Datadog
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About
Datadog is a cloud monitoring and observability platform founded in 2010 by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Le-Quoc in New York City 1. The founders met as undergraduates at Ecole Centrale Paris and later worked together for nine years at Wireless Generation 1. Datadog went public on the Nasdaq on September 19, 2019 under the ticker DDOG, pricing 24 million shares at $27 on September 18, 2019 to raise $648 million at an approximately $7.8 billion offering valuation (roughly $8.7 billion fully diluted) 7 8.
Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead | Co-investors |
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| 2010-07-27 | Seed | $25K | NYC SeedStart | Contour Venture Partners, IA Ventures, RRE Ventures, Polaris Partners 6 |
| Nov 2012 | Series A | $6.2M | Index Ventures, RTP Ventures | IA Ventures, Amplify Partners, Contour Ventures, NYCSeed 2 |
| Feb 2014 | Series B | $15M | OpenView Venture Partners | Index Ventures, RTP Ventures, Amplify Partners, IA Ventures, Contour Ventures 3 |
| Jan 2015 | Series C | $31M | Index Ventures | RTP Ventures, OpenView Venture Partners, Amplify Partners 4 |
| Jan 2016 | Series D | $94.5M | ICONIQ Capital | Index Ventures, OpenView Ventures, Amplify Partners, Contour Ventures 5 |
| 2019-09-19 | IPO | $648M | Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Credit Suisse | Barclays, Jefferies, RBC Capital Markets 7 8 |
What Investors Say
Shardul Shah of Index Ventures said: “The combination of Datadog’s beautifully crafted product, stellar team, and hyper growth, is why we’re excited to continue to support them” 4.
Dev Ittycheria of OpenView said: “Datadog has created a monitoring platform that has been explicitly designed to monitor highly elastic compute environments on public or private clouds” 3.
Murat Bicer of RTP Ventures said: “We see Datadog setting the standard for infrastructure monitoring in the cloud age: they aggregate tens of billions of records a day from dozens of sources for their largest customers, yet present it in a simple interactive package” 2.
What Founders Say
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Sources
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“Datadog Announces $6.2M Investment from Index Ventures and RTP Ventures,” Datadog press release, November 20, 2012. https://www.datadoghq.com/about/latest-news/press-releases/datadog-announces-6-2m-investment-from-index-ventures-and-rtp-ventures/↩↩
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“Datadog Raises $15 Million to Deliver Scalable Monitoring,” Datadog press release, February 4, 2014. https://www.datadoghq.com/about/latest-news/press-releases/datadog-raises-15-million-to-deliver-scalable-monitoring/↩↩
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“Datadog Raises $31M in Series C Funding,” Datadog press release, January 29, 2015. https://www.datadoghq.com/about/latest-news/press-releases/series-c/↩↩
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“Datadog Raises $94.5M in Series D Funding,” Datadog press release, January 12, 2016. https://www.datadoghq.com/about/latest-news/press-releases/series-d/↩
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“NYC Seed’s first Seedstart program Datadog raises $94.5 million in Series D Funding,” Partnership for New York City, accessed April 2026. https://pfnyc.org/news/nyc-seeds-first-seedstart-program-datadog-raises-94-5-million-in-series-d-funding/↩
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“Datadog - $745.2 Million IPO,” Cooley LLP news, October 1, 2019, accessed April 2026. https://www.cooley.com/news/coverage/2019/2019-10-01-datadog-745-million-ipo↩↩
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“Datadog IPO: 14 Things to Know About DDOG Stock’s Debut,” InvestorPlace, September 19, 2019, accessed April 2026. https://investorplace.com/2019/09/datadog-ipo-details/↩↩