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Schaechter is building cloud cost tooling for engineering teams that need allocation and waste detection without waiting on a separate FinOps bureaucracy.
Ben Schaechter is co-founder and chief executive of Vantage, a New York, New York, cloud cost management company. He founded Vantage in 2020 with Brooke McKim after product roles at DigitalOcean and Amazon Web Services.
Leading Product Work at DigitalOcean
Vantage describes Schaechter and McKim as former product leaders at DigitalOcean and Amazon Web Services who saw how hard it was for engineering teams to understand cloud spend across accounts, Kubernetes, and SaaS. That experience shaped a product aimed at developers and finance together rather than finance-only dashboards.
Starting Vantage in New York in 2020
They founded Vantage in New York City in 2020 as an independent cloud cost platform. The company reports more than $25 million in funding and a distributed U.S. team with experience from AWS, Stripe, and GitHub. Schaechter also writes on FinOps for the Forbes Technology Council.
Extending Cost Visibility into AI Tokens
As customers adopted large language model APIs, Vantage expanded from classic cloud bills into token cost allocation and other AI spend views. Convincing teams to trust another cost layer while AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud each ship native billing tools remains the competitive hard turn.
Personal Life
Schaechter works with Vantage from New York. Public profiles emphasize cloud cost transparency for engineering teams more than private hobbies.
