3 in Finance

1/29: Cloud cost optimization and observability platform, Finout (Tel Aviv, Israel), completed a $40mm Series C raise led by Insight Partners. Pitango Venture Capital, Team8, Maor Investments, and Red Dot Capital Partners also participated in the round. (Link)

1/15: Aligned Data Centers (Plano, TX), a provider of modular data centers and colocation services, secures $12B in new equity and debt in a deal led by Macquarie Asset Management. (Link)

1/2: H.I.G. Capital agrees to acquire Quisitive Technology Solutions (Irving, TX), a premier Microsoft cloud and AI solutions provider, in a take-private deal valued at $115mm. (Link)

3 for Fun

“All good news”—Satya Nadella weighs in on DeepSeek’s big move and what it means for the state of AI (Link)

Stargate details begin to materialize as OpenAI and Softbank each announce $19B commitments to data center development (Link)

Blackstone doubles down on data center vision despite DeepSeek’s disruption (Link)