AI infrastructure startup Cerebrium, cofounded in Cape Town by CEO Michael Louis and CTO Jonathan Irwin, raised an $8.5 million seed round led by Gradient Ventures.
Cerebrium helps engineers build and scale multimodal AI apps, focusing on categories like Voice AI, real-time digital avatars, and healthcare.
The startup provides infrastructure building blocks for model inference, training, and data processing, enabling customers to deploy applications efficiently.
Cerebrium plans to utilize the funds to hire more engineers, cater to enterprise demand, and introduce new features.