Lemony

Lemony is an AI infrastructure startup that reduces the cost of running large language models through intelligent cascade routing and domain-specific model selection. Founded by Sascha Buehrle and Ivan Kuleshov and backed by True Ventures with a million seed round, Lemony's core product is cascadeflow, an open-source AI routing system that automatically selects the most cost-efficient model capable of handling each query, achieving reported reductions in monthly LLM spend of up to 90%. The cascadeflow system operates with approximately two milliseconds of routing latency and is designed for both edge devices and cloud deployments. In addition to its cost-optimization router, Lemony has also offered an on-premises generative AI platform that provides enterprise-grade trust, ownership, and transparency in AI by keeping models and data within a company's own infrastructure. The company is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and targets enterprises and developers seeking to make AI usage economically sustainable at scale.