Cerebrium, Inc.
Cerebrium is a serverless AI infrastructure platform built to power the next generation of high-performance AI applications, enabling teams to deploy, scale, and operate AI workloads without managing servers.
Founding Story
Cerebrium was founded by Michael Louis and Jonathan Irwin after they struggled with the complexity, cost, and fragmented tooling of building AI-driven products at their previous company OneCart. They experienced firsthand the challenges of productionizing AI applications and managing infrastructure, which inspired them to create a platform that makes it radically easier for teams to focus on building AI products that users love rather than managing infrastructure.
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Leadership
Founders
Michael Louis
Previously CTO at OneCart (acquired by Walmart/Massmart). South African entrepreneur who founded businesses in ML, AI, blockchain, retail, and marketplaces. Also held roles as Lead Developer at OneCart, Head of Product at registree, Co-Founder and CTO at Sxuirrel, Consultant at MTN, and Part-time iOS Developer at Craftr.
Jonathan (Jono) Irwin
Co-founder & CTO with over 8 years of experience as a Javascript developer. Previously worked as Lead Engineer at OneCart before it was acquired. Holds a BComm and Finance Honours from the University of Cape Town and studied Data Science at Tilburg University.
Executive Team
Michael Louis
Co-Founder & CEO
Previously CTO at OneCart (acquired by Walmart/Massmart). Serial entrepreneur with experience in ML, AI, blockchain, retail, and marketplaces.
Jonathan (Jono) Irwin
Co-Founder & CTO
8+ years experience as a Javascript developer. Previously Lead Engineer at OneCart. BComm and Finance Honours from University of Cape Town, studied Data Science at Tilburg University.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Usage-based pricing model where customers pay only for compute resources used (per-second billing for GPUs and CPUs). Additional revenue from subscription tiers (Hobby, Standard, Enterprise) with monthly platform fees for higher tiers.
Pricing Tiers
3 user seats, up to 3 deployed apps, 5 concurrent GPUs, Slack & intercom support, 1 day log retention, 1000 CPU concurrency. First 100GB storage free.
10 user seats, 10 deployed apps, 30 concurrent GPUs, 30 day log retention, 1000 CPU concurrency, SOC2 compliance, observability features.
Unlimited deployed apps, unlimited concurrent GPUs, unlimited log retention, dedicated Slack support, unlimited CPU concurrency, full SOC2 compliance, priority support.
Target Markets
- AI/ML engineering teams at startups
- AI/ML engineering teams at enterprises
- Healthcare and regulated industries
- Financial services
- B2B SaaS companies building AI features
- Voice AI application developers
- Real-time voice agents and voice bots
- Large Language Model (LLM) applications
- LLM fine-tuning
- Video models and pipelines
- Image generation and processing
- Multimodal AI applications (language, voice, image, video)
- Tavus
- Deepgram
- Vapi
- bitHuman
History & Milestones
Expanded to new regions: India and Stockholm
Achieved ISO 27001 compliance
Raised $8.5M seed round led by Gradient Ventures
Launched Cerebrium run feature
Launched multi-region deployments
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Cerebrium
2moServerless AI infrastructure for deploying LLMs, agents, and vision models globally with low latency, zero DevOps, and per-second billing.
