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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Beam.\n\nEli Mernit co-founded Beam, a cloud platform for AI inference, sandboxes and agents, in Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch. He previously worked at On Deck and The New York Times.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mernit\n- X: https://x.com/elimernit\n\n## What Eli builds\n\n- [Beam](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam.md), graded C, 55.6/100, in GPU \u0026 serverless compute. Serverless GPU endpoints, task queues, functions, pods and sandboxes from Python decorators, on the open-source beta9 runtime. Co-founder, Beam, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Luke Lombardi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/luke-lombardi/), Co-founder, Beam\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Eli Mernit?\n\nEli Mernit co-founded Beam, a cloud platform for AI inference, sandboxes and agents, in Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch. He previously worked at On Deck and The New York Times.\n\n### What does Beam make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Beam from Beam. Serverless GPU endpoints, task queues, functions, pods and sandboxes from Python decorators, on the open-source beta9 runtime.\n\n### Who has invested in Beam?\n\nThe sources our research read name Y Combinator.\n\n### How are Eli's tools graded?\n\nBeam is graded C, 55.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/beam\n- https://www.beam.cloud/\n- https://www.beam.cloud/about\n\nThese 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. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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