Team

Founders
Datum is the brainchild of Zac and Jacob Smith, cloud infrastructure veterans (Voxel, Packet, Equinix) and identical twin brothers with a passion for connecting others.
Zac Smith, Datum co-founder
Zac Smith
Infrastructure and open source nerd since 2001. Most recently leader of the Metal and Network Edge businesses at Equinix.
Jacob Smith, Datum co-founder
Jacob Smith
Former marketing guy and current product and brand builder. Passionate about holistic go-to-market and connecting the dots.
The Team
Shaping Datum are a team of passionate experts with backgrounds at StackPath, SoftLayer, Google, Fastly and Zscaler.
Zac Smith, Datum co-founder
Chris Berridge
Brand & product design leader shaping Datum from its first words and pixels.
Zac Smith, Datum co-founder
Steve Smyser
Financial and business operations leader who makes sure of the details.
Zac Smith, Datum co-founder
Alex Benik
Trusted advisor and longtime investor at Battery, now Encoded.vc.
Zac Smith, Datum co-founder
Joshua Reese
Industry veteran who worked across the stack at the Planet, SoftLayer and StackPath.
Zac Smith, Datum co-founder
Scot Wells
Platform engineering guru who helped scale infra and systems at Highwinds and StackPath.
Zac Smith, Datum co-founder
James Lal
Founder & CEO of Little Bear Labs. Expert in webRTC and delivering bits at scale.
Zac Smith, Datum co-founder
Aus Lacroix
Engineering leader from Little Bear Labs with a background in both media and enterprise software.
Zac Smith, Datum co-founder
Angus Bezzina
Full stack engineer from Little Bear Labs with a penchant for front end technologies and problem solving.
Zac Smith, Datum co-founder
Jose Szychowski
Backend developer, passionate about creating innovative solutions and tackling big challenges.
Investors
Datum is supported by its founders and a group of  visionary venture funds.
Encoded VC, Alex Benik
Vine Ventures
OSS Capital, Joseph Jacks
Cervin
Step Function VC