CloudZero

The last major technology transformation, cloud, changed how we built software businesses. We could build faster and leaner than ever before. But it came at a cost: dramatically lower margins, and a fight with the hyper-scalers over how much of the value chain they’d capture. The companies that won that fight were the ones who understood their unit economics – what does it actually cost to deliver product X for customer Y on cloud Z? For companies whose costs were shared, variable, and hard to predict CloudZero was the only one who could answer that question. Now it’s happening again with AI. This time, it’s structurally harder. Every AI cost is inherently shared, variable, and unpredictable. Whether you’re building your product with coding agents, rapidly approaching 30% of R&D spend,  embedding AI into your product, or replacing human workflows with models, these costs are growing at a breakneck pace with no regard to margin and zero visibility into what it costs to serve a single customer. Nobody else can answer that question. We already can, and we’re not starting from scratch. We have the architecture, the customers, and the credibility. We’re the first listed partner on Anthropic’s usage and cost API docs. Our customers aren’t waiting for us to pitch them, they’re asking us to solve this. This is a proven company stepping into a much bigger category at exactly the right moment. We’re building cost intelligence for humans, and for the agents those humans deploy. To date, we’ve raised over $52M from leading venture capital firms nationwide. Our investors:

We’re solving problems of massive scale, business importance, and complexity in a space that needs it more than ever. We’re growing rapidly and would love for you to be a part of it.   Recent News: