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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
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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The UK's grid challenges - Bringing energy sector experience into the data centre industry.
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Data Centres Don't Need Better PR. They Need Better Community Partnerships.
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Hype Cycle to Power Cycle: The Industrial Era of AI kicked off in San Jose
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The UK's AI Ambition Gap
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The Quiet Revolution: Slough's story shows how data centres can benefit the UK's economy and communities for good
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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
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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
Wells
United Kingdom
Regional office
Media Agency (UK & Europe)
Stockport
United Kingdom
Regional office
Kenwood Point, Kenwood Road, Reddish, Stockport, SK5 6PH
Kenwood Point, Kenwood Road, Reddish, Stockport, SK5 6PH
Harlow
United Kingdom
Regional office
Kao Data Campus, London Road, Harlow, CM17 9NA
Kao Data Campus, London Road, Harlow, CM17 9NA
Jobs
≈ $70k – $127k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • 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 |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2023 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2022 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2022 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2021 | — | Details |