Infracost has Raised a $15 Million Series A

Infracost, enabling engineers to proactively find and fix cloud cost issues, led by Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini, Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, and Alistair Scott, has raised a $15 million Series A, led by Pruven Capital with participation from Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Mango Capital, Alumni Ventures, TIAA Ventures (a strategic investment from TIAA’s venture arm), and angel investors Paul Copplestone (co-founder of Supabase) and Timothy Chen (Essence VC). Sudip Chakrabarti has joined the Infracost board.

Cloud spending is nearing the trillion-dollar mark, driven largely by engineers who now access and deploy resources directly. This accelerates innovation but also demands a new cost-management approach as daily purchasing decisions shift to engineering teams.

A core challenge in Cloud Cost Management and FinOps is that analysis typically begins with the bill, meaning costs are reviewed only after resources have already been launched and engineers have moved on. Infracost addresses this by operating directly within code repositories, calculating the cost impact of Infrastructure-as-Code changes before they are merged, and identifying optimization opportunities early. This approach, described as “shifting FinOps left,” fills a critical gap in cloud cost governance.

Shifting FinOps left provides two key benefits.

Cost avoidance: Engineers see the cost impact of changes early and adjust before spending occurs, helping avoid unnecessary fees such as extended support charges on outdated cloud services.

Time savings: FinOps issues caught pre-merge can be fixed in minutes, while post-deployment fixes require downtime, new pull requests, reviews, and redeployments.

As engineering teams accelerate innovation, platform engineering has enabled decentralized access to cloud infrastructure, allowing any engineer to provision resources as needed. With this shift, integrating cloud cost visibility directly into the engineering workflow becomes essential, ensuring cost-aware decisions are made as code is written or generated by AI.

More than 3,500 companies, including 10 percent of the Fortune 500, now use Infracost. With over 4 million cloud prices tracked across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, teams can identify overspend early and optimize code before production.

Sudip Chakrabarti of Pruven Capital described Infracost as the “cloud checkout screen” that shows the cost impact of every code change and highlights optimizations to prevent overspend.

The focus is on enabling engineers to take action during development rather than reacting after bills arrive. Three new features support this:

Issue Explorer: Scans existing Infrastructure-as-Code and surfaces immediate optimization opportunities.

AutoFix: Uses AI to open pull requests with optimized IaC changes.

Campaigns: Automates organization-wide FinOps initiatives, such as coordinated migrations to Graviton instance types.