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AI infrastructure startup Cerebrium raised $8.5 million in a seed round led by Gradient Ventures to enhance its platform for multimodal AI applications.

PRIVATEJul 06, 2025

Amount Raised

$8.5 Million

Round Type

Seed

New YorkSoftwareArtificial Intelligence

Investors

Y CombinatorAuthentic VenturesGradient Ventures

Description

Cerebrium has secured an $8.5 million seed round led by Gradient Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator and Authentic Ventures. The funding will help advance its infrastructure for building and scaling multimodal AI applications. Founded in Cape Town and headquartered in New York, Cerebrium assists engineering teams in deploying applications efficiently. The company currently employs four engineers and is generating millions.

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  • Seemplicity raised $50M (Series B) on August 20, 2025.
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  • Convoke raised $8.6M (Seed) on August 20, 2025.
  • SynergySuite raised $12M (Funding Round) on August 20, 2025.
  • Bluefish raised $20M (Series A) on August 20, 2025.
  • Zipline AI raised $7M (Seed) on August 19, 2025.

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Company Information

Company

Cerebrium

Location

New York, New York, United States

About

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.

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