Tsuga Raises €8.7 Million to Help Enterprises Manage Exploding Data Volumes

The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Singular. Additional support came from angel investors including Amjad Masad (Replit), Charles Gorintin (Alan, Mistral AI), Jonathan Benhamou (Resilience), Olivier Bonnet (BlaBlaCar), and Philippe Corrot (Mirakl), among others.

“Our goal with Tsuga, was to create the last observability product the tech giants of today and tomorrow need to empower their teams. Built on crisp paradigms, such as Bring Your Own Cloud, Open Source first, and offering the teams the ability to define their rules to go faster,” said Gabriel-James Safar, CEO of Tsuga, in a public statement.

Tsuga’s Seed round reflects a broader 2025 trend across Europe, with startups tackling observability, data infrastructure, and AI-driven monitoring challenges. In Sweden Rerun raised €15.6 million to expand its multimodal data infrastructure for “Physical AI,” while Ireland’s Bronto secured €12 million to re-engineer log-data management for the AI era. Switzerland’s Qala AG also raised €1.7 million to build a data governance and observability layer for enterprise pipelines.

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Within this context Tsuga’s BYOC architecture and open-source-first approach position it among the next wave of European infrastructure startups emphasizing data control, cost transparency, and scalability. While France has seen fewer observability-focused announcements in 2025 compared with Nordic or Irish markets Tsuga’s emergence underscores strong investor confidence in French DeepTech engineering teams with proven cloud-native observability experience.

“Our mission is simple: to turn observability into a competitive advantage for every company in the AI era hyper-scalable, intelligent and fully in their control,” added Safar.

Founded in 2024, Tsuga was built by a team that has lived and breathed observability at scale. Co-founders, Gabriel-James Safar and Sébastien Deprez, previously founded Madumbo (acquired by Datadog) and went on to lead key product and engineering initiatives at Datadog.

They experienced firsthand the challenges enterprises face in monitoring modern systems, and the limitations of even the best tools on the market.

Early team members, Nils Bunge (formerly Director of Product Management at Datadog) and Valentin Jacquemont (one of Datadog’s first European sales hires), have deep product and go-to-market expertise. And the engineering and product team hails from the likes of Cognition, Datadog, Palantir and other world-class infrastructure companies.

Tsuga’s platform is designed to “see everything, without compromise”—ensuring no missing data no runaway costs, and no trade-offs between control and convenience. The company achieves this through innovative technical architecture that allows businesses to harness the full value of modern cloud-native platforms while maintaining ownership of their data, scalability, and costs.

“In short, Tsuga delivers the simplicity of SaaS without runaway costs, the control of on-prem without the operational pain, and the context and intelligence to deliver outcomes,” adds Safar.

According to Tsuga, over the past decade, data volumes have far outpaced IT budgets: logs, metrics, and traces have grown around 30% annually, while spending increased by less than 10%. The rise of AI-driven development is now pushing this model to its limits. Autonomous code and ephemeral microservices are generating telemetry faster than enterprises can handle, turning the current stack from inefficient into a potential existential risk.

Observability has become mission-critical, yet Tsuga argues the existing paradigm is fundamentally broken. Despite the industry promise of a “single pane of glass,” reality is marked by technical complexity, skyrocketing costs, and mounting operational risk.

The result has been fragmentation, tool sprawl, and blind spots. The promise of unified observability remains unfulfilled, leaving teams anxious, facing runaway costs and exposed to compliance risks.

Tsuga believes that enterprises building for the AI era need a new observability foundation one designed to scale, capture everything, act intelligently, and deliver measurable outcomes.

This is where Tsuga aims to make its mark. With their Seed funding, the company is doubling down on what matters most: product innovation and customer success.

“Observability is by definition a domain where we need to provide engineers with the most valuable set of products, so that they can continue focusing on creating business value for their customers. Listening to them and building what matters to them is and will stay our number one priority,” concludes Safar.

About Tsuga

Tsuga is a next-generation observability platform built on a Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) model. We help engineering teams manage cost, scalability, and data sovereignty without SaaS trade-offs or open-source complexity. In the AI era, Tsuga powers enterprises to achieve high performance, full control, and efficient data observability.