Olivier Pomel
About Olivier Pomel
Olivier Pomel is co-founder and CEO of Datadog. He started the company in New York in 2010 with Alexis Le-Quoc. Datadog sells observability and security software for cloud applications, and it went public in 2019. Crunchbase lists his location as New York, New York.
Before Datadog he was vice president of technology at Wireless Generation, an education data company later acquired by News Corp. His X bio describes him as a former education data wrangler. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Ecole Centrale Paris, now CentraleSupélec.
Crunchbase shows 58 investments for Pomel, with no lead investments, no exits and no companies founded recorded on the profile. Other databases report different totals. PitchBook lists 101 investments and Tracxn lists 76 portfolio companies, so treat the counts as approximate.
He typically joins rounds led by others. Tracxn records him in Niteshift's $7M seed alongside Greylock Partners and Reid Hoffman (June 2026). It also records him in Arrakis Technologies' $30M Series A (July 2026). He was also named among the angels in Ankar's £3M seed round led by Index Ventures (May 2025).
Crunchbase counts 42 AI investments by Pomel since 2023. The AI portfolio on Crunchbase includes Qevlar AI, Vocca, Cube AI, Pruna AI, Mem0, Adaptive ML, Lovable, Gradium, Archestra.AI, White Circle, Dust and Doubleword.
The Lounge deals desk lists these recent AI rounds that include him: Namespace Series B ($42M), RadixArk Seed ($100M), Tolmo Seed ($22M), Archestra.AI Seed ($10M) and BottleCap AI Seed ($7.5M).
Pruna AI's team has said that Pomel, as one of its angels, brings experience with the US mid-market. The company was expanding there after its seed round in November 2024.
The recorded deals are mostly seed rounds, with some Series A and later rounds. Tracxn says he invests mainly in enterprise applications and enterprise infrastructure, with most deals in the United States and France. His AI deals include developer tools, AI infrastructure, agents and voice. Pomel has not publicly stated a check size or a formal investment thesis, so none is given here.
- Mem0: AI memory layer for applications and agents, listed on Crunchbase.
- Lovable: AI app-building platform, listed on Crunchbase.
- Pruna AI: AI model efficiency startup, seed round in November 2024.
- Archestra.AI: AI infrastructure startup, $10M seed in June 2026.
- Dust: AI assistant platform for teams, listed on Crunchbase.
- Gradium: AI startup, seed round in December 2025 per PitchBook.
- RadixArk: $100M seed on the Lounge deals desk.
- Hugging Face: named by Tracxn as a notable investment.
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- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datadog
- x.com/oliveur
AI portfolio
Investing activity
Olivier Pomel has made 58 investments according to Crunchbase. 42 of those investments since 2023 were in AI companies, including Qevlar AI, Vocca, Cube AI, Pruna AI and Mem0.
Olivier Pomel appears in 9 AI deals tracked by the AI Lounge deals desk, rounds totalling $284M. The rounds are mostly Seed and Series B, with a median round size of $22M and the largest at $100M. The most recent are Daytona (Series B, $60M, Oct 2026), Namespace (Series B, $42M, Oct 2026) and Entire (Seed, $60M, Jul 2026).
Olivier Pomel most often invests alongside 20VC, Kieran Flanagan, Accel and Tenacity Capital, and the companies they back on AI Lounge are mostly in AI, AI agent cloud infrastructure and AI developer infrastructure.
Deals
Frequently asked questions about Olivier Pomel
Who is Olivier Pomel?
He is the co-founder and CEO of Datadog, the cloud observability and security company founded in New York in 2010. He also invests personally as an angel in startups.
Does Olivier Pomel invest in AI startups?
Yes. Crunchbase counts 42 AI investments since 2023, including Mem0, Lovable, Pruna AI, Dust and Archestra.AI.
What stage does Olivier Pomel invest in?
Public records show mostly seed rounds, with some Series A and later rounds. He generally joins rounds led by other investors.
What check size does Olivier Pomel write?
His check size is not public. Databases list round sizes but not his own amounts.
How can founders reach Olivier Pomel?
He has a public LinkedIn profile and an X account (@oliveur). He has no personal website listed, and he does not publish a pitch process.
Is Olivier Pomel an angel investor?
Yes. Olivier Pomel invests personally as an angel. Crunchbase counts 58 investments.
What AI companies has Olivier Pomel invested in?
Olivier Pomel's AI investments include Qevlar AI, Vocca, Cube AI, Pruna AI, Mem0, Adaptive ML, Lovable and Gradium. The 9 rounds on AI Lounge are listed on this page with amounts, dates and co-investors.
Where is Olivier Pomel based?
Olivier Pomel is based in New York, United States.
What stage does Olivier Pomel invest at?
In the rounds tracked on AI Lounge, Olivier Pomel has invested at Seed and Series B, with a median round of $22M.
Who does Olivier Pomel co-invest with?
Olivier Pomel's most frequent co-investors on AI Lounge are 20VC (3 deals), Kieran Flanagan (3 deals), Accel (2 deals), Tenacity Capital (2 deals) and Visible Ventures (2 deals).