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  "id": 15439644,
  "title": "The future of cloud spend is intelligent",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/18/the-future-of-cloud-spend-is-intelligent",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-18T16:00:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TechCrunch",
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    "url": "https://north.cloud/newsroom/north-series-b-release"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "New York, October 15, 2026 - FinOps platform North.cloud has raised $60 million in Series B funding led by PeakSpan Capital. The company's goal is to streamline cloud, AI, and data spend management through automation and AI. North's platform handles optimization automatically, integrating with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. It also now supports AI spend management through token tracking, budgets, and financial controls. With nearly $2 billion in managed cloud spend, North has helped customers save over $400 million while maintaining a 98.8% retention rate. CEO Matt Biringer emphasizes that FinOps should be a business problem, not an engineering one, and that North provides the necessary fintech platform for this shift.",
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        "title": "The future of cloud spend is intelligent",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/17/the-future-of-cloud-spend-is-intelligent",
        "published": "2026-10-17T15:00:11.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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