Adaptive6 emerged from stealth with $28 million in Series A funding, bringing its total capital raised to $44 million as the company pushes an engineering-first approach to cloud cost governance that it says can reduce overall cloud spend by 15% to 35%. The round was led by U.S. Venture Partners, with participation from New Era Capital Partners, Forgepoint Capital, Pitango VC, and Vertex Ventures.
The New York-based company is positioning its platform as a “cybersecurity-style” model for cloud cost management, arguing that while finance teams can track spend, the sources of waste typically live in infrastructure configurations and code changes owned by engineering teams. Adaptive6 said it continuously scans for “hundreds of types of waste” across major cloud providers, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, as well as SaaS and PaaS environments such as Snowflake and Databricks, and Infrastructure as Code repositories like Terraform.
A core element of the pitch is what Adaptive6 calls “Cloud-to-Code” technology, which traces a cost issue back to the specific code line or configuration that introduced it, then routes the finding to the responsible engineer with context and a recommended fix. The company said remediation can be deployed directly to the cloud or submitted as a pull request to an Infrastructure as Code repository, and that the product integrates with Git and CI/CD pipelines to support automated pull requests or fully automated remediation workflows. It also emphasized “shift-left” preventative policy enforcement intended to catch cost issues before deployment.
Adaptive6 said it is already working with dozens of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises, including Bayer and Ticketmaster, and highlighted “Shadow Waste” as a category of hidden inefficiencies it claims traditional tools often miss. The company also pointed to an example in which it said a single misconfiguration fix saved more than $1 million annually.
The financing arrives as enterprises continue to scrutinize cloud spending amid broader cost-optimization efforts. Adaptive6 cited recurring industry estimates that roughly 30% of enterprise cloud spend is wasted and estimated the total wasted spend at more than $200 billion in 2025. With new funding in hand, the company is doubling down on its Cloud Cost Governance and Optimization framework, aiming to embed cost governance directly into the developer workflow rather than treating it primarily as a finance-led reporting function.
KEY QUOTES
“Cloud cost has been treated as a finance problem, but finance doesn’t own the code. The only way to actually fix cloud waste is to shift-left and bring cost governance into the engineering workflow.”
“We built Adaptive6 to be the first end-to-end platform for cloud cost governance and optimization. We detect what’s already wasting money, prevent new inefficiencies before they deploy, and remediate at scale, all within the engineering workflow.”
Aviv Revach, CEO and Co-Founder, Adaptive6
“Cloud cost is undergoing the same fundamental shift that transformed cybersecurity, moving from a compliance function to an engineering practice, and Adaptive6 is leading that transition. They’ve brought the cybersecurity playbook to FinOps: detect, trace to code, remediate. Their growing enterprise traction confirms the strength of their vision and execution.”
Jacques Benkoski, General Partner, U.S. Venture Partners
“Adaptive6 is a game changer in cloud cost governance and optimization. As a large enterprise with complex infrastructure, Adaptive6 has helped us regain control of cloud waste and empowered our engineers to eliminate it at scale.”
Michael Aideloje, Lead Product Manager for Cloud FinOps, Bayer
