# Jonathan Trevor

> Jonathan Trevor is a Co-Founder of Observe, Inc., an AI-powered observability platform built on a streaming data lake that unifies logs, metrics, and traces to help engineering teams detect, investigate, and resolve incidents faster. He came to Observe from Wavefront (now VMware Tanzu Observability), where he served as Frontend Lead, and before that led frontend engineering at Shocase. Trevor holds a PhD in Computer Science from Lancaster University. Observe - co-founded with Jacob Leverich (ex-Splunk), Jon Watte (ex-Roblox), and Philip Unterbrunner (ex-Snowflake) and incubated by Sutter Hill Ventures - raised $156M in Series C funding in July 2025 before Snowflake announced its intent to acquire the company for approximately $1 billion in January 2026, its largest acquisition to date.

- **Role:** Co-Founder at Observe, Inc. (acquired by Snowflake)
- **Organizations:** Observe, Inc., Snowflake (via acquisition), Wavefront Inc., Shocase, Lancaster University
- **Nationality:** British-American
- **Education:** PhD in Computer Science, Lancaster University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Observe, Inc. in 2017 - now Snowflake's largest acquisition at ~$1 billion, Raised $156M Series C round in July 2025 at a $750M valuation, Built AI-powered observability platform capable of handling petabyte-scale telemetry data

## Career timeline

- **pre-2013** — Completed PhD in Computer Science at Lancaster University
- **2013-12** — Joined Shocase as VP of Frontend Applications
- **2016-06** — Joined Wavefront Inc. as Frontend Lead
- **2017** — Co-founded Observe, Inc. with Jacob Leverich, Jon Watte, and Philip Unterbrunner, incubated by Sutter Hill Ventures
- **2020-10** — Observe emerged from stealth with $35M Series A led by Sutter Hill Ventures
- **2025-07** — Observe raised $156M Series C, valuing the company at $750M
- **2026-01** — Snowflake announced intent to acquire Observe for approximately $1 billion
- **2026** — Snowflake closed acquisition of Observe, Inc.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Observe, Inc. in 2017 - now Snowflake's largest acquisition at ~$1 billion
- Raised $156M Series C round in July 2025 at a $750M valuation
- Built AI-powered observability platform capable of handling petabyte-scale telemetry data
- Helped pioneer unified observability on a streaming data lake architecture, combining logs, metrics, and traces
- Led frontend engineering at Wavefront, one of the pioneering cloud-native monitoring companies
- PhD in Computer Science from Lancaster University

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Snowflake announced intent to acquire Observe, Inc. for approximately $1 billion - Snowflake's largest acquisition to date.
- **2026-01** — Snowflake closed the acquisition of Observe, integrating AI-powered observability into its AI Data Cloud.
- **2025-07** — Observe raised $156M in Series C funding, valuing the company at $750M, to expand AI observability capabilities.

## Links

- Website: https://observeinc.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathantrevor
- GitHub: https://github.com/jonathantrevor

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