Startup profile for Vantage: latest funding, latest known valuation, total disclosed funding, investors, status, sources, and why the company is interesting. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker startup directory.
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Vantage funding, valuation and investors

Cloud cost visibility and FinOps platform for engineering and finance teams.

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Funding, valuation & investors

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Latest funding

Series A

$21M · March 2023

Latest known valuation

Not publicly disclosed

Total disclosed equity funding

$25M

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

series a · New York, NY

Investors in latest funding

Lead: Scale Venture Partners

Other: Andreessen Horowitz

Sources: latest funding Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

Vantage provides cloud cost transparency and optimization — connecting AWS, Azure, GCP, and SaaS spend into dashboards with recommendations, forecasting, and unit economics. Founded by Ben Schaechter and Brooke McKim (ex-DigitalOcean), Vantage raised a $4M seed led by a16z and a $21M Series A in March 2023 led by Scale Venture Partners with a16z participating. The company reports helping customers manage over $1 billion in annualized cloud costs, with clients including Square, NASA, Rippling, and PlanetScale.

Why Vantage is interesting

Vantage turned AWS billing confusion into dashboards engineers act on — a16z seed, Scale-led $21M Series A as customers managed $1B+ annual cloud spend on platform.

Product & use cases

Vantage connects cloud accounts in one click, breaks down spend by service and tag, forecasts costs, and surfaces optimization recommendations — expanding to Datadog, Snowflake, and other SaaS bills.

  • Engineering teams attributing cloud spend to products and teams
  • FinOps groups reporting unit economics to leadership
  • Startups preventing AWS bill shock with alerts and recommendations

Key facts

  • Series A (Mar 2023): $21M led by Scale VP; a16z seed and Series A participant
  • Customers manage $1B+ annualized cloud costs on platform
  • 300+ customers including Square, NASA, Rippling
  • Founders ex-DigitalOcean engineering

Funding history (newest first)

Series A

2023-03 $21M

Source: https://www.vantage.sh/blog/vantage-raises-21m-series-a

Seed

2021-06 $4M

Source: https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-vantage/

Investors in our directory

Funds linked from Vantage's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.

Andreessen Horowitz Scale Venture Partners

Competitive landscape

Edge: Developer-friendly UX from DigitalOcean alumni — faster time-to-insight than enterprise cloud financial management suites.

FinOps tools proliferated as cloud bills became board-level issues. Vantage wins on UX and SaaS bill expansion; must compete with incumbents selling to FinOps teams at scale.

  • CloudHealth (VMware) incumbent

    Enterprise cloud cost management.

  • Finout direct

    FinOps platform competitor.

  • Native cloud cost tools (AWS Cost Explorer) incumbent

    Free but limited cross-cloud and SaaS scope.

Notable stories

  • a16z's investing post called cloud cost transparency the first step before any optimization — Vantage's one-click AWS dashboard became the onboarding wedge (a16z announcement).

Industries

Enterprise SaaS Infrastructure & Cloud Fintech

FAQs about Vantage

Practical answers founders, operators, and investors typically search for.

Vantage is a FinOps platform for cloud cost visibility, reporting, and optimization across AWS, Azure, GCP, and SaaS.
Scale Venture Partners led Series A; a16z led seed. See /fund/scale-venture-partners and /fund/andreessen-horowitz.
Vantage adds cross-cloud views, SaaS integrations, forecasting, and team-friendly dashboards.
March 2023 — $21M led by Scale VP.
Ben Schaechter and Brooke McKim, formerly at DigitalOcean.
Yes — expanded beyond hyperscalers to Datadog, Snowflake, MongoDB, and others.
$1B+ annualized across customers per Series A announcement.
Not publicly disclosed.
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