BT has announced plans to pump £30m into Distributed, the tech freelancing startup that helps businesses transform digital systems.
BT has taken a stake in the startup and technology executive at BT, Mark Murphy, will be on the board.
It is a “huge milestone” for the company, said Callum Adamson the head of the group.
BT is undergoing a modernisation effort after Harmeen Mehta became the group’s chief digital and innovation officer last year.
Mehta said that investing £30m in the startup Distributed would “accelerate the digital revolution within BT and help to make it and the UK a key hub for the digital innovation economy.”