Cerebrium, the serverless artificial intelligence (AI) platform founded in Cape Town and now headquartered in New York City, has raised $8.5 million in seed funding to expand its infrastructure and meet growing enterprise demand.
The funding round was led by Google’s venture firm Gradient, with participation from Y Combinator, Authentic Ventures, and a number of strategic angels and operators.
Cerebium enables teams to build and scale multimodal AI applications without the complexity of managing infrastructure. With this funding, the company plans to drive product development and expand its platform capabilities.
“We built Cerebrium so engineers can focus on building AI products users love that have real business impact instead of hiring an infrastructure team, racking up six-figure cloud bills or worrying about security and compliance,” said Michael Louis, CEO and co-founder of Cerebrium.
Known for its serverless GPU infrastructure, the platform supports features such as batching, multi-region deployments, and large-scale data processing. It enables teams to run compute-intensive workloads with minimal setup, scale easily, and only pay for what they use, while complying with strict security and data residency requirements.
“What the Cerebrium team has pulled off with such a small group is incredible. They’re powering some of the most advanced AI voice and video applications at scale and we believe specialised infrastructure which scales elastically will be essential as real-time AI becomes core to customer experiences,” concluded Eylul Kayin, Partner at Gradient.
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