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    Recent transactions in the domain of cloud observability

    Country Funding round Date
    Grafana Labs
    Provider of an open and composable observability stack.
    United States Series D
    USD 270,000,000 (USD 270,000,000) at USD 6,000,000,000 (USD 6,000,000,000) valuation.
    21 Aug 2024
    OpsCruise
    Kubernetes observability platform.
    Acquisition
    15 Jun 2023
    VMware Inc
    Provider of virtualisation solutions
    United States Acquisition
    USD 69,000,000,000 (USD 69,000,000,000) at USD 69,000,000,000 (USD 69,000,000,000) valuation.
    26 May 2022
    Grafana Labs
    Provider of an open and composable observability stack.
    United States Series D
    USD 240,000,000 (USD 240,000,000)
    6 Apr 2022
    Grafana Labs
    Provider of an open and composable observability stack.
    United States Series C
    USD 220,000,000 (USD 220,000,000) at USD 3,000,000,000 (USD 3,000,000,000) valuation.
    Aug 2021
    Datadog Inc
    Observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services.
    United States Convertible Note
    USD 747,500,000 (USD 747,500,000)
    6 Jun 2020
    Datadog Inc
    Observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services.
    United States IPO
    USD 648,000,000 (USD 648,000,000)
    19 Sep 2019
    Datadog Inc
    Observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services.
    United States Venture
    13 Dec 2018
    Moogsoft (herd) Inc
    AI-driven observability provider of intelligent monitoring solutions for smart DevOps.
    United States Series D
    USD 40,000,000 (USD 40,000,000)
    13 Mar 2018
    Blue Medora Inc
    United States Series B-1
    USD 8,000,000 (USD 8,000,000)
    31 Oct 2017
    AppDynamics Inc
    Application performance management company for modern application architectures in the cloud and the data center.
    United States Acquisition
    USD 3,700,000,000 (USD 3,700,000,000) at USD 3,700,000,000 (USD 3,700,000,000) valuation.
    24 Jan 2017
    Datadog Inc
    Observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services.
    United States Series D
    USD 94,500,000 (USD 94,500,000)
    12 Jan 2016
    Datadog Inc
    Observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services.
    United States Series C
    USD 31,000,000 (USD 31,000,000)
    28 Jan 2015
    Datadog Inc
    Observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services.
    United States Series B
    USD 15,000,000 (USD 15,000,000)
    4 Feb 2014
    Datadog Inc
    Observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services.
    United States Series A
    USD 6,200,000 (USD 6,200,000)
    21 Nov 2012
    Sumo Logic Inc
    Cloud-based log management and analytics.
    United States Series C
    1 Nov 2012
    AppDynamics Inc
    Application performance management company for modern application architectures in the cloud and the data center.
    United States Series C
    17 Jan 2012
    Sumo Logic Inc
    Cloud-based log management and analytics.
    United States Series B
    1 Jan 2012
    New Relic Inc
    United States N/A
    16 Nov 2011
    New Relic Inc
    United States N/A
    16 Nov 2011
    Datadog Inc
    Observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services.
    United States Seed
    USD 1,200,000 (USD 1,200,000) at USD 3,900,000 (USD 3,900,000) valuation.
    29 Apr 2011
    New Relic Inc
    United States Series C
    14 Oct 2010
    Datadog Inc
    Observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services.
    United States Seed
    27 Jul 2010
    AppDynamics Inc
    Application performance management company for modern application architectures in the cloud and the data center.
    United States Series B
    3 May 2010
    New Relic Inc
    United States Series B
    12 Nov 2008
    VMware Inc
    Provider of virtualisation solutions
    United States N/A
    27 Jul 2007
    VMware Inc
    Provider of virtualisation solutions
    United States N/A
    1 Jul 2007

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    Provider of an open and composable observability stack.





    AI-driven observability provider of intelligent monitoring solutions for smart DevOps.

