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Cerebrium is enabling businesses to build and deploy ML products quickly and easily. Creating a AWS Sagemaker alternative.

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Total raised
$9M
disclosed
Last round
$8.5M
Seed
Rounds
2
since 2021
Investors
3
on record
Employees
2-10

About Cerebrium

Cerebrium is a platform to deploy machine learning models to serverless GPUs with sub-5 second cold-start times. Customers typically experience 40% in cost savings when compared to using traditional cloud providers and can scale models to more than 10K requests per minute with minimal engineering overhead. Simply write your code in Python and Cerebrium takes care of all infrastructure and scaling. Cerebrium is being used by companies and engineers from Twilio, Rudderstack, Matterport and many more.

Cerebrium funding2 rounds

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Cerebrium has raised $9M across 2 disclosed rounds. The latest is a $8.5M Seed announced 08 Jul 2025, led by Gradient.

Capital growthrunning total of disclosed rounds
  1. $500KPre-seedPre-seed, $500K, $500K raised to date
  2. $8.5MSeedSeed, $8.5M, $9M raised to date

SLA Funding Index · grey is capital raised before each round

Who has invested in Cerebrium

AnnouncedRoundLead · investorsAmount
08 Jul 2025Cerebrium SeedGradient +2$8.5M
15 Jan 2022Cerebrium Pre-seedY Combinator$500K

Cerebrium founders & team

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Frequently asked about Cerebrium

Where is Cerebrium based and when was it founded?
Cerebrium is headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa and was founded in 2021.
Who founded Cerebrium?
Cerebrium was founded by Michael Louis (Co-Founder & CEO), Michael Louis (Co-Founder & CEO), Jono Irwin (Co-Founder & CTO) and Jono Irwin (Co-Founder & CTO).
Who is the CEO of Cerebrium?
Michael Louis is Cerebrium's Co-Founder & CEO.
How much funding has Cerebrium raised?
Cerebrium has raised $9M across 2 disclosed rounds. Its latest, a $8.5M Seed, was announced on Jul 08, 2025.
Who has invested in Cerebrium?
Backers include Gradient, Y Combinator and Authentic Ventures.
What sector is Cerebrium in?
Cerebrium operates in Software Development., SaaS and Software.