Cerebrium
Category: AI Infrastructure
A serverless AI infrastructure platform for deploying and scaling AI applications. Cerebrium was founded in 2021. The company is led by Michael Louis. Based in New York, USA (Headquarters), Cape Town, South Africa (Founding). Team size: 10-30. Total funding raised: $8.5 million. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include Gradient Ventures, Y Combinator, Authentic Ventures.
- Founded
- 2021
- Headquarters
- New York, USA (Headquarters), Cape Town, South Africa (Founding)
- Team size
- 10-30
- Total funding
- $8.5 million
Value proposition
Simplifies AI deployment with serverless infrastructure, offering fast, scalable, and cost-effective solutions by charging only for compute time used.
Products and solutions
Serverless GPU/CPU infrastructure, Model deployment and inference APIs, Support for multimodal AI (text, image, audio)
Unique value
Specialized serverless infrastructure for volatile and real-time multimodal AI workloads, abstracting away orchestration and observability.
Target customer
Engineering teams and companies needing to deploy and scale AI models without managing complex infrastructure.
Industries served
General AI Applications, Voice AI, Digital Avatars, Healthcare AI
Technology advantage
Pay-per-second billing model reduces costs, rapid spin-up/down of resources, and simplifies deployment globally for low-latency applications.
How they differentiate
Focus on extreme elasticity for volatile real-time workloads (like voice bots), pay-for-exact-runtime pricing, and ease of global deployment for multimodal applications.
Main competitors
Modal, RunPod, Banana.dev
Key partnerships
Tavus, Deepgram, Vapi, Daily, Decart AI
Notable customers
Tavus, Deepgram, Vapi
Major milestones
Graduated from Y Combinator (S23) Secured $8.5M seed funding led by Google's Gradient Ventures Launched production-ready platform supporting notable clients
Growth metrics
Generating millions in annual revenue.
Market positioning
Positioned as a highly cost-effective and developer-friendly serverless platform for startups and teams building cutting-edge, real-time AI applications.
Geographic focus
Global
Patents and IP
N/A
About Michael Louis
Michael Louis is a seasoned entrepreneur with a background in building and scaling technology companies. Prior to co-founding Cerebrium, he was the co-founder of Sxuirrel, a student-focused marketplace. He has a strong technical foundation with a degree in Mechatronic Engineering from Stellenbosch University, which has been instrumental in his leadership at Cerebrium, a serverless AI infrastructure platform. His experience is further validated by Cerebrium's acceptance into the prestigious Y Combinator accelerator program (W22 batch).
Official website: https://www.cerebrium.ai