Cerebrium’s Path From Cape Town to YC and $8.5M in Funding

We know that AI is changing the world, and we want Cerebrium, a South African founded company, to be the platform powering it.
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,
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Anshika Mathews
Anshika is the Senior Content Strategist for AIM Research. She holds a keen interest in technology and related policy-making and its impact on society. She can be reached at anshika.mathews@aimresearch.co
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