By futureTEKnow | Editorial Team
Cerebrium, a serverless AI infrastructure platform that originated in Cape Town and is now based in New York, has just secured $8.5 million in seed funding. The round, led by Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI venture arm) along with major backing from Y Combinator and Authentic Ventures, highlights a major vote of confidence in Cerebrium’s unique approach to powering real-time, multimodal AI applications.
“Tooling was fragmented, there was an education gap between theory and production, the unit economics didn’t make sense, and development cycles took months. We built Cerebrium so engineers can focus on building AI products that users love with real business impact, instead of hiring an infrastructure team, racking up six-figure cloud bills or worrying about security and compliance,”
- explained co-founder Michael Louis.
Founders Michael Louis and Jonathan Irwin created Cerebrium after facing multiple hurdles in building their own AI products. Fragmented tooling, slow development cycles, and unsustainable cloud costs pushed the team to rethink what AI infrastructure should be. Their result: a high-performance, serverless platform that allows engineering teams to easily build, scale, and deploy AI models for text, voice, image, and video—with no need to manage underlying hardware or wrangle costly DevOps setups.
What sets Cerebrium apart is its serverless architecture, which eliminates traditional provisioning bottlenecks. Customers get instant access to on-demand CPU and GPU resources, only paying for compute time actually used. This flexibility is especially valuable for projects with spiky workloads, like real-time avatars, intelligent voice assistants, and healthcare AI.
The company already generates millions in annual recurring revenue with a compact team of just four engineers, powering workloads for innovative clients such as Tavus (personalized video) and Deepgram (voice AI). According to Gradient Ventures’ Eylul Kayin, “specialized infrastructure that scales elastically will be essential as real-time AI becomes core to customer experiences”.
With this fresh injection of $8.5 million, Cerebrium aims to invest in new features and continue meeting the surging demand from enterprise customers looking for high-performance AI without the DevOps headaches.
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