Co-founder profile

Alexis Le-Quoc at Datadog

The CTO who co-founded Datadog in New York

Alexis Le-Quoc co-founded Datadog in 2010 with Olivier Pomel. He is the chief technology officer. Both studied computer science at Ecole Centrale Paris and both later worked at Wireless Generation.

Le-Quoc started at IBM Research, then became director of operations at Wireless Generation. Datadog was founded in New York and raised a seed round in 2010.

Index Ventures and RTP Ventures co-led a $6.2M Series A in 2012. OpenView led a $15M Series B in 2014, Index a $31M Series C in 2015 and ICONIQ a $94.5M Series D in early 2016.

In 2018 the agent was rewritten in Go. Cisco offered over $7B in 2019, and Datadog rejected it and listed on Nasdaq on 19 September 2019. It joined the S&P 500 in July 2025.

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What does Alexis Le-Quoc do at Datadog?

Alexis Le-Quoc is co-founder and chief technology officer of Datadog, the cloud monitoring company founded in New York in 2010.

Where did Alexis Le-Quoc study?

He earned a master's degree in computer science at Ecole Centrale Paris.

How did Alexis Le-Quoc start Datadog?

He worked at IBM Research and then at Wireless Generation as director of operations. There he worked with Olivier Pomel, and the two founded Datadog in 2010.