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CloudZero makes the cloud bill tell a better story
A popular feature can be a terrible business. CloudZero connects cloud and AI spending to the customers, products, and decisions behind it - so engineers can see the difference.
North makes the cloud cheaper without marrying the bill
Cloud discounts usually demand a prediction about the next three years. North built a business around a more human admission: you might change your mind.
Ternary wants your cloud bill to explain itself
A spreadsheet with more than 20 tabs offers a clue to Ternary’s appeal: technology spending gets easier to govern when the people making it can see what they are doing.
IBM Kubecost gives the cloud bill a name
Kubernetes made infrastructure shareable. Kubecost made the spending attributable - and built a business around the awkward question of who should pay.
Trax finds the money hiding in your freight bills
A shipment can arrive safely while its paperwork wrecks the business. Trax turns the freight invoice into a financial control - and a surprisingly useful map of how a supply chain really works.
MagicOrange Wants to End the Annual IT Budget Squeeze
Every year, IT is asked to do more with less. MagicOrange follows the money through cloud bills, shared services and AI workloads to make the next budget argument a little harder to bluff.
Vantage
Vantage is a New York-based cloud cost management platform that helps engineering and finance teams analyze, report on, and reduce their cloud, SaaS, and AI spend. Founded in 2020 by former DigitalOcean and AWS product leaders, Vantage consolidates billing data from AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and 20+ providers - including OpenAI and Anthropic - into a single self-service interface built for developers, not just FinOps specialists.
Yotascale
Yotascale is a Palo Alto-based cloud cost management and FinOps platform that helps enterprises allocate, optimize, budget and forecast their spend across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes. Founded in 2015 by former PayPal platform-engineering head Asim Razzaq, the company takes an engineering-first approach to the 'spend attribution problem,' tying cloud costs back to the teams and services that generate them so engineers, finance and executives can share accountability. It is used by companies such as Zoom, Hulu, Okta and other Fortune 1000 firms, and has raised roughly $25 million to date.