Harness Raises $240M to Accelerate AI-Powered Software Delivery
📅 - Harness has announced a $240 million Series E financing round led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives. The funding round values the software delivery platform provider at $5.5 billion and positions it to expand its global footprint and strengthen its "AI for everything after code" strategy.
Harness plans to use the new capital to accelerate product innovation, expand its AI agent ecosystem, and invest in new regions across North America, EMEA, and APAC. The company says the funding will also support deeper integration between the AI platform layers and continued development of capabilities designed to meet compliance and regulatory demands in industries such as finance, healthcare, and public [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Antin Buys NorthC to Expand European Data Center Portfolio - Antin Infrastructure Partners is set to make one of Europe's most significant data center acquisitions of the year, announcing that it will acquire NorthC Datacenters, a fast-growing enterprise colocation platform operating across the Netherlands, Germany, and Switzerland.
The deal, conducted through Antin's €10.2 billion Flagship Fund V, positions the private equity firm to deepen its footprint in digital infrastructure amid accelerating demand for high-quality colocation capacity and AI-ready facilities.
NorthC, headquartered in Amsterdam, has grown into one of Northwest Europe's most prominent regional colocation providers since its formation in 2019 through the merger of two Dutch [...]
📅 - Kevlinx Data Centers Activates AI-Ready Brussels Facility - Kevlinx Data Centers, a newly established European data center operator specializing in high-density and AI-optimized digital infrastructure, has brought its 32MW flagship BRU01 facility in Brussels fully online, marking a significant expansion of next-generation data center capacity in one of Europe's most strategically important markets.
The company - backed by Macquarie Capital as lead investor and with Flemish investment company PMV and infrastructure fund EPICo² as majority investors - is positioning itself to support enterprises accelerating AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and mission-critical workloads amid rising demands for sovereign, sustainable infrastructure across [...]
📅 - Munters Scores $90M+ U.S. Cooling Order as AI Demand Grows - Munters' data center cooling business has secured a major foothold in the U.S. colocation market with a new order valued at approximately 840 million SEK (over $90 million). The Swedish climate-control company announced that its Data Center Technologies (DCT) division will supply a suite of high-efficiency chillers and related services to a new, unnamed data center customer in the United States.
Deliveries are scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2026 and extend through the first quarter of 2027, with production handled at the company's recently expanded facility in Virginia.
The agreement, which will be booked in Munters' order intake for the fourth quarter of 2025, includes [...]
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📅 - Netskope Beats Earnings, Accelerates Channel-Led SASE Growth - Netskope has delivered its first earnings report since going public in September, presenting results that exceeded market expectations on both revenue and profitability. The cloud security and SASE provider reported third-quarter revenue meaningfully above analyst forecasts, paired with narrower losses than anticipated.
The results sparked interest across the cybersecurity and infrastructure markets, where competition remains intense and dominated by well-capitalized incumbents. Netskope's leadership highlighted several major customer wins during the quarter, including a global top-20 enterprise and another within the global top-200, underscoring the company's momentum in securing [...]
📅 - Microsoft Opens Quantum Lab in Denmark to Advance Scalable Systems - Microsoft is deepening its long-term commitment to quantum research in Europe with the opening of a significantly expanded Quantum Lab in Lyngby, Denmark - now the company's largest quantum research site globally. The facility represents more than DKK 1 billion (~$150M) in cumulative investment and marks a pivotal step in the company's pursuit of scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computing, an ambition that has moved from theoretical physics toward engineering reality over the past two decades.
The Lyngby expansion arrives at a moment when both industry and governments increasingly view quantum technologies as foundational to future competitiveness. For Microsoft, the upgraded lab reflects [...]