Cerebrium, a New York-based AI infrastructure platform, has successfully raised $8.5 million in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-focused venture capital fund, with additional participation from Y Combinator and Authentic Ventures. Founded in Cape Town by Michael Louis and Jonathan Irwin, Cerebrium provides a serverless AI infrastructure platform that enables engineering teams to build, deploy, and scale multimodal AI applications. The platform supports applications in sectors such as Voice AI, real-time avatars, and healthcare, offering a serverless CPU and GPU infrastructure that charges clients based on compute time usage. With this new funding, Cerebrium plans to expand its engineering team and enhance its platform features. Notable clients of Cerebrium include Tavus, Deepgram, and Vapi.

