Dig Ventures

🚀 Dash0 Raises $9.5M Seed Round to Simplify Observability for Developers 🚀 We’re thrilled to announce that Dash0, the first OpenTelemetry-native #observability platform, has raised $9.5M in seed financing to bring simple, standardized observability to modern, cloud-based businesses! This round was led by Accel (Harry Nelis), with participation from Dig Ventures (Ross Mason) and angels including Guy Podjarny (co-founder, Snyk), Guillermo Rauch (CEO, Vercel), André Christ (CEO, SAP LeanIX), Geeta Schmidt (CEO, Humio), Dion Almaer (Product, Augment Code) and Florian Leibert (GP, 468 Capital). With observability more important than ever in the $50B observability and monitoring tools market, Dash0 was built from the ground up to unlock OpenTelemetry’s potential. Here’s what sets us apart: • OpenTelemetry-Native: No proprietary data—fully standardized, vendor-agnostic insights using OTel Resources as context • Transparent Pricing: Pay only based on the data sent and fully understand the origin, giving developers complete control over observability costs. • Intuitive and Flexible UI: Customizable dashboards, views, checks and powerful filtering and query building with full support for #PromQL, PersesDev, and integrations with Slack and more. Dash0 has been designed to make observability easy, affordable, and actionable for developers worldwide. After a successful beta with users like catchHR, Chargetrip, and Porsche Digital, Dash0 is now fully launched and available to all. A huge thank you to our investors and everyone who has supported us on this journey - especially our early angels: Jason Heine, Thilo Konzok,Melissa Lester, Rytis Vitkauskas, Ameet Patel, Claudius Weinberger, Pete Abrams, Chris Schagen, Raphael Weiner, Berthold von Freyberg, Jörg Binnenbrücker Ready to experience #observability simplified? Sign up today at dash0.com. #Dash0 #ObservabilitySimplified #OpenTelemetry #ProductLaunch #SeedFunding Find our Press Release right here: https://lnkd.in/dyV35Wqp

The Founder's Odyssey: Leaving, Learning, and Launching Again was the title of this panel at the Italian Tech Week. Two years ago, I was announcing my departure from exec roles at Scalapay, a company I still have in my heart and support to the best of my ability. A period of uncertainty followed. I had to take some time off to reflect and learn from my journey. It hasn’t been easy. Finally, a few days ago we unveiled what we’ve been developing at Desia with Alessandro, Mehmet and a stellar team. We've benefited from the backing of Dig Ventures led by Ross who’s been my sparring partner on stage and in everyday life. A special thanks to Scott who’s been making it possible behind the scenes. This is going to be my last post for a while. Exciting times ahead for AI. Heads down building.

We're thrilled to announce that Dig Ventures led the $3.3 million pre-seed funding round for Desia, a system of intelligence that leverages advanced AI for automation, analytics, and productivity in financial services. About Desia: Founded by Raffaele Terrone, co-founder of Italy's first unicorn, Scalapay, alongside former Advent International executive Alessandro Amaro and Mehmet Öner Yalçin, Desia aims to revolutionize how investment professionals interact with data. Why It Matters: The manual sorting of vast amounts of often unstructured data is costly and time-consuming for investment professionals. Desia’s AI-driven approach not only streamlines these processes but also drives a transformative shift towards more informed and effective investment strategies. Their approach is focused and will change the way professionals discover, collate, analyse and present data. This is an important step for human-ai collaboration. Plus I'm super excited to be working with Raffaele and his team. A big shout-out to our co-investors 2100 Ventures, Vento by Exor Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Foreword Ventures, Plug & Play Ventures, and LaunchBay Capital, and to the visionary angel investors who joined this round. Sifted: https://lnkd.in/emgtDme7 PR: https://lnkd.in/eXq6dsaT #VentureCapital #ArtificialIntelligence #FinancialServices #Innovation #StartUpFunding

Congratulations to the team at Talsec! Coming in the footsteps of Avast, Jetbrains and others, Talsec is emerging as the next high potential community-centric startup from the Czech Republic, already providing mission critical protection to thousands of applications globally. We at Dig Ventures are thrilled to back this great team, and excited for our 3rd investment in the country following Deepnote and Rossum 🇨🇿 📱 ❤️ Excited to be working with Michal Ciffra at DEPO Ventures on this investment and grateful to our friends at Presto Ventures who put us all in the same room a while back!