# Brian Model (slim)

> Brian Model is co-founder of Thunder Compute. Thunder Compute on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder, Thunder Compute.

Brian Model is co-founder and CTO of Thunder Compute, a GPU cloud and virtualisation company from Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-model/

## What Brian builds

- [Thunder Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thunder-compute.md), graded C, 56.3/100, in GPU & serverless compute. Thunder Compute is a US GPU cloud renting RTX A6000, L40, A100 and H100 instances by the minute and GPU sandboxes by the second. Agents use its REST API, a hosted MCP server with OAuth, or the `tnr` CLI. Co-founder, Thunder Compute, researched 2026-10-26.

## Works with

- [Carl Peterson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/carl-peterson/), Co-founder, Thunder Compute

## Backed by

- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)
- [Matrix](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/matrix/)
- [CEAS Investments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ceas-investments/)

## Questions

### Who is Brian Model?

Brian Model is co-founder and CTO of Thunder Compute, a GPU cloud and virtualisation company from Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch.

### What does Thunder Compute make?

Anchor Terminal lists Thunder Compute from Thunder Compute.

### Who has invested in Thunder Compute?

The sources our research read name Y Combinator, Matrix and CEAS Investments.

### How are Brian's tools graded?

Thunder Compute is graded C, 56.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/thunder-compute
- https://www.thundercompute.com/
- https://www.thundercompute.com/contact

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.