Quick Left Merges with Sprintly, Inherits Two Offices on West Coast

Quick Left, a Boulder, CO-based software consulting company, is merging with Sprintly, a company that develops project management tools for software developers, the companies announced Tuesday.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the company will be named Quick Left and the company’s headquarters will be in Boulder. The deal expands Quick Left’s workforce to about 30 people and brings Sprintly’s offices in San Francisco and Portland, OR, into the Quick Left fold, Quick Left co-founder and former CEO Ingrid Alongi said.

Quick Left is one of the Boulder/Denver area’s fastest-growing tech firms, and this summer it earned a spot on the Inc. 500 list, reporting $2.8 million in 2012 revenue.

The deal will help Quick Left, which develops custom applications, websites, and mobile apps, diversify its portfolio and expand beyond being a software consultancy, Alongi said.

“For us to continue to grow and stay competitive, it certainly helps to have a product in our portfolio,” Alongi said.

By acquiring Sprintly, Quick Left will get its namesake project management software. Sprintly pitches it as a tool that keeps developers, managers, sales, and customer support teams on the same page while a product is developed. Its target customers are companies who have adopted agile programming techniques.

The Sprintly team will become Quick Left’s product team and continue to develop Sprintly and also could develop new products for Quick Left, Alongi said.

The merger resulted in a management restructuring that has executives from each company taking on new roles. Alongi will become the CEO in charge of the consulting division, while Sprintly chief strategy officer Matt Work will become the CEO of the combined company. Work is the former general manager of Pivotal Labs’ Pivotal Tracker and former CEO and founder of Cohuman and Discovery Mining.

Alongi said the decision to elevate Work to CEO takes advantage of his experience running companies while allowing her to focus on her area of expertise.

Former Sprintly CEO and founder Joe Stump will become Quick Left’s chief product officer.

Author: Michael Davidson

Michael Davidson is an award-winning journalist whose career as a business reporter has taken him from the garages of aspiring inventors to assembly centers for billion-dollar satellites. Most recently, Michael covered startups, venture capital, IT, cleantech, aerospace, and telecoms for Xconomy and, before that, for the Boulder County Business Report. Before switching to business journalism, Michael covered politics and the Colorado Legislature for the Colorado Springs Gazette and the government, police and crime beats for the Broomfield Enterprise, a paper in suburban Denver. He also worked for the Boulder Daily Camera, and his stories have appeared in the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News. Career highlights include an award from the Colorado Press Association, doing barrel rolls in a vintage fighter jet and learning far more about public records than is healthy. Michael started his career as a copy editor for the Colorado Springs Gazette's sports desk. Michael has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Michigan.