About Kos
Kos is the finance hire for the companies building America’s physical infrastructure. Here’s why we built it, who built it, and who backs it.
Kos sits on the finance team as a new hire, reporting to the CFO, alongside the controller and project controls.
We built Kos because the finance teams behind America’s reindustrialization are talented, overwhelmed, and can’t hire their way out.
Every CFO we spoke to described the same problem: 800-page pay apps, thousand-page contracts, work piling up on weekends, and a talent pool too small to meet the moment.
The back office of the buildout is the bottleneck. So we built the hire it can’t find: a finance employee you hire once, who reads every page and works where your team already works.
Our Founders
Tanuj built his career in IT, data centers and industrials, the world Kos serves. Mani built AI systems at Microsoft Research. They met at Stanford.
Co-founder & CEO
Tanuj and Mani met at Stanford under Sachin Katti.
Co-founder & CTO
Tanuj and Mani met at Stanford under Sachin Katti.
Our Shareholders
Finance and infrastructure leaders who have lived the problem Kos takes on.
Former CFO, Equinix
Keith Taylor spent 27 years at Equinix, the global data center company, 20 of them as CFO. He joined in 1999 and ran its finances from venture-backed startup through IPO to more than $9 billion in annualized revenue. He retired as CFO in 2026.
Kos shareholder
Heather Paduck has more than 25 years in finance, most recently as a CFO in data centers and AI infrastructure. She has led capital raising, accounting and financial strategy for a hyperscale data center developer, and was earlier CFO of two real estate investment firms. She began her career auditing real estate companies at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Former CFO, Crusoe
Matt DeNezza was CFO of Crusoe from 2020 to 2025, as it grew from flare-gas computing into large AI data center campuses. He was earlier CFO of Eclipse Resources, which he helped take public in 2014, and of Meritage Midstream, after more than a decade as an energy investment banker at Deutsche Bank.
Head of Industrial Compute, OpenAI
Sachin Katti leads industrial compute at OpenAI, the infrastructure that trains and runs its models. He was previously chief technology and AI officer at Intel. He joined Stanford’s electrical engineering and computer science faculty in 2010 and co-founded two networking startups, including Uhana, which VMware acquired.
Former Audit Lead for Equinix, PwC
Manoj Jain is a CPA and a former audit lead for Equinix at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he audited the books of the global data center company.
Co-founder and former CEO, CyrusOne
David Ferdman co-founded CyrusOne, the data center company, in 2000 and was its CEO until 2010, when Cincinnati Bell bought it for $525 million. He returned as interim CEO in 2021 and led its $15 billion sale to KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners. He is now president of Primary Digital Infrastructure, which finances data centers.
Investors
Kos raised a $12M seed led by 8VC and XYZ Venture Capital, with MVP Ventures.
Contact
Questions about Kos, or a pay app you’d like it to read? Write to us.
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