystem collaboration, changing channel economics, and what AI monetisation looks like in practice. If that's of interest, you can book a time that works for you here: https://lnkd.in/eVhrc5Tr #CanalysForumsEMEA26 #EcosystemEconomy #ChannelPartners #CloudBlue
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Jamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 liked thisJamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 liked thisSince 2012, Devtech has built the digital platforms technology companies run on. Marketplaces, integrations, the systems their revenue flows through. Today we are opening early access to Devtech Forge AI, our agentic AI platform for building your digital workforce. Forge holds continuous, evolving context about your company. Agents execute actions across the systems you already run. Your data stays yours, and in the region you choose, including at inference. Priced per agent and per seat, per month. No usage-based token meters. Every customer gets a dedicated instance, so we are taking a limited number to start. Request early access: https://devtechforge.ai
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Jamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 liked thisJamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 liked thisSay hello to numeral.com 🚀 Same great sales tax solution. Shorter URL.
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Jamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 liked thisJamie Opalchuk 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 liked thisIn 1981, my father opened one resort in Montego Bay with a very big idea: that something built in the Caribbean could stand with the very best in the world. Today, that idea takes another important step forward. Sandals Resorts and Royal Caribbean Group have signed an agreement to form a new partnership, bringing together two companies with deep Caribbean roots, globally recognized brands, and a shared belief in the power of exceptional hospitality. Royal Caribbean Group understands what our team has built, what these brands mean to our guests, and the responsibility that comes with carrying that legacy forward. They bring tremendous global strength and experience, while respecting the very things that make Sandals and Beaches who we are. And those things are not changing. Sandals will remain Sandals. Beaches will remain Beaches. Our home is the Caribbean. Our people remain at the heart of everything we do. Our travel advisor partners remain an essential part of our success. And the warmth, care and hospitality our guests have known for more than four decades will continue to define us. What does change is the scale of what we can imagine next. This partnership gives us greater capacity to grow faster, reach more people and take two brands born in the Caribbean to more places around the world. My father always believed we were just getting started. I think he would be incredibly proud of where that belief has taken us today. To our team members, our guests, our travel advisors and everyone who has been part of this journey, thank you. There is so much more ahead. One love, Adam To read the full announcement, please visit: https://news.sandals.com *Subject to customary closing conditions; expected early 2027.
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