Yuki, a data cost optimisation startup, has come out of stealth after raising $6 million in a Seed funding round, as businesses struggle to manage and control data and AI workloads that were not built for real-time oversight.
The funding round was led by Hyperwise Ventures, with support from VelocitX, Tal Ventures, and Fresh. fund, and Yakir Daniel, the founder of Spot.io, a cloud cost optimisation company that was later acquired by NetApp and is now part of Flexera.
“After building Spot, it was easy for me to recognize the pain point Yuki is solving. They’re building the control layer for data cost optimization just as AI is turning data spend into a board-level issue,” said Yakir Daniel, co-founder of Spot.io (acquired by NetApp and now part of Flexera), who joined Yuki’s seed round and gave his vote of confidence to the team.
Yuki’s main product is Yuki Fabric, an AI-powered system that helps companies monitor and control their data usage from one central place.
It connects with data platforms like Snowflake, Google BigQuery, and Iceberg-based data lakes, acting as a single control layer for modern data systems and helping businesses manage costs and operations more efficiently.
“Data is the only resource in an organization that no one truly manages. We know how to store it, but not how to govern it. There are budgets, cloud infrastructure, and teams, but the data itself has no control system,” says Ido Arieli Noga, CEO of Yuki. “For years, the default response to growth was to burn more money on the same one-size-fits-all infrastructure. That model is fundamentally broken, and it doesn’t scale in an AI-driven world. Yuki was built to become the control layer that makes data infrastructure workload-aware and governed in real time. In the age of AI, this becomes even more critical. Teams are constantly running experiments, models, and new workloads, and many organizations are discovering they’re paying enormous sums for data and compute resources that no one is using anymore, simply because no one took the time to manage and clean them up.”
According to Noga, when data systems are smart enough to understand workloads and are managed by an intelligent control layer, cost savings happen naturally instead of needing constant manual effort. In 2025, companies using Yuki’s platform saved an average of around 42.6% on data costs, which can mean millions of dollars in savings for large enterprises.
Yuki is quick and easy to set up and does not require any changes to existing code or queries. Its AI platform manages tasks in real time, clearly separating important business work from lower-priority internal jobs. Based on current system conditions, Yuki automatically sends each query to the most efficient computing resource available, helping reduce costs as data usage and AI-driven workloads continue to grow.
The cloud management tools market is worth about $9.8 billion and has over 200 vendors. It is expected to keep growing as companies handle more data and move toward unified data platforms. Businesses face challenges like changing workloads, heavy query usage, and rising compute costs, which is why there is a growing need for smart automation and real-time cost optimisation.
Yuki’s customers include cybersecurity companies like Tenable and data-heavy media companies such as Angel Studios. These organisations choose Yuki to cut data costs, simplify operations, and gain better control over their data systems, especially when running large data and AI workloads.
Yuki was founded in 2025 by Ido Arieli Noga (CEO) and Amir Peres (CTO). The two have known each other since childhood and had worked together on projects in the past. After spending many years on different career paths, they later discovered they were both working in the data and technology space.
When they teamed up again, they noticed a common problem faced by many companies: data systems were costly and inefficient, especially as workloads changed and too many queries were issued. Their research showed there was no proper control system for managing data usage, which inspired them to create Yuki to solve this problem.
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