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About
Ignacio de Diego is Corporate Development & Product Strategy Lead at Datadog, where he works across AI, developer tools, observability, and cloud security. He previously invested at Cardumen Capital in Israel, the US, and Europe, focusing on AI, developer tools, infrastructure, and security, and earlier worked as an AI engineer on model training and infrastructure. He also co-founded an early-stage AI startup and chairs the AI Circle Paris.
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Experience
- DatadogCorporate Development & Product Strategy Leadcurrent2025 — presentParis, Île-de-France, France
- AI CircleParis Chaircurrent2025 — present
- Cardumen CapitalAssociate2023 — 2025Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
- Cardumen CapitalAnalyst2022 — 2023Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
- Cardumen CapitalVisiting Analyst2022Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
- BankinterCloud & Distributed Systems Analyst2021Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
- WastyCo-founder & CTO2019 — 2021Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Skills & more
Venture CapitalBusiness StrategyAIData AnalysisMachine LearningData MiningCorporate financePythonMicrosoft OfficeProblem SolvingLeadershipEasily Adaptable
Languages English · German · Spanish
- Venture Deals — Kauffman Fellows
- TOEFL — TOEFL
- Bloomberg Market Concepts - BMC — Bloomberg
- Corporate Finance — Columbia Business School
- Excel Course (Basic, Intermediate & Advanced) — Netzun
- Entrepreneurship Course — Universidad CEU San Pablo
- Cambridge Advanced Exam (CAE) — Cambridge English
From Ignacio's professional profile.
Colleagues at Cardumen Capital
Alberto Criado
Principal at Cardumen Capital
Arinze Onyenezi
Principal at Blue Highway Capital
Arturo Martínez
Financial Controller at Cardumen Capital
Carla Calviño
Analyst at Cardumen Capital
Diego López-Ulloa
Associate at Cardumen Capital
Enrique Burguillos
CFO at Cardumen Capital
Ernersto Gómez-Luengo de la Puente
Analyst at Cardumen Capital
Gonzalo Martinez de Azagra
Founder and General Partner at Cardumen Capital
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Ignacio de Diego?
- Ignacio de Diego is Corporate Development & Product Strategy Lead at Datadog, where he works across AI, developer tools, observability, and cloud security. He previously invested at Cardumen Capital in Israel, the US, and Europe, focusing on AI, developer tools, infrastructure, and security, and earlier worked as an AI engineer on model training and infrastructure. He also co-founded an early-stage AI startup and chairs the AI Circle Paris.
- Where does Ignacio de Diego work?
- Ignacio de Diego is Associate at Cardumen Capital.
- Where did Ignacio de Diego go to school?
- Ignacio de Diego studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (6.S191 Deep Learning); Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science & Engineering); CEU Alumni (Science & Economics Baccalaureate).
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