Montreal-based JetScale has closed an oversubscribed $5.4 million seed funding round to tackle the skyrocketing costs of cloud infrastructure. The round was co-led by the BDC Seed Venture Fund and Diagram ClimateTech Fund, with participation from Telegraph Ventures and Fondaction.
The big picture: The rapid surge in heavy compute workloads has made cloud spending one of the largest budget items for modern enterprises. However, optimizing these costs traditionally requires weeks of manual audits by specialized experts. JetScale provides an automated control layer that delivers instant diagnostics and remediation plans, turning a specialized engineering burden into a routine task for any IT team.
How it works:
- Automated FinOps: Replaces fragmented, manual cloud cost analysis with a scalable platform that identifies overprovisioned resources in minutes.
- Environmental Impact: Directly links cost savings to sustainability by reducing the energy waste associated with underutilized or inefficient data center infrastructure.
- Rapid Deployment: Provides clear action plans and easy-to-implement fixes that drive immediate ROI for large-scale infrastructures.
The catch: JetScale’s dual promise of “cost savings” and “climate impact” is a savvy marketing angle, but its success depends on its ability to stay ahead of the native optimization tools offered by the cloud giants themselves. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have every incentive to offer their own “right-sizing” features to keep customers within their ecosystems. Furthermore, as seen in the broader autonomous engineering landscape, the challenge with automated infrastructure changes is trust; if an automated remediation plan inadvertently causes a production outage in a high-traffic environment, the “bottom-line savings” are quickly erased by downtime costs. JetScale must prove that its autonomous control layer is stable enough to manage mission-critical infrastructure at global scale without human “babysitting.”
Key Details
- Funding: $5.4M (Seed)
- Lead: BDC Seed Venture Fund, Diagram ClimateTech Fund
- CEO: Mehdi Merai
- Sector: Cloud Infrastructure / FinOps
