A combination of a Series A funding round led by Team8 Capital and a seed round led by Pitango First has led to the emergence of a cost monitoring app for cloud software. Roi Ravhon said that the capital will be put toward adding support for new cloud providers and infrastructure and expanding the team to 40 employees by the end of the year.
Cloud spend can be hard to forecast and manage as companies migrate their workload to the cloud. 32% of a company's cloud budget is wasted due to underestimates of usage. He founded Finout to bring transparency to the cost of cloud-native software.
At Logz.io, where he worked as director of core engineering, he met Asaf Liveanu, who currently serves as Finout's chief technology officer. While running multi-cloud environments, he faced difficult to answer questions such as "Is a 5% increase in Amazon Web Services bill good?" and "How much does a specific customer cost?"
"It became apparent to me that the available tools in the market weren't sufficiently advanced to answer the key questions from leadership." We built the tool we were missing with the help of Yizhar Gilboa and Liveanu.
The cost of cloud providers, data warehouses, and content delivery networks are combined into a large bill by finout. The platform is able to correlate and analyze cost into business metrics while providing recommendations and alert.
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The costs of services and products can be broken out by segments. It can show how much it costs to run a specific app in a specific instance, or how much it costs to run a bunch of different ones in a single instance.
The industry is transitioning to a usage-based model. The leadership and financial teams can use Finout to understand the profitability of their customers. It is great to know that a company spends a million dollars a month on cloud services. Do you think it's a lot? Do you think it's good? Was it correlated to the customers? How much is the bill for a specific customer? Leadership wants to answer these questions as cost management becomes a board-level priority.
VMWare's Cloudhealth, Harness' Continuous Efficiency, and Apptio's Cloudability are some of the incumbents in the space. There's also Spot and Replex. For what it's worth, the only vendor that tackles the "border-based" usage problem is Finout.
Logz.io, Singular, Bigabid, and Riskified are just a few of the customers that are part of finout. The platform has a lot of users.
Both the tech downturn and the Pandemic give us an opportunity to make money. Many companies are focused on controlling their cloud spending because of the tech slowdown and the cloud adoption pushed forward by the Pandemic. With companies across the spectrum now seeking granular-level data points, we are in prime position to absorb significant market share.
The correction in the tech market has shifted focus from top-line growth to profitability, gross margins, unit economics, and healthy business metrics for sustainable, long-term success. We are excited to lead this round because we have seen so many companies struggle to develop a solution to deal with the surge in usage-based cloud pricing. Finout is uniquely positioned to enable cost control across cloud platforms by providing an out-of-the-box solution that empower the modern, cloud-based enterprise to achieve its spending goals.
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