# Raj Dutt

> Raj Dutt is the co-founder and CEO of Grafana Labs, the company behind the open source dashboarding tool used by more than 25 million people. He previously founded and sold the hosting company Voxel to Internap, then co-founded Raintank in 2014 with Torkel Ödegaard and Anthony Woods and later rebranded it as Grafana Labs. In 2025 the company crossed $400M ARR with 7,000+ customers.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Grafana Labs
- **Organizations:** Grafana Labs, Raintank (former name of Grafana Labs), Internap (former), Voxel (former)
- **Education:** B.S., Computer Science and Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- **Known for:** Grew Voxel to over 1,000 customers before its acquisition by Internap, Co-founded Grafana Labs and scaled it past $400M ARR, Grafana OSS reached 25 million+ users worldwide

## Career timeline

- **1999** — Founded Voxel, an infrastructure hosting company, while at Rensselaer
- **2002** — Graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- **2012** — Sold Voxel to Internap for roughly $30M; joined as SVP of Technology
- **2014** — Co-founded Raintank with Torkel Ödegaard and Anthony Woods, building a company around Grafana OSS
- **2017** — Raintank renamed to Grafana Labs
- **2024** — Grafana Labs continues expansion; secondary funding activity around Series D valuations
- **2025** — Grafana Labs surpasses $400M ARR and 7,000 customers; secondary led by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan with Sapphire Ventures and Tiger Global

## Achievements

- Grew Voxel to over 1,000 customers before its acquisition by Internap
- Co-founded Grafana Labs and scaled it past $400M ARR
- Grafana OSS reached 25 million+ users worldwide
- Grafana Labs named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms
- Grafana Labs ranked #13 on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Grafana Labs announced a secondary transaction led by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, alongside a $400M ARR and 7,000+ customer milestone.
- **2025-03** — Discussed the intersection of observability and AI on Bloomberg's Tech Disruptors.

## Links

- Website: https://grafana.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/radutt/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/nopzor
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/raintanksaas/

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Last updated: 2026-07-08