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Latest round
Venture round
Sep 2025 · 13 mo ago
Hiring now
6
open roles
The money's age
Due for its next round
13 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 10, 2025 Raised a round Venture round Jan 6, 2025 Raised a round Venture round Jun 24, 2024 Raised a round Venture round Mar 15, 2024 Raised a round Venture round May 26, 2023 Raised a round Venture round Jul 8, 2022 Raised a round Venture round Jan 26, 2022 Raised a round Venture round Aug 20, 2021 Raised a round Venture round Jan 8, 2019 Incorporated KAO DATA LIMITED · Companies House 2015 Founded
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Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Sep 2025 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Jan 2025 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Jun 2024 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Mar 2024 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round May 2023 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Jul 2022 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Jan 2022 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Aug 2021 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity KAO DATA LIMITED Companies House
Registered 8 Jan 2019
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Overview

Kao Data is a British company founded in 2015 that builds data centres engineered for high performance and artificial intelligence computing. Its Harlow campus sits on the historic site of Nobel Prize winning fibre optic research and runs entirely on renewable energy. The company hosts supercomputing and research workloads alongside commercial customers.

News

Blog 1 month ago
Good Growth Needs Digital Infrastructure
Our new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, has stood on a pledge of delivering good growth in every postcode - growth that creates opportunity, attracts investment and delivers lasting benefits for communities right across the UK.It's a vision that has helped
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Blog 2 months ago
The UK's grid challenges - Bringing energy sector experience into the data centre industry.
Kao Data's newly appointed Power and Energy Director, Michael Gordon, has decades of experience in the energy sector and is now applying that expertise to data centres including the ongoing reforms to grid connectivity. Faced with seismic change, the UK i
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Blog 3 months ago
Data Centres Don't Need Better PR. They Need Better Community Partnerships.
As an industry, it seems to me that we have spent too much time asking, "How do we get communities to understand data centres?"I think the better question is, "How do we become a valued part of the communities we operate in?" Because if you're building in
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Blog 3 months ago
The Next Cloud Revolution is Already Underway
I've spent almost a decade working within digital infrastructure and data centres and over that time, I've watched hyperscale cloud providers transform the technology landscape. Household names like Microsoft, AWS, Google and Oracle have redefined digital
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Blog 4 months ago
Data centre heat reuse has a "squeezed middle" problem
Heat reuse from data centres works well at the edge and at scale. It's everyone in the middle who's stuck with the expectations but not the infrastructure.Economists talk about the 'squeezed middle' - households that earn too much to qualify for income su
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Blog 4 months ago
A long time ago in a place called Harlow…
In the Star Wars universe, the Force binds everything together - past, present, and future. George Lucas understood something profound about place and legacy which he knew would be a hit with audiences that related to and cared about it: the ground beneat
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Blog 4 months ago
The Great Data Centre Divide: Hybrid Facilities vs AI Factories
One of the hottest discussion points at the recent Datacloud event in Cannes was that AI is not creating a single new data centre model, but two distinct ones. The first is the hybrid facility, where conventional enterprise infrastructure must sit alongsi
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Blog 7 months ago
Hype Cycle to Power Cycle: The Industrial Era of AI kicked off in San Jose
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending Nvidia's annual GTC2026 (Global Technology Conference) which both expanded growth opportunities and set numerous challenges for data centre operators. It's taken me those two weeks to fully decompress
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Blog 7 months ago
The UK's AI Ambition Gap
The UK says it wants to lead the artificial-intelligence (AI) revolution. But the infrastructure needed to power it is not being built.A visit to Silicon Valley, where I am writing this from, makes the contrast clear. At NVIDIA's annual GTC conference in
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Blog 9 months ago
The Quiet Revolution: Slough's story shows how data centres can benefit the UK's economy and communities for good
Today marks the launch of a new Kao Data white paper, The Quiet Revolution: How Data Centres Remade Slough and Secured the UK's Digital Future, a detailed account of how a town just west of London became one of the most important digital infrastructure cl
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Kao Data over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
3
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
43/100
Developer tools
Microsoft Excel
Practices & domains
Incident Management
SLI/SLO/SLA
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
6
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~16 hours
10/15/2026
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Leadership
20% ▼
Finance
20% ▼
Management
20% ▼
Sales
20% ▼
Solutions
20% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Microsoft Office to stack Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack Sep 2026
Added Outlook to stack Sep 2026
Added SharePoint to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
London
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London United Kingdom
HQ
Kao Data Northolt, Rowdell Road, Northolt, London, UB5 5QR
6 open roles 5 posted in 90 days
hires for Management, Leadership, Finance
Kao Data Northolt, Rowdell Road, Northolt, London, UB5 5QR
seen since Jul 2026 company site, job postings
Slough United Kingdom
Regional office
Slough DC
company site
Wells United Kingdom
Regional office
Media Agency (UK & Europe)
Tunbridge Wells, TN4 8AA, 01892 883460
company site
Stockport United Kingdom
Regional office
Kenwood Point, Kenwood Road, Reddish, Stockport, SK5 6PH
Kenwood Point, Kenwood Road, Reddish, Stockport, SK5 6PH
company site
Harlow United Kingdom
Regional office
Kao Data Campus, London Road, Harlow, CM17 9NA
Kao Data Campus, London Road, Harlow, CM17 9NA
company site

Jobs

≈ $70k – $127k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • London
SharePoint
Microsoft Office
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≈ $123k – $225k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • London
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Financials

Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
8
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 — Details
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Venture - Series Unknown 2023 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 — Details