Cerebrium
YC W22New York City, US · Founded 2021 · 4 employees · 4 known investors
Cerebrium provides a cloud platform for deploying and operating AI applications, including real-time voice bots and large-scale inference pipelines, abstracting infrastructure complexity for teams building AI products.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMachine LearningInfrastructureAIUnited States of AmericaAmerica / CanadaPartly Remote
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W22)
Cerebrium was founded in 2021 by Michael Louis and Jonathan Irwin.
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Michael Louisin𝕏Co-Founder & CEOMichael Louis is a South African entrepreneur who held the CTO role at OneCart before its acquisition by Walmart and Massmart. He currently co-founded Cerebrium, a machine learning platform focused on model training, deployment, and production monitoring for businesses.
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Jonathan Irwinin𝕏Co-Founder & CTOJonathan Irwin is a co-founder and CTO at Cerebrium with over eight years of software development experience, including prior work as a lead developer. He holds undergraduate degrees in Commerce and Finance Honours from the University of Cape Town and studied Data Science at Tilburg University.
Investors · 4
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$8.5M disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2025
- $8.5MraisedJul 2025 · 3 sources
Gradient (lead)
Source ↗ - Undisclosed amountSeedJul 2025
Gradient (lead)
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Competitors · 7
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Hugging Face37 shared keywordsHugging Face is a collaboration platform that hosts and provides access to machine learning models, datasets, and applications. It offers both open-source tools for the ML community and paid compute and enterprise solutions for teams building AI applications.
Runpod35 shared keywordsRunpod is an AI developer cloud that provides on-demand GPU infrastructure for experimenting with, training, fine-tuning, deploying, and scaling machine learning models. It offers autoscaling serverless GPU endpoints, persistent GPU pods, and multi-GPU clusters for AI developers and teams running inference and training workloads.
Vast.AI GPU compute cloud32 shared keywordsVast.ai operates a marketplace for on-demand GPU compute, offering pricing set by supply and demand across 20,000+ GPUs and 40+ data centers with API, CLI, and Python SDK access. It provides GPU Cloud instances, serverless inference endpoints, and dedicated multi-node clusters for developers and AI teams running training, inference, fine-tuning, and rendering workloads.
Spheron31 shared keywordsSpheron operates a GPU cloud marketplace that aggregates compute capacity from certified data centers worldwide, offering NVIDIA GPUs (H100, H200, B200, A100) at 40-60% below hyperscaler pricing. The platform serves AI training teams and ML builders with on-demand GPU instances, reserved capacity, and custom cluster sourcing across multiple providers through a single dashboard.
Thunder Compute23 shared keywordsThunder Compute develops GPU virtualization software that improves utilization of graphics processing units in data centers. The company targets cloud providers and enterprises seeking to increase computational capacity without additional hardware investment.
OpenAI22 shared keywordsOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company focused on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) with emphasis on safety and beneficial outcomes for humanity.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Cerebrium do?
- Cerebrium provides a cloud platform for deploying and operating AI applications, including real-time voice bots and large-scale inference pipelines, abstracting infrastructure complexity for teams building AI products.
- Who founded Cerebrium?
- Cerebrium was founded by Michael Louis, Jonathan Irwin in 2021.
- Who are Cerebrium's investors?
- Cerebrium's investors include AUTHENTIC VENTURES, Depth Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Y Combinator.
- How much funding has Cerebrium raised?
- Cerebrium has disclosed $8.5M raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.
- Where is Cerebrium headquartered?
- Cerebrium is headquartered in New York City, US.