CloudZero
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Cloud Cost & Multi-Cloud Management
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$105.6M
6 rounds on record
Latest round
$48M
Series C · Feb 2025 · 20 mo ago
Team
143
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Feb 2026 · +12% in a year
Hiring now
15
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Matrix, Underscore VC
The money's age
Due for its next round
20 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
20/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 22
Launched CloudZero launches AI Signals to put finance leaders back in control of AI spend · tmcnet.com
May 28
Launched CloudZero, The AI ROI Company, Launches the Financial Control Plane for AI · morningstar.com
Nov 10, 2025
Launched CloudZero Releases Kubernetes Optimization Capabilities, Uniting Cluster Visibility And Efficiency · YahooFinance
Feb 5, 2025
Raised a round Series C $48M · SEC Form D
Sep 27, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $6M · SEC Form D
Nov 21, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $9.5M · SEC Form D
Jun 12, 2023
Raised a round Series B $32M · led by Innovius Capital · TechCrunch
Dec 7, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $8M · SEC Form D
Dec 10, 2019
Raised a round Venture round $2.1M · SEC Form D
2016
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.29%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
5
best: 2 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | Feb 2025 | $48M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Sep 2024 | $6M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Nov 2023 | $9.5M | — | SEC Form D |
| Series B | Jun 2023 | $32M | Innovius Capital lead, Threshold Ventures lead | TechCrunch |
| Venture round | Dec 2020 | $8M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Dec 2019 | $2.1M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | CloudZero Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Don BulensDirectorSEC Form D
Erik PetersonDirectorSEC Form D
Philip PergolaExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Matrix 
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How CloudZero hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
CloudZero scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
CloudZero is a cloud cost intelligence software company that helps engineering and finance teams measure and allocate cloud and AI spending. Its platform maps costs from AWS, other cloud providers and AI services to products, features and customers to calculate unit costs and return on investment. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
News
We stopped asking an LLM how much its own work would cost
There's a specific kind of measurement problem worth naming precisely rather than dramatizing: this month we found that our model-routing agent was assigning a token budget to every unit of work, and that budget was noise in the strict sense. Fixing it me
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Shipped: A customer support experience that starts with an answer
Why this matters When you have a question about your cloud or AI spend, you want an answer quickly, not a ticket that disappears into a queue. Support should not mean waiting for business hours, repeating your account details to multiple people, or wonder
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AI finally plans like every other line in my budget
September is associated with football, foliage, flannel and, for some, the Financial Plan. As we put pen to paper (or agents to harnesses), there's a few core elements that have always driven the P&L outlook for the following year: rep productivity and ne
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Stop capping your best people.
Somewhere in your company, a team is three weeks into the AI project that's going to matter. Somewhere else, a support pilot from the spring is still summarizing every ticket with a frontier model, and nobody has looked at it since it started working. On
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Best LLM inference providers 2026: 16+ on cost per outcome
Somewhere right now, two teams are running the exact same Llama 3.3 70B model in production. One pays about $0.12 per million tokens on a quantized FP8 tier. The other pays about $1.05 for full-precision serving, close to nine times more, per Saturn Cloud
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Perplexity pricing in 2026: Free vs. Pro vs. Max, and who should pay
When Perplexity published a customer quote on its own pricing page, it chose an unusual one. Chris Powell, the chief information officer at Montana's Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, didn't praise the answers. He priced his team's Enterpr
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Build vs. buy: should you build your own AI cost management tooling?
