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eG Innovations and the Case of the Innocent Server
Every team has a healthy dashboard. The user still has a slow application. eG Innovations built a business around finding the trouble between those two facts.
The Three-Second Problem That Built Netdata
The dashboards said the machines were fine. The transactions said otherwise. Netdata grew from the seconds between those two stories.
The Dashcam That Wants to Give a City Eyes
NAYAN’s cameras ride buses, police vehicles and commercial fleets, turning ordinary journeys into a live index of potholes, violations and risky driving. The clever part is not the lens - it is the workflow that turns street footage into evidence someone can act on.
Datadog Put the Cloud on One Screen. Then the Meter Started Running.
Datadog made a large business out of ending one old argument: developers blamed operations, operations blamed developers, and neither side saw the same evidence. Its unified screen now watches everything from Kubernetes clusters to AI agents - while asking customers to watch the meter, too.
Virtana Survived the Cloud by Learning to Watch Everything
It began by peering into storage networks most software ignored. After a funding shock, three deals and a cloud-era reinvention, Virtana is betting that the best way to manage AI infrastructure is still to start with better evidence.
LogicMonitor wants to turn your 1,000 daily alerts into a shorter night shift
The observability company spent 18 years learning how enterprise systems break. Now it is betting that Edwin AI can turn a wall of warnings into an explanation - and, carefully, an action.
Viridien Built a Supercomputer Business by Learning to See Through Rock
The company once known mainly for seismic surveys has become an asset-light seller of Earth data, algorithms, sensors and computing power. Its wager is simple: the machinery built to understand reservoirs can also help industry understand almost anything difficult, hidden or computationally expensive.
AppPerfect Corp
For more than two decades, AppPerfect has worked the unglamorous seam between a software demo and a dependable production system. Its bet is simple: test the failure, watch the machinery, and fix the bottleneck before users find it first.
SolarWinds
The unglamorous software that keeps 300,000 networks from falling over - and the Austin company that learned to rebuild trust after the most talked-about hack of the decade.
New Relic
New Relic is a San Francisco-based, AI-powered observability platform that gives engineering teams a single place to see everything running in their software - from application code and infrastructure to logs, user experience, and AI models. Founded in 2008 by Lew Cirne, it helped popularize application performance monitoring (APM) and later coined much of the modern 'observability' category. After going public in 2014 and being taken private in a $6.5 billion deal in 2023, New Relic now serves thousands of companies with usage-based, consumption pricing and a strong bet on AI and agentic observability.
Observe, Inc.
Observe is an AI-powered observability platform that unifies logs, metrics, and traces into a single streaming data lake built on Snowflake. The company helps enterprises troubleshoot distributed applications 3x faster at one-third the cost of traditional monitoring tools. Founded in 2017 by veterans from Splunk, Wavefront, and Snowflake, Observe was acquired by Snowflake in January 2026 for approximately $1 billion after raising over $665 million in funding.