Cerebrium Raises $8.5M led by Gradient to Scale the Leading High-Performance Serverless AI Platform

Cerebrium, a serverless AI infrastructure platform, has secured an $8.5 million seed funding round led by Gradient, with participation from Y Combinator, Authentic Ventures, and several strategic investors, to meet growing enterprise demand and accelerate its platform development. Founded by Michael Louis and Jonathan Irwin, Cerebrium addresses challenges in AI development by enabling teams to build and scale multimodal AI applications such as real-time voice agents, LLM fine-tuning, and video models without the traditional complexity or cost associated with infrastructure management. Known for its serverless GPU infrastructure, the platform supports batching, multi-region deployments, and large-scale data processing, allowing teams to handle compute-intensive workloads efficiently while adhering to strict security standards. With headquarters in New York City and origins in Cape Town, South Africa, Cerebrium powers innovative companies like Tavus and Deepgram and aims to become a core infrastructure component as real-time AI becomes integral to customer experiences.