OpenObserve
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Founders
About
OpenObserve is an AI-native observability platform offering open-source tools for logs, metrics, and traces, designed to compete with established observability vendors like Datadog and Splunk on cost and openness 12. The company was founded in 2022 by Prabhat Sharma and is headquartered in San Francisco 23. The open-source platform is used by more than 6,000 organizations — including many Fortune 100 companies — and the project has accumulated more than 18,000 stars on GitHub 12.
Alongside its Series A, OpenObserve announced “Observability 3.0,” a set of AI-native capabilities including an autonomous AI SRE, anomaly detection, and LLM observability 12.
Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead | Co-investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | Series A | $10M | Nexus Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital | 12 |
Both Nexus Venture Partners and Dell Technologies Capital previously backed OpenObserve’s seed round and led the Series A “preemptively” before a formal go-to-market process 3.
What Investors Say
No independently sourced investor quotes about this round were found in primary press coverage at the time of profile creation.
What Founders Say
In the company’s Series A announcement blog, founder and CEO Prabhat Sharma wrote: “Both firms participated in our seed round, and they have chosen to lead this round preemptively, before we even went to market” 3.
Sources
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BusinessWire, “OpenObserve Raises $10 Million Series A to Accelerate AI-native Observability,” April 29, 2026. Accessed April 2026. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260429840147/en/OpenObserve-Raises-$10-Million-Series-A-to-Accelerate-AI-native-Observability↩↩↩↩
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Pulse 2.0, “OpenObserve Raises $10 Million Series A To Accelerate AI-Native Observability Platform,” April 29, 2026. Accessed April 2026. https://pulse2.com/openobserve-raises-10-million-series-a-to-accelerate-ai-native-observability-platform/↩↩↩↩↩
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OpenObserve blog, “OpenObserve: $10M Series A and the Launch of Observability 3.0,” by Prabhat Sharma. Accessed April 2026. https://openobserve.ai/blog/series-a-announcement/↩↩↩