Datadog

Cloud observability and monitoring platform (NASDAQ: DDOG), founded 2010 in NYC by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc.

Why it’s in this wiki

STLabs lineage. Amit Agarwal (STLabs) was Datadog President/CPO; both Datadog co-founders personally invested in STLabs’ seed. The “land-and-expand on a usage-based platform” playbook is a recurring analog.
Appears in talent-flows-2026 as a source of operator/founder talent into the AI-ITSM segment.

Stub — expand with Datadog AI/observability strategy if it becomes directly competitive. ^[needs-research]