Spot.io
The cloud-cost platform NetApp acquired for $450M.
Spot.io, formerly Spotinst, is the cloud-cost platform NetApp acquired for $450 million, and Eyal Gantz worked on it as a founding-team engineer. Cloud bills are opaque and compute is the biggest line item, so engineering teams needed one real-time view across AWS, Azure, and GCP: accurate enough to act on and fast enough to trust before any optimization engine could safely decide on their behalf. Gantz built the data layer that made that possible. He wrote the live multi-cloud dashboards and the API integrations with AWS, Azure, and GCP that surfaced infrastructure spend and infrastructure state as it changed, in JavaScript against the cloud providers' REST APIs. That foundation is what the continuous-optimization engine ran on. Between 2015 and 2020 the product grew into a category-defining FinOps platform, and the company exited to NetApp, listed on the NASDAQ as NTAP, for $450 million.
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What problem did Spot.io have?
Cloud bills are opaque and compute is the biggest line item. Teams needed a single real-time view across AWS, Azure, and GCP (accurate enough to act on and fast enough to trust) before any optimization engine could safely decide on their behalf.
How did Eyal solve it?
As part of the founding team, I built the live cloud dashboards and the multi-cloud API integrations that surfaced spend and infrastructure state in real time. That foundation grew into a category-defining FinOps platform and a $450M NetApp exit.