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The Story
Founded by three people – Shaun Webber, Symon Thurlow, and Jay Strydom – who couldn't stand watching companies lose money and time to inefficient cloud setups. What started as a "surely there's a better way" moment turned into Spotto, the AI-native platform that finds and (soon) fixes optimisation opportunities before it hurts margins, while also reducing engineering effort. Spotto helps SaaS companies optimize the top 3 Cost to Serve line items – cloud licensing, support and tooling. Stop burning money in the cloud by continuously optimising cloud while also improving performance, availability and security posture.
The Numbers
A tight crew of 8 and growing
Early customers across NZ, heading into the US next year
Based in Browns Bay, Auckland (right next to the beach!)
Making finance teams love engineers, one cloud dollar at a time
Plot Twist
People think they're a monitoring tool. They're not – they're a money-saving machine. Think less "is it working?" and more "how much did we just save?" They’re also building features to surface cost to serve by product\customer\feature! Imagine that!
The Good Stuff
They work from a lovely office (that's subjective) right next to Browns Bay beach – perfect for a swim at lunchtime. Assuming you work from the office. Which hardly anyone does. But the possibilities! With frequent sightings in cafes, airport lounges, and the occasional Microsoft/AWS office, they're on a mission to make finance teams love engineers by saving cloud dollars and lifting gross margin.
You run a SaaS company and your cloud bill looks like a bad surprise party every month? Hit up Spotto.