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Datadog Ventures

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Datadog Ventures is a Seed venture capital firm based in New York, NY investing in Developer Tools, Other, Enterprise. The firm typically writes $250K–$2.0M checks and has 22 portfolio companies in our records.

Stage

Seed

Check Size

$250K – $2.0M

Portfolio

22+ companies

Team

10 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Strategic seed investor for devops/observability/security-adjacent enterprise software.

How Datadog Ventures invests

Datadog Ventures is a vc firm based in New York, NY. The firm invests at the Seed stage, with a focus on Developer Tools, Other, Enterprise, AI / ML, Security.

Datadog Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$2.0M per investment.

Datadog Ventures has backed 22 companies in our records, including Aporia, FireTail, Rookout.

Meet the Team

CE

Caitlin Elfring

Director of Engineering

BH

Bryan Hughes

Director of Recruiting

BP

Bradley Peck

Director of Go-To-Market Strategy

SH

Stephen Hynes

Senior Director of Technical Support

SR

Shaun Riley

Director of Sales

ME

Michael Eubanks

Tax Director

KB

Kimberly Buhay

Senior Director of Marketing

MW

Michael Whetten

Senior Vice President of Product

JB

Jarrod Buckley

Vice President of Partnerships

KG

Kevin Goltermann

Partner Solutions Engineer

Industry Focus

Invests In

Developer Tools
Other
Enterprise
AI / ML
Security
SaaS
Food / AgTech
Consumer

Portfolio Companies (22)

Other

AP

Aporia

ML Observability
FI

FireTail

API Security
RO

Rookout

Developer Observability
SE

Seva

SaaS·Seed

Provider of customer support automation tools

BU

Builder.io

Developer Tools·Series A

Visual development platform for headless CMS and e-commerce

DO

Doppler

Infrastructure & Cloud·Series A

Secrets management platform for developers

NI

NinjaOne

IT Management·Series C

Remote monitoring and management for IT operations

PA

Patronus AI

AI·Series A

AI evaluation and monitoring platform

CU

Cube AI

AI·Pre-Seed

AI-powered data analytics tool

KE

Kestra

Developer Tools·Seed

Workflow orchestration platform

How to pitch Datadog Ventures
  • Raising at Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Developer Tools, Other, Enterprise — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $250K – $2.0M check.
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Caitlin Elfring, Director of Engineering.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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