Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
Kion, formerly cloudtamer.io and operated by Nor Labs, is a Columbia, Maryland-based cloud operations software company. It helps regulated enterprises, government agencies, and higher-education organizations automate governance, identity, compliance, and financial management across multicloud environments.
Primary product
Kion FinOps+ / CloudOps platform: a self-hosted, policy-driven platform for multicloud governance, identity, compliance, cost management, automation, AI-driven insights, and cloud financial operations.
Founded
2018
Headquarters
6811 Benjamin Franklin Drive, Suite 170, Columbia, Maryland 21046, United States
Team size
40-50
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Cloud operations, FinOps, cloud governance, and enterprise infrastructure management software
Offices
Business model
Stage
Series A / growth-stage private company
Total raised
$11.5M
Latest round
Series A · Oct 2021
Latest amount
$9.5M
Oct 2021 · Blue Heron Capital and TDF Ventures
Dec 2018
Leadership
Brian Wilson
Chief Executive Officer
Brian Price
Founder and Chief Product Officer
John Lynch
Chief Operating Officer
Casey Cover
Head of People Operations
Randy Shore
Chief Customer Officer
Scott Mitchell
SVP Sales
Patrick Loring
SVP Marketing
Justin Bartinoski
SVP Marketing
Ruchira Agrawal
SVP Engineering
Founders
Joseph Spurrier
Co-Founder; previously Chief Technology Officer
Kion describes itself as remote-first, customer-centered, inclusive, and built around ownership, trust, accountability, collaboration, and meaningful work. It supports employees across 21 U.S. states and maintains its Columbia-area headquarters as an optional flexible workspace. The company emphasizes structured remote engagement, professional development, open communication, and customer outcomes.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
Public materials indicate stock options for every employee, career progression and pay practices, education reimbursement, and competitive benefits. No reliable public salary bands or definitive visa-sponsorship policy were found.
Benefits
Pricing
Custom enterprise pricing; public evidence points to demo- and sales-led purchasing rather than published self-service pricing.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M, with one third-party company profile estimating approximately $4.1M annually and another estimating $5M-$25M. These are third-party estimates, not company-reported financials.
Estimated monthly visits
12.8K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Kion · Jun 2026
Kion announced version 3.16, adding native Anthropic token-spend visibility, automated governance controls, and more detailed SKU-meter reporting. The announcement also identified BeyondTrust as a new customer and highlighted Kion's presence at FinOps X and AWS Summit Washington, D.C.
Kion · Mar 2026
Kion reported increased adoption of its AI-driven FinOps+ platform and cited IDC research claiming that Kion grew faster than the overall market and twice as fast as the top eight vendors in 2025. The company also highlighted new regulated-industry customers and industry recognition.
Kion · Feb 2026
Kion announced version 3.15 and Lux, an embedded AI agent intended to provide context-aware insights, guided actions, and automation for FinOps users.
Kion · Nov 2025
Kion announced availability through AWS Marketplace for U.S. Department of Defense Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability customers, lowering procurement friction for multicloud governance and operations.
Kion · Oct 2025
Brian Wilson became CEO, succeeding founder Brian Price. Price remained with Kion as Chief Product Officer, focused on product vision and innovation.
1 job at Kion