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Brainboard

YC W22

New York City, US · Founded 2020 · 9 employees · 3 known investors

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Brainboard is a cloud infrastructure management platform that provides a unified workspace for designing and managing infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Scaleway. It integrates with Terraform and Git-based workflows to automate infrastructure provisioning, compliance scanning, and cost optimization.

Also known as Brainboard.co

Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareDevOpsInfrastructureUnited States of AmericaFranceAmerica / CanadaEuropeFully Remote

Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W22)

Brainboard was founded in 2020 by Chafik Belhaoues and Jeremy Albinet.

CBChafik Belhaoues
Chafik BelhaouesFounderChafik Belhaoues is an infrastructure engineer with over 15 years of experience in site reliability engineering, cloud architecture, and software development. He previously served as CTO at Scaleway, a French cloud provider, and now leads Brainboard.
JAJeremy Albinet
Jeremy AlbinetFounder & CTOJeremy Albinet spent 10 years designing cloud architectures and infrastructure before co-founding Brainboard; he previously worked as a site reliability engineer at Scaleway.
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Stephane BoghossianGrowth Product Managerformer

Investors · 3

Moonfire Ventureslisted by Moonfire VenturesLondon

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Y Combinatorlisted by Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K

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Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Brainboard is a developer tools and DevOps company offering an end-to-end, collaborative solution that lets engineers visually design and manage cloud infrastructures. The product is positioned to reduce the learning curve for teams adopting infrastructure as code (IaC), to enable a self-serve model for infrastructure provisioning, and to provide a service catalog so that teams can reuse existing infrastructure components rather than rebuilding them.

The company was founded in 2020 and participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch, where its primary partner was Nicolas Dessaigne. It operates in the developer tools, DevOps, cloud computing and infrastructure categories, with a listed team size of nine.

Founding story

Brainboard was founded in 2020 by Chafik Belhaoues and Jeremy Albinet, two technical founders with a combined 25+ years of experience who had previously worked together at the French cloud provider Scaleway. Belhaoues, an engineer with 17 years of infrastructure experience spanning SRE, cloud architecture and software development, was formerly CTO of Scaleway and serves as CEO of Brainboard; Albinet, a former Scaleway SRE with 10 years of experience designing cloud architectures and building infrastructures, is co-founder and CTO.

▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history

Market position

A Y Combinator-backed (Winter 2022) company in the developer tools, DevOps, cloud computing and infrastructure segments.

Technology

A visual, collaborative interface for designing and managing cloud infrastructures, supporting infrastructure-as-code adoption, self-service provisioning and a reusable service catalog.

Go-to-market

Engineering teams and companies moving to infrastructure as code that need to design, manage and standardize cloud infrastructure.

Geography

Listed location: New York City, New York, United States; the founders previously worked together at a French cloud provider.

History

Founded in 2020, Brainboard joined Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch and is listed as an active company with a team of nine.

Compiled by commissioned research from 2 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Team sizeJan 20229 employees

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

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Timeline · 1

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2022
Participated in Y Combinator Winter 2022 batch

Brainboard was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch, with Nicolas Dessaigne as primary partner.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

Legal entities · 1

corporate structure
Brainboard, Inc.

▸Research sources · 2

primary sources listed

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Frequently asked questions

What does Brainboard do?
Brainboard is a collaborative platform for engineers to visually design and manage cloud infrastructure as code.
Who founded Brainboard?
Brainboard was founded by Chafik Belhaoues, Jeremy Albinet in 2020.
Who are Brainboard's investors?
Brainboard's investors include Kima Ventures, Moonfire Ventures, Y Combinator.
Where is Brainboard headquartered?
Brainboard is headquartered in New York City, US.