# Eli Mernit (slim)

> Eli Mernit is co-founder of Beam. Beam on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder, Beam.

Eli Mernit co-founded Beam, a cloud platform for AI inference, sandboxes and agents, in Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch.

- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mernit
- X: https://x.com/elimernit

## What Eli builds

- [Beam](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam.md), graded C, 55.6/100, in GPU & 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.

## Works with

- [Luke Lombardi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/luke-lombardi/), Co-founder, Beam

## Backed by

- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)

## Questions

### Who is Eli Mernit?

Eli Mernit co-founded Beam, a cloud platform for AI inference, sandboxes and agents, in Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch.

### What does Beam make?

Anchor Terminal lists Beam from Beam.

### Who has invested in Beam?

The sources our research read name Y Combinator.

### How are Eli's tools graded?

Beam is graded C, 55.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/beam
- https://www.beam.cloud/
- https://www.beam.cloud/about

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.