CloudZero sells the "buy" side. CloudZero also spent years on the "build" side, and our SVP of Engineering has published the scar tissue. Building it taught us respect for the question. So this is the framework we'd want handed to us, with the honest sect
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Kling AI pricing in 2026: plans, credit costs, API packages, and the spend no invoice shows
When OpenAI shut down the Sora app in April 2026, the commercial AI video market consolidated around a handful of serious players, led by Kling, Google's Veo 3.1, and Runway, with ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 and xAI's Grok Imagine rounding out the field. Kli
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ElevenLabs pricing in 2026: plans, credits, and agent costs
The AI agency PxlPeak published its own ElevenLabs invoice: $303 for January 2026, covering voice content for six clients, IVR systems for two, and live voice agents for three. What surprises their clients isn't the total. It's the mix. As founder John V.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at CloudZero over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
69
Postings analysed
19
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL42%
Python21%
Go16%
C++5%
Frameworks & libraries
Dagster5%
Flink5%
Databases
Snowflake26%
Google BigQuery16%
BigQuery11%
Amazon Redshift5%
Cloud & platforms
Anthropic100%
AWS63%
Azure42%
GCP42%
AI & ML
Claude21%
LLM11%
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69 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$178k
Typical range
$60k – $240k
Open positions
14
13
Jobs
Middle
15.4%
Senior
53.8%
Staff
15.4%
Principal
7.7%
Architect
7.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 2 | $145k | $130k – $160k |
| Senior | 7 | $185k | $140k – $230k |
| Staff | 2 | $195k | $170k – $220k |
| Principal | 1 | $240k | $240k |
| Architect | 1 | $220k | $220k |
Highest paying role
Principal Product Manager, Agentic Systems
$240k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at CloudZero
By role, level and city, against the market · 14 jobs with pay
People
Don Bulens
Director
Erik Peterson
Director
Philip Pergola
Executive Officer, Director
Michael Skok
Director
Tim Barrows
Director
Justin Moore
Director
James Orsillo
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
56/100
Growing
Open positions
15
1 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
77 days
faster than 17% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Marketing
15% ▼
Sales
15% ▲
Solutions
15% ▼
AI/ML
8% ▲
Backend
8% ▼
DevOps
8% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Google GKE to stack
Oct 2026
Added GitOps to stack
Oct 2026
Added Azure AKS to stack
Oct 2026
Added Amazon EKS to stack
Oct 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added DLP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Looker to stack
Sep 2026
Added Domo to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tool Use to stack
Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Sep 2026
Added BigQuery to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Boston
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Boston
United States
HQ
14 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 14% engineering 200-500 est. staff $178k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Marketing, Sales
San Francisco
United States
Support & operations
8 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 13% engineering 13% remote 50-200 est. staff $194k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Solutions, DevOps
Jobs
$145k – $230k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Boston
Python
Go
SQL
Snowflake
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
Dagster
dbt
Prefect
AWS Bedrock
LLM
RAG
Anthropic
Human-in-the-Loop
Tool Use
DevOps
Rest API
GCP
CloudFormation
Pulumi
Azure
AWS
AWS Lambda
IAM
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon EventBridge
Cybersecurity
Okta
ISO 27001
SOC 2
Management
Slack
Jira
Google Workspace
Apply
$85k – $130k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • Boston
SQL
Snowflake
AI/ML
Claude Code
AI Agents
Anthropic
OpenAI Codex
DevOps
Rest API
GCP
Azure
AWS
FinOps
Cybersecurity
Sumo Logic
Management
Intercom
Apply
≈ $182k – $341k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Boston
Claude
Anthropic
Apply
$130k – $150k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Boston • San Francisco
SQL
Anthropic
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
FinOps
Analytics
Tableau
Looker
Domo
Apply
$150k – $170k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Boston • San Francisco
SQL
Anthropic
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
FinOps
Analytics
Tableau
Looker
Domo
Apply
$170k – $200k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • Boston • San Francisco
Python
Go
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Anthropic
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
GitHub Actions
CloudFormation
Pulumi
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
Google GKE
Azure AKS
IAM
Cybersecurity
Sumo Logic
Apply
$220k – $240k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Boston • San Francisco
AI Agents
Anthropic
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Platform Engineering
FinOps
Apply
$170k – $220k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco • Boston
SQL
Copilot
Cursor
Claude Code
AI Agents
Anthropic
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
FinOps
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Apply
Financials
Total raised
$105.6M
Latest round
Series C
Funding rounds
6