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Vantage raises $21M

Vantage, a company providing a FinOps platform that assists teams in managing and optimizing their cloud expenses, has secured $21 million in Series A funding.

Vantage’s funding round was headed by Scale Venture Partners, and included contributions from Andreessen Horowitz, Harpoon Ventures, and Matthew Prince, the CEO and co-founder of Cloudflare.

Ariel Tseitlin, a partner at Scale Venture Partners, will join the Vantage board of directors.

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