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Cerebrium AI

About Cerebrium AI

A South African AI infrastructure startup focused on meeting enterprise demand and expanding its platform. Cerebrium AI provides a serverless cloud infrastructure that simplifies the building and deployment of AI applications, enabling companies to scale their AI capabilities efficiently.

Business Information
Target Customers
enterprise developers data scientists
Industry Categories
Cloud & Infrastructure AI, ML, Gen AI DevOps, APIs, Developer Tools
Business Model
Revenue Model SaaS
Pricing Strategy Usage-based pricing
Sales Channels direct, partnerships
Funding Timeline
Round Date Amount Investors
Seed Jul 08, 2025 $8.5M GradientVC, ycombinator
Founders
J
Jonathan Irwin

Co-founder & CTO

M
Michael Louis

Founder & CEO

Investors
G
GradientVC

Venture Capital

y
ycombinator

Venture Capital

Recent Mentions
technextdotng
Technext @technextdotng
Jul 08, 2025

-@cerebriumai, a South African AI infrastructure startup, raised $8.5 million in seed funding led by @GradientVC. The startup plans to use the capital to meet growing enterprise demand and expand its platform. https://t.co/TqF2BY38eS

menlotimes
Menlo Times @menlotimes
Jul 09, 2025

Serverless AI Infrastructure Platform @cerebriumai Raises $8.5 Million in Seed Round. Founded by Michael Louis @MichaelLouis_za (CEO) and Jonathan Irwin @jonoirwin (CTO), Cerebrium raised $8.5 million in a seed round led by @GradientVC, with participation from @ycombinator, https://t.co/zFNjTfS2TH

TechCabal
TechCabal @TechCabal
Jul 09, 2025

Cerebrium, a South African-born startup that helps developers run AI apps without worrying about the tech setup, has raised an $8.5 million seed round to hire more engineers, grow the core platform, and scale operations to meet rising enterprise demand. https://t.co/1x3nWlGf4Q