"Modern software companies no longer run on a single cloud; they're spread across dozens of specialized providers, from AI platforms to data warehouses to edge networks. This fragmentation creates a problem: today's developers grew up building apps in the cloud, but most lack the network engineering skills needed to securely connect all these different services together. The capabilities that tech giants spent years building - private network connections, global infrastructure, and sophisticated traffic routing - remain out of reach for smaller teams."
"Datum solves this through an open network cloud that gives any developer access to enterprise-grade networking capabilities through tools they already use like Kubernetes and Cursor. The company aims to help 1,000 new cloud platforms deploy the kind of infrastructure that previously required months of work and specialized network engineering teams. We raised $13.6M across a combined preseed and seed round."
Modern software companies operate across dozens of specialized cloud providers, creating fragmented infrastructure that requires secure, high-performance connectivity. Many developers lack network engineering expertise to build private connections, global infrastructure, and sophisticated traffic routing that large tech firms maintain. Datum offers an open network cloud that exposes enterprise-grade networking capabilities through familiar developer tools like Kubernetes and Cursor. The company launched a Builder tier with a global edge proxy, integrated WAF, and domains and DNS management. A Scaler tier will introduce a Galactic VPC with virtualized backbones and meet-me rooms. Datum raised $13.6M in combined pre-seed and seed funding to accelerate platform deployment.
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