Smartshare, Inc.
Beam is a serverless cloud platform for AI applications, offering on-demand GPU compute and secure sandboxes for inference, training, and data processing.
At a Glance
- AI Startups
- Machine Learning Engineers
- Enterprise AI Teams
- Independent Developers
AI Tools by Smartshare, Inc.
(1)Beam
AI Sandbox and GPU Infrastructure
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Products & Services
On-demand serverless execution with GPU access, allowing developers to run jobs without managing VMs.
Environment for running untrusted LLM-generated code at scale with secure runtime isolation.
Infrastructure for deploying WhisperX and other audio models for fast transcription and speech processing.
Headless or headed Chromium execution for large-scale web scraping workloads.
Market Position
Positions as a faster and easier alternative to managing VMs or using AWS Lambda (which lacks GPUs). Competes with Replicate, Lambda Labs, and E2B by focusing on developer experience and scale-to-zero efficiencies.
Leadership
Founders
Eli Mernit
Co-founder and CEO. Previous roles include early leadership at Beam Cloud. College roommate of co-founder Luke Lombardi.
Luke Lombardi
Co-founder and CTO. Previously Robotics Engineer at Aescape, Senior Software Engineer at StrongArm Tech, and Software Engineer at Revel. YC W22 alum.
Executive Team
Eli Mernit
Chief Executive Officer
CEO and Co-founder of Smartshare, Inc. (Beam Cloud).
Luke Lombardi
Chief Technology Officer
CTO and Co-founder. Engineering lead with background in robotics and software systems.
Founding Story
Founded by college roommates Eli Mernit and Luke Lombardi. The company originally launched as 'Slai' (focused on device discovery and ML workflows) during the Y Combinator W22 batch before rebranding to Beam Cloud to focus on serverless GPU infrastructure.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Usage-based pay-per-millisecond model (scale-to-zero) with an additional Enterprise tier for high-volume users.
Pricing Tiers
$30 of free credit every month.
Billed per millisecond of container lifecycle. CPU: ~$0.190/core/hr, RAM: ~$0.020/GB/hr.
Custom pricing per month plus usage. Includes unlimited apps, storage volumes, and seats.
Target Markets
- AI Startups
- Machine Learning Engineers
- Enterprise AI Teams
- Independent Developers
- LLM Inference and Training
- Audio and Video Transcription
- Web Scraping at Scale
- Fine-tuning Open-Source Models (Llama 3, Whisper)
- Running Agentic Workflows
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