Dutch-based Yasu, an AI startup building autonomous agents to prevent cloud waste,
has raised €850,000 in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Akka, with
participation from Empower Impact and earlier investment from Antler.
Founded
in 2025, Yasu is developing an AI Cloud Engineer designed to bring cloud cost visibility into the development process and prevent waste before it occurs.
This
addresses a major challenge in the €1.6 trillion global cloud infrastructure
market, where an estimated €512 billion is lost annually due to
misconfiguration, inefficiency and complexity. The issue has grown with the
rise of generative AI workloads, which have led to average cloud spending
increases of 30 percent, and 72 per cent of IT and finance leaders now
describing GenAI-related costs as unmanageable.
Since
launching in April 2025, Yasu has delivered average cost savings of 35 per cent for its customers and is managing €3.9 million in cloud spend across companies, including alpha.One, TRaiCE and Smiler.
Commenting
on the problem, Vikram Das Ambar, Co-founder and CEO of Yasu, explains that he
saw companies value the flexibility of the cloud while suspecting they were
overspending, a concern now supported by data showing that nearly one-third of
all cloud spending is wasted.
Current
tools only detect problems after deployment, when fixes are ten times more
expensive. Yasu shifts cost visibility into development, where our AI agents
prevent waste before it happens. We are building an AI cloud engineer for every
team, not just another monitoring platform. This funding accelerates that
vision across Europe.
The new investment will be used to expand Yasu’s go-to-market across key European markets, advance its agentic AI capabilities and
further develop its autonomous optimisation platform.