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Turning retail data into ready-to-act recommendations, no data science team required.

WHAT THEY’RE BUILDING

Cerebra is a no-code decision intelligence platform for retailers that pulls in internal data (sales, inventory, CRM) and external signals (competitor pricing, reviews, weather) and turns them into specific, prioritized recommendations, executing some automatically, without requiring a data science or analytics team to run it.

THE FOUNDING TEAM

Cerebra was founded by Vehbi Değer Turan, a Stanford PhD and serial entrepreneur who translated his work on prediction models into the retail space. Tanay later joined as CTO after Cerebra acquired FeatherX, and the company strengthened the leadership bench post-investment with senior hires across COO, strategy, and engineering roles.

WHY WE BACKED THEM

Retail teams had more data than ever, but still lacked a system that could tell them what to do next. Cerebra stood out by combining internal retail data with external customer signals and turning them into clear, actionable recommendations, not just another dashboard. Strong retailer pull, limited direct competition, and Değer's deep prediction-model expertise made the opportunity compelling.

Investment date
2022 / Q2
Founders
Vehbi Değer Turan
Stage
Seed
Fund
Fund I
Sector
Retail Tech · Decision Intelligence
HQ
[San Francisco, California, US]
Status
Acquired