Beam

Total raised$7.0M
StageSeries A
Founded2017
Team size1-10
HQSan Francisco, United States
IndustriesCloud InfrastructureAI/MLSaaSDeveloper Tools

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.

Company at a glance

Location
San Francisco, United States
Websitebeam.cloud
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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.

Life at Beam

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