Kubecost
AcquiredIBM Kubecost - K8s Cost Monitoring - Apptio
San Francisco, United States · Founded 2019
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Employees
- 51–200
- Founded
- 2019
- Business Model
- B2B
- Website
- kubecost.com
- Last Round
- Series AFeb 2022
- Rounds
- 3
- Acquisition Date
- Sep 2024
About
Kubecost provides real-time cost monitoring and optimization for teams running Kubernetes, offering granular visibility into cloud spend across clusters, namespaces, and workloads. It integrates natively with the cloud-native ecosystem including Prometheus and Grafana, and supports AWS, GCP, and Azure. Now part of IBM Apptio, it helps engineering teams reduce Kubernetes infrastructure costs by 30–50% through automated recommendations and governance controls.
Summary
Kubecost is a Developer Tools company based in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2019. Its most recent funding was a Series A round in Feb 2022. Investors include Afore Capital, First Round Capital and IBM Ventures.
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Funding History
Sep 2024
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