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    Unified log, metric, and trace analytics for any stack.





    Machine learning driven root cause analysis and proactive incident detection.





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    Top investors in the domain of cloud observability

    Profile Country Investments
    Contour Venture Partners United States 5
    Amplify Partners VC firm investing in technical founders building the next generation of applications, tools, and platforms for developers, data teams, ML engineers. United States 5
    NYC Seed United States 4
    Lightspeed Management Co LLC Multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the enterprise and consumer sectors. United States 3
    RTP Global Russia 3
    IA Venture Partners LLC United States 3
    Greylock Partners Venture capital firm. United States 3
    Index Ventures Management SA Venture capital firm Switzerland 3
    Uncorrelated Ventures Venture capital firm focused on infrastructure software. United States 3
    OpenView Venture Partners Venture capital firm investing globally in business software companies. United States 3
    Sequoia Capital Operations LLC Venture capital firm. United States 2
    Tenaya Capital Inc VC firm providing early-growth stage capital to transformational venture-backed technology businesses. United States 2
    Four Rivers Group United States 2
    GIC Private Ltd Singapore sovereign wealth fund. Singapore 2
    RRE Ventures LLC American venture capital firm based in New York City. United States 2
    Lead Edge Capital Management LLC Investor in growth stage software, internet, and consumer businesses. United States 2
    JP Morgan & Co United States 2
    Sutter Hill Ventures LP Private equity firm based in Palo Alto, Clifornia. United States 2
    Benchmark Capital Early stage venture capital firm focused on social, mobile, local and cloud companies. United States 1
    Wing Ventures Venture capital firm focused on business technology startups. United States 1
    Goldman Sachs Growth Equity 1
    August Capital Management Venture capital firm focused on information technology. United States 1
    First Analysis Venture Capital United States 1
    JK&B Capital Venture capital firm focused in the software, IT and communications markets. United States 1
    Pario Ventures United Kingdom 1
    HCL Technologies Ltd 1
    K5 Global 1
    Wakestream Ventures United States 1
    MeriTech Capital Partners Venture firm focused on late-stage investments in consumer Internet and media, software and services, enterprise infrastructure, medical devices. United States 1
    Bridgescale Partners United States 1
    Redpoint Ventures Venture capital capital firm that invests in startups across the seed, early and growth phases. United States 1
    CapitalG Alphabet's investment arm. United States 1
    Bain Capital Venture Partners LLC Multi-stage, domain-focused venture fund with offices in the Bay Area, NYC, and Boston, the venture capital division within Bain Capital. United States 1
    Cisco Systems Inc Networking hardware, software, and services United States 1
    Accel Partners & Co Inc Early and growth stage venture capital firm. United States 1
    Institutional Venture Partners US-based venture capital investment firm focusing on later-stage companies and growth equity investments. United States 1
    Cedar Fund United States 1
    Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte Ltd Singapore 1
    Azure Capital Partners United States 1
    Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC Venture capital firm. United States 1
    Trinity Ventures Venture capital firm. United States 1
    Technology Crossover Ventures LLC American investment firm based in Menlo Park, California. United States 1
    Cisco Investments The corporate venture capital arm of Cisco Systems. United States 1
    Neu Venture Capital Venture capital investment vehicle of Jerry Neumann based out of New York City. United States 1
    Lewis and Clark Capital LLC 1
    Duff Ackerman & Goodrich Ventures A mid-stage venture capital partnership with a service-oriented mindset. United States 1
    Golden Gate Capital United States 1
    ICONiQ Capital LLC Global multi-family office. 1
    Northgate Capital United States 1
    Bob Pasker United States 1

    Top acquirers in the domain of cloud observability

    Profile Country Acquisitions
    Broadcom Corp Broadcom Corporation, is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. United States 1
    Virtana Virtual infrastructure performance optimization software company. Cayman Islands 1
    Cisco Systems Inc Networking hardware, software, and services United States 1

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