# Cake

> Cake is a New York-based startup that bundles the sprawling open-source AI stack into a single managed platform, so companies - especially in regulated industries like finance, insurance and healthcare - can deploy AI inside their own cloud without wiring together 100+ tools by hand. Founded in 2022 by Misha Herscu and Skyler Thomas and launched from stealth in December 2024 with a $13M seed led by Google's Gradient Ventures, Cake handles the integration, security, governance and cost-monitoring glue around open-source components like LangChain, Ray, MLflow and vector databases, all deployed inside a customer's own VPC so data never leaves.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Misha Herscu (Co-Founder & CEO), Skyler Thomas (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~13 employees
- **Products:** Cake AI Management Platform, Cake Agents, Governance, security & compliance, Real-time cost monitoring, Open-source framework support
- **Notable:** Raised $13M total, including a $10M seed led by Google's Gradient Ventures, and launched from stealth in December 2024., Integrates and secures 100+ open-source AI components into a single managed platform., Early customers reported ~80% lower implementation costs and 6-9 months saved on deployments.

## Products & services

- **Cake AI Management Platform** — A managed platform deployed inside the customer's own cloud VPC that integrates and secures 100+ open-source and proprietary AI components - covering data ingestion, labeling, vector/graph databases, model training, deployment, inference and observability.
- **Cake Agents** — Collaborative, AI-assisted development capabilities that help teams build and operate AI systems on top of the Cake platform.
- **Governance, security & compliance** — Fine-grained access controls, audit trails, and compliance alignment for SOC 2, HIPAA and FIPS, with a 'no data egress' architecture so infrastructure and data stay in the customer's environment.
- **Real-time cost monitoring** — Live AI cost visibility, forecasting and budget enforcement across projects, servers and models.
- **Open-source framework support** — Pre-integrated support for popular open-source tools such as LangChain, Ray, MLflow and Airflow, plus connectors to AWS, GCP, Azure, Snowflake and Databricks.

## Achievements

- Raised $13M total, including a $10M seed led by Google's Gradient Ventures, and launched from stealth in December 2024.
- Integrates and secures 100+ open-source AI components into a single managed platform.
- Early customers reported ~80% lower implementation costs and 6-9 months saved on deployments.
- Claims 3.9x faster AI system deployment for customers.
- Founding team includes a former IBM chief architect (Skyler Thomas) and a founder who previously sold a radiology-AI company (McCoy Medical Technologies, acquired by TeraRecon in 2017).

## Latest updates

- **2024-12** — Cake emerged from stealth with a $13M raise ($10M seed led by Gradient Ventures) to make open-source AI enterprise-ready.
- **2025** — Expanded platform positioning toward regulated industries with in-VPC 'no data egress' deployment, cost monitoring and SOC 2 / HIPAA / FIPS compliance.
- **2026** — Product site highlights Cake Agents, real-time cost governance and budget enforcement, and integrations across AWS, GCP, Azure, Snowflake and Databricks.

## Links

- Website: https://www.cake.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cake-ai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/cake_ai_ml

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Last updated: 2026-07-06