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November 5, 2025

Datadog alumni raise $10m seed led by General Catalyst for AI observability startup

Gabriel-James Safar and Sébastien Deprez scaled key products at Datadog before founding their own observability challenger

Tsuga, a Paris-based startup founded by two Datadog alumni, has raised a $10m seed round to build systems that can monitor, control and debug software deployed by enterprise customers, a field known as observability.

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Daphné Leprince-Ringuet

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is a senior reporter for Sifted, based in Paris. She covers French tech and writes Sifted's AI and Deeptech newsletter . You can find her on X and LinkedIn

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