Cerebras Overview

  • Year Founded
  • 2016

Year Founded

  • Status
  • IPO Registration

  • Employees
  • 525

Employees

  • Latest Deal Type
  • IPO
  • (Announced)

  • Investors
  • 76

Cerebras General Information

Description

Cerebras Systems Inc is an AI company. It designs processors for AI training and inference. The company builds AI systems to power, cool, and feed the processors data. It develops software to link these systems together into industry-leading supercomputers that are simple to use, even for the most complicated AI work, using familiar ML frameworks like PyTorch. Customers use its supercomputers to train industry-leading models. The company uses these supercomputers to run inference at speeds unobtainable from alternative commercial technologies. It delivers these AI capabilities to its customers on-premise and via the cloud. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the USA.

Contact Information

Website
www.cerebras.ai
Ownership Status
In IPO Registration
Financing Status
Venture Capital-Backed
Corporate Office
  • 1237 East Arques Avenue
  • Sunnyvale, CA 94085
  • United States
Primary Industry
Application Specific Semiconductors
Other Industries
Systems and Information Management
Other Hardware
Vertical(s)
Big Data, CloudTech & DevOps, Manufacturing, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, TMT, Internet of Things
Corporate Office
  • 1237 East Arques Avenue
  • Sunnyvale, CA 94085
  • United States

Cerebras Timeline

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Cerebras Valuation & Funding

Deal Type Date Amount Raised to Date Post-Val Status Stage
10. IPO 02-Apr-2024 Announced Generating Revenue/Not Profitable
9. Later Stage VC 01-Aug-2024 Completed Generating Revenue
8. Later Stage VC 01-Jan-2024 Completed Generating Revenue
7. Later Stage VC 01-Jun-2023 Completed Generating Revenue
6. Later Stage VC (Series F) 10-Nov-2021 Completed Generating Revenue
5. Later Stage VC (Series E) 30-Nov-2019 Completed Generating Revenue
4. Later Stage VC (Series D) 27-Nov-2018 Completed Generating Revenue
3. Later Stage VC (Series C) 24-Jul-2017 Completed Generating Revenue
2. Early Stage VC (Series B) 26-Jan-2017 $25M $52M Completed Generating Revenue
1. Early Stage VC (Series A) 05-May-2016 $27M $27M Completed Startup
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Cerebras Cap Table

Stock # of Shares
Authorized		 Par Value Dividend Rate (%) Original
Issue Price		 Liquidation Liquidation
Pref. Multiple		 Conversion Price % Owned
Series F
Series E
Series D
Series C
Series B 9,076,079 $0.000010 8% $2.75 $2.75 1x $2.75 5.93%
Series A 31,731,394 $0.000010 8% $0.85 $0.85 1x $0.85 20.93%
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Cerebras Comparisons

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Cerebras Systems Inc is an AI company. It designs processors for AI training and inference. The company builds AI system
Application Specific Semiconductors
Sunnyvale, CA
525 As of 2025

Toronto, Canada
 

El Dorado Hills, CA
 
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Cerebras Competitors (26)

One of Cerebras’s 26 competitors is Tenstorrent, a Venture Capital-Backed company based in Toronto, Canada.

Company Name Financing Status Location Employees Total Raised Last Financing Date/Type Last Financing Amount
Tenstorrent Venture Capital-Backed Toronto, Canada
Blaize Formerly VC-backed El Dorado Hills, CA
Nvidia Formerly VC-backed Santa Clara, CA
Graphcore Formerly VC-backed Bristol, United Kingdom
NationalChip Venture Capital-Backed Hangzhou, China
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Cerebras Patents

  • 168

    Total Documents Applications and Grants

  • Total Patents Families

  • 143

    Granted

  • 16

    Pending

  • Expiring in next 12 mo

Cerebras Recent Patent Activity

Publication ID Patent Title Status First Filing Date Technology (CPC) Citations
US-20240370522-A1 Methods and systems of depth-wise separable (dwd) convolution on a multi-dimensional memory fabric Pending 01-May-2023
US-20210143041-A1 System and method for alignment of an integrated circuit Active 08-Nov-2019
US-11145530-B2 System and method for alignment of an integrated circuit Active 08-Nov-2019
US-20210407840-A1 System and method for alignment of an integrated circuit Inactive 08-Nov-2019
US-20220374288-A1 Distributed placement of linear operators for accelerated deep learning Pending 30-Oct-2019 G06F9/54
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Cerebras Investors (76)

Investor Name Investor Type Holding Investor Since Participating Rounds
3cap Venture Capital Minority
AJI Capital Venture Capital Minority
Artisanal Ventures Venture Capital Minority
Aurum Venture Partners Venture Capital Minority
Bossa Invest Venture Capital Minority
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Cerebras FAQs

  • When was Cerebras founded?

    Cerebras was founded in 2016.

  • Where is Cerebras headquartered?

    Cerebras is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

  • What is the size of Cerebras?

    Cerebras has 525 total employees.

  • What industry is Cerebras in?

    Cerebras’s primary industry is Application Specific Semiconductors.

  • Is Cerebras a private or public company?

    Cerebras is a Private company.

  • What is Cerebras’s current revenue?

    The current revenue for Cerebras is .

  • How much funding has Cerebras raised over time?

    Cerebras has raised $723M.

  • Who are Cerebras’s investors?

    3cap, AJI Capital, Artisanal Ventures, Aurum Venture Partners, and Bossa Invest are 5 of 76 investors who have invested in Cerebras.

  • Who are Cerebras’s competitors?

    Tenstorrent, Blaize, Nvidia, Graphcore, and NationalChip are some of the 26 competitors of Cerebras.

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