Datadog

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Location New York, NY
Founded 2010
Latest Stage IPO
Total Raised $147M
Website https://datadoghq.com
Sector
cloud-monitoring observability developer-tools saas

Investors

Shardul Shah Series A (2012)
Marc Stad Growth / public (2019)
Tom Loverro Series D (2018)
Eric Liaw 2018 (2018)
Will Griffith Series D (2015)
Matt Jacobson 2015 (2015)
Divesh Makan Series D (2015)
Murat Bicer Seed, Series A co-lead (2011)
Sunil Dhaliwal Seed (2012)
Lenny Pruss Early stage (2011)
IVP series-d (2016)
Index Ventures Series A (2012)
dragoneer Growth / public (2019)
ICONIQ Growth Series D (2015)
CRV Seed, Series A co-lead (2011)
amplify-partners Seed (2012)

Founders

Olivier Pomel CEO & Co-Founder
Alexis Le-Quoc CTO & Co-Founder

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, raising $648 million at an $8.7 billion valuation 1.

Funding History

Date Round Amount Lead Co-investors
Jul 2010 Seed ~$1M — NYC Seed, Contour Venture Partners, IA Ventures, Jerry Neumann, Alex Payne 1
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
Sep 2019 IPO $648M — Nasdaq: DDOG 1

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

No independently sourced founder testimonials found.

Sources

  1. “Datadog,” Wikipedia, accessed March 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datadog↩↩↩↩↩

  2. “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/↩↩

  3. “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/↩↩

  4. “Datadog Raises $31M in Series C Funding,” Datadog press release, January 29, 2015. https://www.datadoghq.com/about/latest-news/press-releases/series-c/↩↩

  5. “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/↩