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Datum is an ‘open network cloud’ designed to unlock internet superpowers for every agent, app, and builder. Founded in late 2024, we’re built by a great team of humans in a dozen locations and investors from Amplify, Cervin, CRV, Encoded, ex/ante, Step Function, and Vine Ventures.

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Context

Our platform aims to provide traditional internet-scale primitives (e.g. intelligent edge proxies, private backbones, cloud onramps, peering, meet-me-rooms, etc) but with an experience that is 100% programmatic, agent-first, and backed by AGPLv3 open source. We believe that a network cloud in the AI era is a bit different than a traditional CDN, mainly because the use case is intelligence not caching. Additionally, we think that open (open source, open ecosystems) is a critical requirement in a world that is increasingly fragmented and regulated. Our target customer is a modern service provider, which we lovingly call Alt Clouds. We’re looking to support 1000’s of them, so neutrality is an important feature. We started Datum because we saw three big trends:
  1. Intelligence & Data Everywhere
  2. 1000’s of New Providers
  3. An Era of Increased Regulation
We love to chat about these trends, but a quick primer is Zac’s blog post here.
Last modified on March 25, 2026