Upbound vs Infracost
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Upbound is the creator and primary maintainer of Crossplane, the CNCF-graduated open-source universal control plane for cloud-native infrastructure; raised $69M total including a $60M Series B; backed by GV (Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, and
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Upbound is a cloud infrastructure company founded in 2017 by Bassam Tabbara and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The company created and is the primary steward of Crossplane — an open-source project that extends Kubernetes to become a universal control plane for managing cloud infrastructure, services, and custom APIs across any cloud provider. Crossplane enables platform engineering teams to define, provision, and manage cloud resources (databases, object storage, virtual networks, AI services) using Kubernetes-native APIs and GitOps workflows, regardless of whether the underlying infrastructure is on AWS, Azure, GCP, or private cloud. In November 2025, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that Crossplane had officially graduated — achieving the foundation''s highest project maturity level alongside projects like Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy.
SF cloud infrastructure cost management for engineers showing AWS/GCP costs in pull requests before deployment; YC W21 $17.2M at 3,500 companies including 10% of Fortune 500 competing with CloudHealth for FinOps.
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Infracost is a San Francisco-based cloud cost management platform — backed by Y Combinator (W21) with $17.2 million raised including a $15 million Series A led by Pruven Capital with Insight Partners in November 2025 — providing engineers with real-time infrastructure cost visibility during the development workflow, surfacing estimated cloud costs directly in pull requests before code is merged to production. Serving 3,500+ companies including 10% of the Fortune 500, Infracost integrates with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code workflows to calculate and display the monthly cost impact of infrastructure changes at the point in the workflow where engineers can still make cost-aware decisions.
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