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Namespace Raises $42M to Build AI Coding Infrastructure
Namespace raised a $42 million Series B led by Scale Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to $65 million. The Zurich-based company says it will use the money to expand data centers and develop its coding, build and test platform for
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Namespace said on October 5 that it had closed a $42 million Series B led by Scale Venture Partners, betting that AI-generated code will increase demand for the computing systems that build and test software. The round brings the Zurich-based company’s total funding to $65 million. Namespace says it will use the proceeds to develop its products and expand its data centers.
The company is selling infrastructure for the work that follows code generation: setting up isolated development environments, running builds and checking whether code works. Its pitch is that those steps need to keep pace as developers and coding agents make changes more frequently and in parallel.
Namespace’s $42M round follows its $23M financing
NEA, 20VC, Essence, Burst Capital and Susa Ventures joined the Series B, along with angel investors including Olivier Pomel, Datadog’s CEO, according to Namespace. The financing came seven months after the company’s previous round, which it says was led by NEA. The latest raise takes total funding to $65 million.
Namespace reports that revenue grew eightfold over the 12 months before the announcement and that more than 1,000 organizations use its platform. The company named Ramp, SpaceXAI, ElevenLabs, Framer, Vanta and Warp among its customers. Those growth and customer figures come from Namespace, which did not disclose a valuation or detailed financial terms for the Series B.
Builds and tests are the infrastructure bet
Namespace offers development environments for coding agents, GitHub Actions runners, persistent caching and remote build execution for Bazel. Its platform supports Mac, Windows and Linux, covering work that can require different operating systems, including development and testing for Apple devices.
The company says it operates its own infrastructure, choosing processors, storage and networking for software development workloads. Scale Venture Partners’ investment announcement describes the same thesis: coding agents can create more concurrent work, need separate workspaces and depend on quick build-and-test results before they can take another step.
That demand can make slow execution a limit on how quickly developers or agents iterate. Namespace’s approach is to control more of the systems underneath those workloads, including data placement and access to reusable build artifacts, rather than relying only on general-purpose cloud machines.
Scale sees a different workload for cloud infrastructure
“The use of agents in software development challenges the tradeoff assumptions made by prior generations of tooling. Namespace is the platform that can meet the demand for speed and scalability, while delivering the same reliability and security that engineers have grown accustomed to,” wrote Javier Redondo, partner at Scale Venture Partners, in Namespace’s announcement.
The round funds an expansion of Namespace’s data centers, including its fleet of Mac hardware, as well as product development. That focus addresses a specific gap in its pitch: coding agents may run across platforms, but software still has to build and pass tests in environments suited to its target operating system.
Namespace is pursuing both the developer workspace and the compute behind continuous integration, builds and tests. The company’s announced expansion will add data-center capacity to that platform; the Series B announcement does not specify how many facilities or machines it plans to add.