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EdgeConneX has secured an additional US$1.9 billion in sustainability-linked financing to support its EMEA digital infrastructure expansion.
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Oxford Ionics, which is developing proprietary electronics for quantum computing, has raised £30 million in Series A funding.
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The Iliad Group has put in place three new financing facilities, representing an aggregate €5 billion with 23 leading international banks.
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Netomnia and YouFibre have secured £295 million in new funding led by DigitalBridge Investment Management.
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Cohere Technologies has closed its Series D funding round with a US$46 million raise as it brings an enhanced version of its Universal Spectrum Multiplier (USM) to the market.
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Silknet, a fixed and mobile operator in the republic of Georgia, has successfully raised US$300 million in a new bond issue.
Forthcoming events
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EQT confirms that the EQT Infrastructure V fund has held its final close at €15.7 billion in 'fee-generating assets'.
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Cyber security services firm SenseOn has sealed a $20m Series A funding round to scale its AI-driven platform globally.
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Satellite terminal manufacturer Isotropic Systems has raised US$37 million in its series B funding round.
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EQT Infrastructure V is to co-invest in EdgeConneX, alongside EQT Infrastructure, with each fund taking an equal ownership stake.
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Satellite operators Telesat has secured C$1.44 billion in investment from the Canadian government, which it said represents a "major milestone" towards completing the financing of Telesat Lightspeed.
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DATA4 is continuing its ambitious European expansion by investing over €100 million to build one of the most powerful data centres in Poland.
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Caban Systems (Caban), a provider of software-enabled energy storage and management systems for the telecoms industry, has secured investment from Ember Infrastructure (Ember).
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Principal Real Estate has sealed its first fund dedicated to developing and acquiring data centres in the US, being over-subscribed in raising $533 million from investors globally.
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EkkoSense says it has received a “seven-figure” private equity cash injection to help take its data centre cooling and energy management system global.
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Emirati telco du has secured long-term financing worth more than US$1 billion (AED 3.769 billion).
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Section, the edge as-a-service provider, has closed a $12 million series B funding round to help increase the reach of its data network services.
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Liquid Telecom has completed one of the largest dollar bond sales by an African telecoms company, raising US$840 million.
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Vantage Data Centers doubled its size in terms of markets served, and increased IT capacity by more than 90% in 2020.
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Sitetracker has raised US$42 million in its series C funding round, taking its total raise to $92 million.
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On-device edge AI developer Kneron, has secured additional strategic funding from Taipei-based electronics manufacturer Foxconn, and semiconductor producer, Winbond.
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French cloud communications provider, Ringover, has raised €10 million in its series A funding round from a single investor, Expedition Growth Capital.
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The Orange Digital Ventures portfolio has been folded into Orange Ventures as the latter was confirmed as a legally independent entity with a multi-million Euro budget.
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The first space-based network to connect directly to 4G and 5G smartphones has received a multi-million-dollar funding boost for the first phase of its commercial launch.
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US-based start-up EdgeQ Inc has reached the US$51million funding milestone, paving the way for it to converge 5G connectivity and AI compute onto a “system-on-a-chip”.
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NS1 has gained US$40 million in funding and a new board member, following its Series D venture round led by Energy Impact Partners (EIP).
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The Trans Europe Asia System (TEAS), a Europe to India data transport infrastructure project, has reached a new milestone following a collaboration between Stonecourt Capital and Cinturion Corp Ltd.
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The tech giants have been a partner in India’s digitization journey since 2004, with the opening of its first offices in Hyderabad and Bangalore.
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Saudi Arabia's multi-million investment fund is reportedly building a stake in BT Group.
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Orange has unveiled the Orange Ventures MEA Seed Challenge to support entrepreneurs in Africa and the Middle East to launch and develop an enterprise working in new technologies.