The Pátria-controlled data-centre developer is buying renewable power from Brazil’s largest independent generator to underwrite a 200 MW campus in Pecém, the first ByteDance facility in Latin America. Omnia, the Pátria Investimentos-backed data-centre …
The all-stock takeover, the largest power acquisition ever, gives NextEra the utility that runs Northern Virginia’s data-centre belt and consolidates the bidding power on the demand side of the AI-electricity trade. NextEra Energy has agreed to acquire…
Radical Ventures led the round, with Nvidia, Sequoia, Benchmark, Adobe, and Toyota alongside. Andrej Karpathy, Michael Eisner, and the Nintendo family are angels. Total raised is now over $450m. Decart, the AI research lab building real-time video and …
The Paris- and San Francisco-based platform’s Series B is co-led by Abstract and Sequoia, with Snowflake and Datadog participating. Total funding is now north of $60m. Dust, the Paris- and San Francisco-based enterprise AI platform, has raised a $40m S…
L Catterton has sold its majority stake at a steep discount to the DTC era’s peak valuation. Common stockholders get nothing. The Everlane board signed on Saturday. Shein, the Chinese-founded ultra-fast-fashion giant, is acquiring Everlane, the San Fra…
The Tampa-based, Sun Capital-owned software services firm is folding the SAP- and IWG-trusted UK digital agency into its Digital Experiences practice. Deal terms were not disclosed. Exadel, the Tampa-based software-development and consulting firm, has …
Europe’s largest bank is putting a dedicated facility behind Chinese solar, battery, EV and data-centre exporters expanding overseas, citing demand that has accelerated alongside the Iran war. HSBC has set up a dedicated $4bn credit facility to help Ch…
Cerebras Systems closed its first day on the Nasdaq at $311.07, up 68% from its $185 IPO price, giving the wafer-scale chip company a market capitalisation of approximately $95 billion. The offering raised $5.55 billion, making it the largest US tech I…
RJ Scaringe has raised more than $12.3 billion across three startups, and the pace is accelerating. The Rivian founder and CEO, who holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering from MIT, is now simultaneously running an electric vehicle manufacturer, an…
Eighteen48 Partners, the London-based alternative asset manager co-founded by Julien Sevaux, Tarek AbuZayyad, and Edward Clive, has closed €175 million for the first tranche of its inaugural private equity fund. The fund is targeting €350 million in …