Akash Khanolkar is a Co-Founder of Octane, a drop-in metered billing system that gives businesses the flexibility to bill how they want.

The Cloud has transformed the way software is built, marketed and sold.  With powerful infrastructure at our fingertips, it’s never been easier to create and launch a successful software product. And yet, despite the fact that customers have come to expect a usage-based model, cloud developers are forced to reinvent metering, pricing and billing for every new application.

The complexity of becoming usage-based is stifling innovation in the cloud. At Octane we’re on a mission to become the cloud standard for usage-based monetization, freeing developers to focus on building the next generation of software.

Octane’s usage-based monetization platform automates away the complexities of metering, pricing, and billing, while offering developers flexibility in how they design their monetization model.. Octane customers can publish usage events using modern APIs, reliably bill their customers based on flexible usage aggregation models,  design and test new and custom pricing plans, and provide customers with detailed insights into usage and spend. Everything the ‘cloud giants’ can do is now available to everyone.

Octane was founded by engineers from Google and Facebook, and is backed by high-profile VCs.