Cloud Computing · San Francisco, United States
Beam
The company is building an AI compute platform, led by Luke Lombardi and Eli Mernit. It has raised $7M from YC and Tiger Global, collaborates with customers via Slack, serves Coca Cola and Geospy, using Go, Python, and React/TypeScript.
- Location
- San Francisco, United States
- Team size
- 1-10
- Founded 2017
- Total raised
- $7M
About Beam
The company aims to build the world's best compute platform for AI and was founded to fix cloud computing for AI workloads. It is a small, highly-technical team led by Luke Lombardi, a hardware/software engineer with a robotics background, and Eli Mernit, a co-founder of Beam. The company has raised $7 million in funding from YC, Tiger Global, Guy Podjarny, and Jason Warner, reflecting strong early support. Technically, it uses Go for infrastructure, Python for backend APIs, and React/TypeScript for its dashboard, and it collaborates closely with customers through a dedicated Slack channel. Notable customers include Coca Cola and Geospy.
Culture & values
The company operates with a small, highly-technical team.
Team members come from backgrounds in distributed systems and robotics.
They actively seek engineers who are intensely curious, passionate, and hard-working.
They collaborate closely with customers and maintain a communal Slack channel for customer interaction.
Funding
$7Mtotal raised
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