Datadog Veterans Launch AI Coding Startup Niteshift With $7M Seed, Betting Against Model Lock-In

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A group of Datadog veterans launched Niteshift, an AI coding-agent startup, with a $7 million seed round from a roster of angel investors. The pitch is explicitly anti-lock-in: giving companies control over which models power their agents rather than tying them to a single frontier lab. It reflects a growing thesis that the durable value in agentic coding sits in orchestration and tooling, not the underlying model.