In late 2024, I took a demo from Dash0 when they were a small team with…

In late 2024, I took a demo from Dash0 when they were a small team with a big vision.

I was running PerfAgents at the time and evaluating observability tools for our Kubernetes infrastructure monitoring. The product was early but the conviction was clear.

This week they announced a $110M Series B at a $1B valuation.

600+ customers.

Displacing Datadog and Dynatrace.

The number that stays with me: at KubeCon, Mirko Novakovic and the Dash0 team set a goal of 500 demos.

They delivered 1,800 in 3 days.

With 30 people.

Four months after launch.

That is not marketing. That is a team on a mission.

As someone who spent years building in the monitoring and observability space, this one hits different.

OpenTelemetry native, transparent pricing, AI agents that actually resolve production issues instead of just flagging them.

Congrats to Mirko Novakovic and the entire Dash0 team. It is clear that this is just the beginning.