The Monopoly Moneying the Modern Tech Nightmare: Odigos’ Sweet Spot
As the digital world continues to implode in a mess of data silos and complexity, it’s no surprise that engineering teams are at their wit’s end trying to troubleshoot errors and latency issues. But one startup thinks they’ve cracked the code: Odigos, founded by Israeli developer Eden Federman and investment banker Ari Recht.
Federman’s solution to the observability crisis is distributed tracing, but don’t get too excited – adoption rates are lower than expected due to implementation hurdles. Cue the birth of Odigos, a startup that helps companies monitor their complex, cloud-native systems without requiring extensive manual work.
Here’s the thing: Federman and Recht are basically the odd couple. The former’s a techie, the latter’s a suit, but they’ve somehow managed to create a convincing enough team that even Y Combinator fell for their pitch.
But what’s really happening here is that Odigos is capitalizing on the frustration of enterprise clients who are tired of trying to figure out distributed tracing on their own. Giants can afford to spend the resources, but smaller companies need help. That’s where eBPF comes in – a legacy technology that allows developers to write programs directly in the Linux operating system. It’s like having a magic wand for automating distributed tracing.
Recht and Federman know what they’re talking about, having spent time working with startups and being active open source contributors. In fact, they even donated their initial project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. But let’s not forget – their commercial offering isn’t exactly the same as the open source version. It’s like having a secret recipe that only Odigos knows.
With $13 million in funding from the likes of Boston-based VC firm Venture Guide, Odigos is well on its way to cornering the market on observability solutions. And with a growing list of clients, including one major American company, they’re on track to disrupt the entire industry. Buckle up, tech world – Odigos is here to shake things up.
