Cerebrium YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Cerebrium went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2022
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Michael LouisFounder
Jonathan IrwinFounder

What Cerebrium does

Cerebrium is a serverless infrastructure platform for AI applications. We make it easier for companies to build and deploy AI based applications. We offer Serverless GPU's with low cold start times, over 12 varieties of GPU chips, allow you to run large scale batch jobs, run realtime voice applications and much more. We are used by the teams at Tavus, CivitAI, Twilio and many more. 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.

Cerebrium's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Cerebrium, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Cerebrium

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Serverless Infrastructure Platform for AI

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We provide a serverless platform specifically designed for AI applications. Our product allows companies to deploy AI workloads on GPUs without managing infrastructure. We support over a dozen GPU types, enable low cold start times, and let teams run large batch jobs or realtime AI services like voice applications. The goal is to simplify AI deployment and reduce costs compared to traditional cloud providers.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in New York, NY, and plan to base the company there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in New York now because that's where the founding team lives and builds the product. Remaining here lets us stay focused and leverage our local network while we grow.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Cerebrium YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Cerebrium's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Cerebrium would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.