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Tiny Edge AI For Tiny Devices

S25·Summer 2025·B2B·San Francisco, CA, USA·Team of 8·Founded 2025

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On-device AI for phones, wearables, smart home, robots and small robots: - Cactus Needle: 14MB agentic LLM for tiny devices - Cactus Engine: fastest runtime for tiny devices - Cactus Hybrid: post-trained models fall back to cloud

Founders

  • Roman Shemet· Founder

    Former quant & economist with a background in product and data engineering. Pilot, triathlete, chess enthusiast. Working on mobile inference @ Cactus.

  • Henry Ndubuaku· Founder

    Sidestepped an AI/ML role at Nvidia to work on Cactus.

Product launches · 1 launch

Change history · 2 recorded

  1. August 15, 2026
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