When Michael Louis and Jonathan Irwin were building AI capabilities at their last startup, OneCart, they faced a familiar challenge: provisioning GPU resources, managing inference workloads, and scaling models reliably across environments took more time and capital than expected. The duo, who served as CTO and lead engineer at the South African e-commerce company, saw an opportunity to abstract away these infrastructure burdens for other engineering teams.
That idea became Cerebrium, a serverless AI infrastructure platform that has quickly found traction among developers building real-time, multimodal applications. On Tuesday, the company announced it raised $8.5 million in seed funding, led by Gradient Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Authentic Ventures, and several stra
Cerebrium’s Path From Cape Town to YC and $8.5M in Funding
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We know that AI is changing the world, and we want Cerebrium, a South African founded company, to be the platform powering it.
