OpenObserve, a modern observability platform delivering 140x lower storage costs with zero database management, has raised $10 million in a Series A financing round to scale its go-to-market operations and support a growing customer base. The round was led by Nexus Venture Partners and Dell Technologies Capital, both of whom participated in the company’s seed round and preemptively funded this raise based on strong conviction in the company’s momentum and enterprise traction.
The San Francisco-based company has seen significant adoption, with over 6,000 organizations — including many Fortune 100 companies — actively using its open-source platform, which has accumulated over 18,000 GitHub stars. OpenObserve replaces fragmented legacy observability stacks such as Prometheus-Grafana and ELK with a single high-performance platform that ingests logs, metrics, and traces, as well as real user monitoring, pipelines, visualization, incident management, and anomaly detection, while applying embedded AI to understand and act on inputs in real time.
The company’s new suite of AI capabilities includes an AI site reliability engineer, an autonomous layer that transforms raw telemetry into operational intelligence without requiring engineering teams to manually sort signal from noise. The suite also includes MCP support and LLM observability. OpenObserve has expanded its regional footprint with new availability in the U.S. West and the European Union and added hosting support on Microsoft Azure. The company has also named Shani Shoham as chief revenue officer to lead its commercial expansion.
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We simplify the complexity of the AI-native world with a single, high-performance observability platform that transforms raw telemetry into autonomous action. This enables companies to move from firefighting to proactive, autonomous operations, Observability 3.0, and build the products that drive their businesses forward.
Prabhat Sharma, Founder and CEO, OpenObserve
When we led OpenObserve’s seed round, we believed the observability stack was overdue for reinvention. What Prabhat and the OpenObserve team have built since then — in terms of customer traction, architectural differentiation, and a futuristic AI roadmap — has not only validated that belief but positioned the company as a category-defining force in modern observability.
Abhishek Sharma, Partner, Nexus Venture Partners
We talk to enterprise customers every day and they are drowning in data in this AI/agent-first world. They need actionable insights, true, but what they’re looking for now are autonomous solutions that measurably lighten workloads. Prabhat has been focused on that future since day one of OpenObserve. With what’s been accomplished so far, our conviction in this team just continues to grow.
Deepak Jeevankumar, Managing Director, Dell Technologies Capital
