
Cumulus Labs
Performant serverless GPU inference
Verdict
Cumulus has real product infrastructure: live console, documentation, blog, and the ION routing tool. Claims 12.5s GPU cold start vs Modal's 70s. Pay-per-compute pricing model with YC and NVIDIA Inception backing. Founders from Georgia Tech, NASA, Palantir, and Space Force bring relevant infra experience. Main risk is direct competition from Modal, Replicate, and cloud providers improving their GPU offerings. The live console and docs show engineering execution.
Active Founders
Suryaa Rajinikanth studied computer science at Georgia Tech, where he concurrently worked at TensorDock as a Lead Engineer, building the first distributed GPU marketplace serving thousands of consumers and businesses. He went on to deploy critical AI systems and infrastructure in high-performance environments at Palantir.
Veer studied Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, graduating in December 2025. During college, he worked at an aerospace startup where he led a Space Force SBIR contract for military satellite communications and contributed to several NASA SBIR programs, two of which were commercialized and are currently being flight tested in space. Before college, he captained his FIRST Robotics Team 5422: Stormgears, qualifying for Worlds all four years.
