Adaptive6 emerges from stealth with $44M to detect and remediate cloud waste, bringing the cybersecurity playbook to cloud cost governance

Dozens of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises, including Bayer and Ticketmaster, are already eliminating cloud waste using Adaptive6’s AI-powered remediation engine

Adaptive6 is a portfolio company of Vertex Ventures Israel.

NEW YORK, Jan. 28, 2026 — Adaptive6, the leader in cloud cost governance, today emerged from stealth with $28 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funding to $44 million. The round was led by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), with participation from New Era Capital Partners, Forgepoint Capital, Pitango VC, and Vertex Ventures.

Adaptive6 is already helping dozens of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises, including Bayer and Ticketmaster, eliminate cloud waste by embedding AI-powered cost governance directly into engineering workflows.

Over recent years, reports consistently show that roughly 30% of enterprise cloud spend is wasted, totaling upwards of $200 billion in 2025. While finance teams have platforms to track costs, the inefficiencies themselves live in infrastructure and code created by engineers, who often do not realize they are making spending decisions. Existing tools provide visibility into what was spent, but they were not built to eliminate the waste itself.

“Cloud cost has been treated as a finance problem, but finance doesn’t own the code,” said Aviv Revach, CEO and co-founder of Adaptive6. “The only way to actually fix cloud waste is to shift left and bring cost governance into the engineering workflow.”

Adaptive6 addresses this challenge with a new paradigm called Cloud Cost Governance and Optimization (CCGO), treating cost inefficiencies the way modern security platforms treat vulnerabilities. The platform continuously scans for hundreds of types of waste across multi-cloud environments, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure; SaaS and PaaS platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks; and Infrastructure-as-Code repositories like Terraform.

Each issue is traced back to the exact line of code that created it using Adaptive6’s first-of-its-kind Cloud-to-Code technology, then surfaced to the responsible engineer with full technical context and a recommended fix. With one click, the fix can be deployed directly to the cloud or submitted as a pull request to the Infrastructure-as-Code repository.

Customers typically see 15–35% reductions in total cloud spend. In one case, a single misconfiguration fix saved more than $1 million in annual costs.

“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,” said Jacques Benkoski, General Partner at USVP. “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.”

“Adaptive6 is a game changer in cloud cost governance and optimization,” said Michael Aideloje, Lead Product Manager for Cloud FinOps at Bayer. “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.”

The platform’s proprietary detection engine identifies both visible waste and “Shadow Waste”, hidden inefficiencies that traditional tools miss. Its AI-powered remediation engine integrates directly with Git and CI/CD pipelines, supporting automated pull requests and fully automated remediation workflows. Preventative policy enforcement shifts governance left, catching cost issues in code before deployment.

“We built Adaptive6 to be the first end-to-end platform for cloud cost governance and optimization,” said Revach. “We detect what’s already wasting money, prevent new inefficiencies before they deploy, and remediate at scale, all within the engineering workflow.”

About Adaptive6

Adaptive6 is the pioneer of Cloud Cost Governance and Optimization (CCGO), an engineering-first approach to optimizing cloud infrastructure. By focusing on shadow waste detection, policy-driven governance, and AI-powered remediation, Adaptive6 empowers engineers to reduce waste and drive efficiency at scale. The platform integrates directly with Git and CI/CD pipelines, enabling shift-left prevention of cost inefficiencies before deployment.

Founded by Aviv Revach (CEO), Omer Müller (CTO), and Eyal Brosh (COO & Chief of Engineering), all alumni of Israel’s elite intelligence Unit 8200, Adaptive6 brings a cybersecurity mindset to cloud cost management. The leadership team brings deep experience across FinOps and cloud security, including veterans from Tenable and Ermetic.

For more information, visit www.adaptive6.com.

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