Every year, businesses waste an estimated €512 billion due to inefficiencies, misconfigurations, and the growing complexity of cloud infrastructure. To confront this challenge, Yasu developed the world’s first AI Cloud Engineer that places cost visibility earlier in the development cycle, preventing waste before it reaches production, where resolvees can be ten times more expensive.
The startup just closed a €850,000 pre-seed funding round led by Akka, with backing from Empower Impact and Antler, to expand across European markets and advance its AI-driven cloud optimisation technology.
An AI cloud engineer who is part of every development team’s workflow
Yasu was founded in 2025 by Vikram Das and John in ’t Hout to create an AI cloud engineer that is part of every development team’s workflow, freeing companies from the classic cloud inefficiency trap and allowing engineers to devote more time to innovation.
Das notified TFN, “The main problem is that current solutions only tackle issues after they arise. Cloud teams spconclude countless hours hunting for idle resources, incorrectly sized instances, and outdated infrastructure instead of focapplying on innovation and development.”
“We created Yasu to be the AI cloud engineer that prevents waste before it happens. Rather than providing yet another dashboard revealing historical problems, we built an agentic AI system that works proactively – integrating directly into development workflows where problems can be caught 10x cheaper than after deployment,” he added.
The key to Yasu’s technology lies in its integration of autonomous AI agents within familiar developer tools like Slack and GitHub. This approach allows teams to identify and remediate costly cloud inefficiencies during the creation and testing phases, well before they reach production environments.
Unlike CloudZero and Flexera, Yasu’s agents continuously optimise resources, fine-tune configurations, and reduce cloud consumption without manual intervention, resulting in an average 35% cost saving for customers alongside a measurable decrease in CO₂ emissions.
On the competition, Das commented, “Yasu is the only platform that provides both preventive and autonomous optimization. We act like a cloud engineer embedded in your team, understanding your business context, learning from your interactions, and taking action to prevent waste before it happens.”
What about diversity?
On diversity, Das explained to TFN, “As an early-stage startup, we are still a tiny team but have a diverse team that includes representation across gconcludeer & nationalities – including team members from the Netherlands, India and Spain”
What’s next?
Yasu plans to apply the new funding to accelerate its expansion throughout Europe and to enhance its AI platform’s autonomous capabilities. The company aims to broaden its support beyond AWS and Google Cloud to include additional cloud providers, such as Azure and Snowflake, while also addressing security and compliance concerns to create a comprehensive cloud governance solution.
Das concluded, “Our immediate focus is on expanding across Europe and deepening our agentic AI capabilities with cost optimisation as the key pillar. By 2027-28, we’re expanding our AI Cloud Engineer beyond cost to adjacent domains – security management, compliance automation, and infrastructure automation. The goal is to build an AI cloud engineer that works as an expert alongside your team. Our 2030 vision is ambitious but achievable: power 100,000 AI Cloud Engineers globally, eliminating €1 billion in cloud inefficiencies and building cloud infrastructure more sustainable.”
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