While we will provide a developer-led experience, as a business we’re 100% focused on the challenges and opportunities of scale. If you’re building a Snowflake, Vercel, MongoDB, Grafana, DataDog or AI equivalent, we would love to talk.

We believe our biggest differentiators include a focus on service provider use cases; a commercial model that treats partner success as a first principle; and a strategy  built around connecting ecosystems.

Oh, and a team that has spent 20 years building and running infrastructure platforms and sees Datum as their life’s work.

We’re big believers in a future that combines specialized software with specialized hardware, but we don’t love buzzwords. We’re internet plumbers, and we think our job is to make technology easier to deploy, connect, operate, and scale.

Datum is currently funded by its co-founders, Zac and Jacob Smith, with support from a small group of angels and Encoded.vc

At Equinix, Zac and Jacob observed the power of a magnetic ecosystem built around networks, but saw how difficult it was for new providers to participate. With Datum, we want to help thousands of companies benefit from that kind of network ecosystem value.