Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture.

Latest funding

$270M Series B+ · August 1, 2024

Led by Lightspeed · Source: startupintros.com

Total raised: $804M across 5 sourced rounds

All 5 rounds ↓

Website: grafana.com.

X: @grafana · 73,296 followers.

GitHub: grafana.

LinkedIn: grafana-labs.

Categories: AI agents Data and analytics Developer tools and cloud.

Sectors: Agentic AI, Analytics, Application Performance Management, Cloud Data Services, Data Visualization.

Stage: Series B+.

Based in: New York, United States.

Founded: 2014.

Total raised: $804M in 5 sourced rounds.

Last round: Aug 1, 2024 · 836 days ago.

Headcount: 1001–5000 employees.

On Recent Funding since: Sep 30, 2026.

Signals

X account@grafana · created Apr 12, 2014 (12 years old) · 73,296 followers

Website registeredMay 27, 2014 (12 years old)

About Grafana Labs

Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions, while getting the visibility they need to run AI systems reliably and at scale.

TIMELINE · MONEY RAISED

Grafana Labs | 1998 days from X account to first raise on record

@grafana·Raised $804M in 5 sourced rounds·2 signals before the first raise

Money raised, round by round (amounts linked to their source). Pins are dated signals; hover the icons for dates.

Funding rounds

Date	Round	Amount	Lead	Source
Aug 1, 2024	Series B+	$270M	LLightspeed	startupintros.com
Apr 6, 2022	Series B+	$240M	GGIC	builtinnyc.com
Aug 24, 2021	Series B+	$220M	CCoatue	globenewswire.com
Aug 17, 2020	Series B+	$50M	LLightspeed	ift.tt
Oct 1, 2019	Series A	$24M	LLightspeed	startupintros.com

Timeline

May 27, 2014
Website created
April 12, 2014
X account created

Founders and team

RD
Raj Dutt Co-founder and CEO

@nopzor · LinkedIn · source: grafana.com
AW
Anthony Wood Co-founder

source: grafana.com
AW
Anthony Woods Founder

LinkedIn
TÖ
Torkel Ödegaard Co-founder and CGO

@torkelo · LinkedIn · source: grafana.com
DK
Dave Kranowitz Chief Revenue Officer
LB
Lora Blum Chief Legal Officer
SF
Scott Fingerhut Chief Marketing Officer
TW
Tom Wilkie Chief Technology Officer
WC
Wailun Chan Chief Financial Officer

Acquisitions

Acquired company	Price	Announced
LLogline	Not disclosed publicly	Apr 21, 2026
KKausal	Not disclosed publicly	Date not given
Kk6	Not disclosed publicly	Date not given
PPace	Not disclosed publicly	Date not given
AAmixr	Not disclosed	Date not given · startupfundraising.com
PPyroscope	Not disclosed publicly	Date not given
AAsserts	Not disclosed publicly	Date not given

Investors

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Sources and API

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