Datadoghq
Verified“US-incorporated, NASDAQ-listed, AWS-hosted; French-founder-controlled.”
- Listing
- NASDAQ: DDOG
- Revenue (FY2024)
- $2.68B
- Employees
- ~6,500
- Voting control
- Founders ~37%
15 = midpoint of Control 11 & Data 19
Sovereignty Quadrant
Control ↑ who owns & governs the company · Data → where your data lives. Every dot is a company — click to open it.
Every number below traces to 12 sourced facts across 5 independent sources, last verified 2026-06-12. 3 open questions hold confidence at 88% — they lower confidence, never the score.
Control ↑
Who legally and economically controls the company
Legal & Jurisdiction
9
Incorporated in Delaware with principal executive offices in New York; the operating registrant is a US entity. EU law reaches it only as a foreign data processor via DPF/SCCs, not as a home jurisdiction.
Why 9? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
Datadog, Inc. is incorporated in Delaware with principal executive offices at 620 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10018.
Datadog FY2024 Form 10-K (SEC EDGAR) · as of 2024-12-31
Class A common stock trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol DDOG.
Datadog FY2024 Form 10-K (SEC EDGAR) · as of 2024-12-31
Datadog relies on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework certification plus Standard Contractual Clauses to legitimize transfers of EU customer personal data to the US.
Datadog Privacy / GDPR page · as of 2026-06-12
Control & Ownership
13
French co-founders hold supervoting control (~37% combined voting power) via ten-vote Class B shares, a real EU-individual thread, but the company is NASDAQ-listed with economic ownership dominated by US institutions (Vanguard, BlackRock).
Why 13? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
Co-founder/CEO Olivier Pomel holds 19.4% and co-founder Alexis Lê-Quôc 17.6% of total voting power; all officers and directors as a group hold 40.5% via 81% of Class B supervoting shares.
Datadog 2025 Proxy Statement (DEF 14A), SEC EDGAR · as of 2025-04-18
Class B common stock carries ten votes per share vs one vote for Class A; as of Dec 31 2024 Class B represented ~44% of total voting power.
Datadog FY2024 Form 10-K (SEC EDGAR) · as of 2024-12-31
Largest 5% economic holders are US institutions: The Vanguard Group (8.5% of Class A) and BlackRock, Inc. (6.1% of Class A).
Datadog 2025 Proxy Statement (DEF 14A), SEC EDGAR · as of 2025-04-18
Data →
Where your data lives and who can reach it
Data & Infrastructure
15
Datadog outsources substantially all platform infrastructure to third-party hosting (AWS) and offers an EU region in Germany on AWS for data residency, but it remains a US-controlled platform on a US hyperscaler under CLOUD Act reach.
Why 15? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
Datadog states it outsources substantially all of the infrastructure relating to its cloud solution to third-party hosting services.
Datadog FY2024 Form 10-K (SEC EDGAR) · as of 2024-12-31
Datadog offers an EU region hosted in Germany allowing customers to keep monitoring, analytics and log data in Europe for GDPR data residency.
Datadog press release: EU Region in Germany · as of 2018-10-22
Datadog uses third-party cloud infrastructure providers as subprocessors that store or process customer and personal data on its behalf.
Datadog FY2024 Form 10-K (SEC EDGAR) · as of 2024-12-31
Operations & People
26
HQ, leadership and USD reporting are US-centered, but ~41% of the workforce is outside the US and ~35% of those are in France, giving a real but secondary EU operational footprint.
Why 26? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
As of Dec 31 2024 Datadog had approximately 6,500 employees across 33 countries, with approximately 41% located outside the United States, 35% of whom were in France.
Datadog FY2024 Form 10-K (SEC EDGAR) · as of 2024-12-31
Datadog's headquarters and principal executive offices are in New York City and it reports financials in US dollars.
Datadog FY2024 Form 10-K (SEC EDGAR) · as of 2024-12-31
Datadog reported full-year 2024 revenue of $2,684.3 million, up 26% year over year.
Datadog Q4 & FY2024 financial results · as of 2024-12-31
Aligned to the EU Commission’s official Cloud Sovereignty Framework (SEAL, Jun 2026) →
What we don’t know
3 open questions — they lower confidence, never the score
- ?
Which specific hyperscaler(s) host each Datadog region, and what share is AWS vs GCP vs Azure?
Public evidence and press releases point to AWS (EU region in Germany, Tokyo on AWS), but the 10-K only says 'third-party hosting services' generically, so exact provider split per region is not formally confirmed.
- ?
Does the EU (Germany) region keep data exclusively in-EU at rest with no US-routed processing or support access?
Determines whether 'data residency' meaningfully reduces CLOUD Act exposure; the EU region offers residency but Datadog remains a US-controlled processor.
- ?
Current exact combined founder/insider voting power as of mid-2026.
Class B converts to Class A on sale, so supervoting erodes over time; the 40.5% group figure is from the April 2025 proxy and may have drifted.
EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework lens
The EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework formally targets cloud service providers; this is an analogous mapping applied to a SaaS observability vendor, not a certification.
Strategic
US-incorporated, NASDAQ-listed company under US strategic and legal control; EU has no structural leverage over corporate direction.
Legal & jurisdictional
Delaware entity, NY HQ, subject to US law and the CLOUD Act; EU data transfers rest on DPF + SCCs rather than EU jurisdiction.
Data & AI
Offers an EU region in Germany for data residency and GDPR-aligned ingestion controls, but the controller is a US company on US-hyperscaler infra.
Operational
Significant EU operational footprint (35% of non-US staff in France), but leadership, HQ and USD reporting are US-centered.
Supply chain
Substantially all infrastructure is outsourced to third-party hosting (AWS-based) and other US subprocessors.
Technological
Proprietary US-owned SaaS platform built on US public-cloud infrastructure; no EU-sovereign technology stack.
Security & compliance
Holds EU-U.S. DPF certification, offers SCCs/DPA and a published data transfer impact assessment, plus GDPR/HIPAA/CCPA-aligned features.
Environmental sustainability
No EU-specific environmental/sovereignty disclosure reviewed for this profile.
EU alternatives
Founded in Austria but now US-incorporated (Delaware) and NYSE-listed; not an EU-sovereign option despite European roots.
Swedish-founded open-source observability; Grafana OSS can be self-hosted in the EU, but Grafana Labs is US-incorporated and Grafana Cloud runs on US hyperscalers.
Self-hosting the CNCF observability stack on EU-sovereign cloud (e.g. OVHcloud, Scaleway) avoids US-vendor control, but requires in-house operation rather than a managed EU vendor.
How the method works
Methodology v2 (provisional): the score is the midpoint of two axes — Control (who owns and governs the company) and Data (where your data lives and who can reach it). Each axis is scored only on verified evidence; unknowns reduce confidence, never the score. Every input below is sourced; the weights and judgments are open to challenge.
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- 2026-06-12 — Initial golden profile, authored from primary sources (human + AI review).
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Verified 2026-06-12 · Human + AI joint review (sources independently checked) · Methodology