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<ul><li>Datadog, a leader in observability and security, is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity firm Upwind for approximately $1 billion, according to a report by Calcalist.</li><li>The move comes just months after Upwind raised $100 million in a Series A funding round, valuing the startup at roughly $900 million.</li><li>As Datadog continues expanding its product portfolio, especially in cloud-native security and AI observability, the potential acquisition of Upwind signals a strategic push deeper into cloud workload protection and runtime security.</li></ul>

Datadog, a leader in observability and security, is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity firm Upwind for approximately $1 billion, according to a report by Calcalist.The move comes just months after Upwind raised $100 million in a Series A funding round, valuing the startup at roughly $900 million.As Datadog continues expanding its product portfolio, especially in cloud-native security and AI observability, the potential acquisition of Upwind signals a strategic push deeper into cloud workload protection and runtime security.

Datadog Eyes $1 Billion Upwind Deal: Could This Be A Game-Changer For Cloud Security?

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Sumeet Singh

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We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/avepoint-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:37131:1" rel="noopener">AvePoint (AVPT US)</a> , a global provider of data security, governance, and resilience, aims to raise around US$300m in its Singapore secondary listing.</li>
<li>As of FY24, AP had over 25,000 customers who rely on its Confidence Platform to prepare, secure, and optimize their critical data across environments.</li>
<li>In this note, we look at its past performance and other deal dynamics that might impact the listing.</li>
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AvePoint (AVPT US) , a global provider of data security, governance, and resilience, aims to raise around US$300m in its Singapore secondary listing.
As of FY24, AP had over 25,000 customers who rely on its Confidence Platform to prepare, secure, and optimize their critical data across environments.
In this note, we look at its past performance and other deal dynamics that might impact the listing.


AvePoint SGX Secondary Listing - Strong Growth and Large Client Base but Unclear Metrics

<ul><li>Regarding Datadog's Q1 2025 financial results, the company reported a solid performance with a revenue of $762 million, representing a 25% year-over-year increase.</li><li>This figure surpassed the high end of their guidance.</li><li>Datadog revealed a customer base of approximately 30,500, with about 3,770 customers having an Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) of $100,000 or more, accounting for 88% of ARR.</li></ul>

Regarding Datadog's Q1 2025 financial results, the company reported a solid performance with a revenue of $762 million, representing a 25% year-over-year increase.This figure surpassed the high end of their guidance.Datadog revealed a customer base of approximately 30,500, with about 3,770 customers having an Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) of $100,000 or more, accounting for 88% of ARR.

Datadog’s AI Playbook: Will Data Observability Be the Key to Dominating the Future?

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CMB International

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Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

<ul><li>Datadog (DDOG US) released (6 May HKT) its 1Q25 results: total revenue was US$761.6mn, up 24.6% YoY (1Q24: 26.9%; 4Q24: 25.1%), 3% better than both our forecast and Bloomberg consensus forecast; non-GAAP net income after tax adjustment was US$167.9mn, up 6.5% YoY, and was 10/8% better than our forecast/consensus, driven by the beat in revenue, and better-than-expected operating efficiency improvement.</li><li>Although the incremental investment may weigh on near-term margin expansion, we remain positive on DDOG’s long-term business development potential, driven by the secular trend of digital transformation and cloud migration.</li><li>We lift 2025-2027E revenue forecast by 1% to account for better-than-expected usage growth, while cut non-GAAP net profit forecast by 1-2% to factor in rising cloud hosting costs which may weigh on GPM.</li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

Datadog (DDOG US) released (6 May HKT) its 1Q25 results: total revenue was US$761.6mn, up 24.6% YoY (1Q24: 26.9%; 4Q24: 25.1%), 3% better than both our forecast and Bloomberg consensus forecast; non-GAAP net income after tax adjustment was US$167.9mn, up 6.5% YoY, and was 10/8% better than our forecast/consensus, driven by the beat in revenue, and better-than-expected operating efficiency improvement.Although the incremental investment may weigh on near-term margin expansion, we remain positive on DDOG’s long-term business development potential, driven by the secular trend of digital transformation and cloud migration.We lift 2025-2027E revenue forecast by 1% to account for better-than-expected usage growth, while cut non-GAAP net profit forecast by 1-2% to factor in rising cloud hosting costs which may weigh on GPM.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Datadog (DDOG US) - 1Q Results Beat; Sustained Investment to Drive Business Growth

<ul><li>Datadog reported its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2024, revealing a strong performance characterized by a 25% year-over-year revenue increase to $738 million, surpassing the high end of its guidance range.</li><li>The company highlighted robust growth in customer adoption, reporting a rise in its total customer base to approximately 30,000, with significant contributions from customers generating over $100,000 in annual recurring revenue (ARR).</li><li>Notably, Datadog marked the expansion of its key products with infrastructure monitoring contributing over $1.25 billion in ARR and both log management and end-to-end application performance management (APM) exceeding $750 million each.</li></ul>

Datadog reported its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2024, revealing a strong performance characterized by a 25% year-over-year revenue increase to $738 million, surpassing the high end of its guidance range.The company highlighted robust growth in customer adoption, reporting a rise in its total customer base to approximately 30,000, with significant contributions from customers generating over $100,000 in annual recurring revenue (ARR).Notably, Datadog marked the expansion of its key products with infrastructure monitoring contributing over $1.25 billion in ARR and both log management and end-to-end application performance management (APM) exceeding $750 million each.

Datadog Inc.: Product Innovations For Sustained Expansion Across Diverse Deployment Scenarios!

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Datadog, Inc. provides software solutions. The Company offers cloud-based monitoring and analytics platform which integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, and log management for real-time observability of customers. Datadog operates worldwide.

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Datadog Eyes $1 Billion Upwind Deal: Could This Be A Game-Changer For Cloud Security?

Datadog, a leader in observability and security, is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity firm Upwind for approximately $1...

Baptista Research

AvePoint SGX Secondary Listing - Strong Growth and Large Client Base but Unclear Metrics

AvePoint (AVPT US) , a global provider of data security, governance, and resilience, aims to raise around US$300m in its Singapore secondary listing.

Sumeet Singh

Datadog’s AI Playbook: Will Data Observability Be the Key to Dominating the Future?

Regarding Datadog's Q1 2025 financial results, the company reported a solid performance with a revenue of $762 million, representing a 25%...

Baptista Research

Datadog (DDOG US) - 1Q Results Beat; Sustained Investment to Drive Business Growth

Our new TP of US$158.7 (was US$156.4) is based on unchanged 16.6x 2025E EV/sales, inline with its two-year average plus one s.d. Maintain BUY.

CMB International

Datadog Inc.: Product Innovations For Sustained Expansion Across Diverse Deployment Scenarios!

Datadog reported its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2024, revealing a strong performance characterized by a 25% year-over-year...

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