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Datadog is an observability and security platform founded in 2010 in New York City by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Le-Quoc [1]. The company operates a SaaS platform for cloud-scale applications, with core products including Infrastructure Monitoring, Network Performance Monitoring, and Application Performance Monitoring [2]. Headquartered in New York, Datadog operates in 33 countries with approximately 8,100 employees [3]. The company went public on September 19, 2019, raising $648 million at an $8.7 billion valuation and trades on Nasdaq under the ticker DDOG [5]. It was added to the S&P 500 in July 2025 [5]. Datadog reported $3.43 billion in revenue for 2025 [4]. The company has completed over 20 acquisitions since its founding, including Mortar Data, Logmatic, Sqreen, Codiga, Metaplane, Eppo, and Propolis, expanding into data observability, experimentation infrastructure, and QA testing [7].

Leadership & org chart

Alumni

Recent developments

  • Went public on 19 September 2019, raising $648 million at an $8.7 billion valuation; trades on Nasdaq as DDOG and was added to the S&P 500 in July 2025.[5]
  • Before its IPO, Datadog turned down an acquisition offer from Cisco of more than $7 billion.[6]
  • Has made 20+ acquisitions, including Mortar Data (2015), Logmatic (2017), Sqreen (2021), Codiga (2023), Metaplane and Eppo (both 2025) and Propolis (2026), extending into data observability, experimentation infrastructure and QA testing.[7]

Alumni 2 went on to found or lead

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Traction

  • Founded in 2010 in New York City by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Le-Quoc, still headquartered there, operating in 33 countries with roughly 8,100 employees.[3]

Product

  • Datadog runs a SaaS observability and analytics platform for cloud-scale applications, monitoring servers, databases, tools and services. Core products include Infrastructure Monitoring, Network Performance Monitoring and Application Performance Monitoring.[2]

NYC headquarters

  • SEC filings list the business address of Datadog, Inc. as 620 EIGHTH AVENUE, 45TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY, 10018.[8]

financials

  • Reported revenue of $3.43 billion for the year ending 2025-12-31 and total assets of $6.64 billion in its most recent annual report to the SEC.[11]

Deals & lineage

Acquired

  • Eppo

    Feature flagging and experimentation platform acquired by New York-headquartered Datadog in May 2025

  • Metaplane

    End-to-end data observability platform acquired by New York-headquartered Datadog in April 2025

  • Quickwit

    Open-source cloud-native log search engine acquired by New York-headquartered Datadog in January 2025

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