# Lyceum: press facts

> Lyceum is a sovereign European AI inference provider for open-source models.

Source: https://lyceum.technology/company/press/, facts checked on 29 September 2026. Quote them as written, and ask press@lyceum.technology for anything that isn't here.

## Key facts

- Founded: 2025
- Founders: Magnus Grünewald (CEO) and Maximilian Niroomand (CTO)
- Offices: Berlin and Zurich
- Inference: Open models through one API, billed per token, and dedicated endpoints
- Compute: GPU virtual machines billed per second, serverless training and clusters
- Data centres: In Europe
- Funding: €10.3 million pre-seed, June 2025
- Investors: redalpine (lead) and 10x Founders
- Press contact: press@lyceum.technology

## Boilerplate

Lyceum is a sovereign European AI inference provider for open-source models. Teams call models such as Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek and Qwen through one OpenAI-compatible API, billed per token with no base fee. They can reserve dedicated inference endpoints, or rent GPU virtual machines by the second to run their own models. The GPUs run in European data centres. Prompts and outputs are processed, not stored, and never used for training. Magnus Grünewald and Maximilian Niroomand founded Lyceum in 2025. It is backed by redalpine and 10x Founders. Talk to the engineers who run Lyceum at lyceum.technology.

## Short boilerplate (about 50 words)

Lyceum is a sovereign European AI inference provider for open-source models. Teams call models such as Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek and Qwen through one OpenAI-compatible API, billed per token, on GPUs in European data centres. Prompts and outputs are processed, not stored, and never used for training. Talk to the engineers who run it.

## Funding

In June 2025, redalpine led our €10.3 million pre-seed round, with participation from 10x Founders. Announcement: https://lyceum.technology/blog/lyceum-raises-10-3-million-in-pre-seed-funding/

- redalpine, led the round: "Lyceum is building the sovereign European answer to AI compute." (Sebastian Becker, General Partner at redalpine)
- 10x Founders, joined the round: "Lyceum is building what Europe urgently needs: secure, sovereign infrastructure for the AI age." (Jan Becker, Partner at 10x Founders)

## News and coverage

- 15 July 2026, FAZ: Chinesische KI-Apps machen ChatGPT Konkurrenz (in German). https://www.faz.net/premium/digitalwirtschaft/kuenstliche-intelligenz/chinesische-ki-apps-machen-chatgpt-konkurrenz-accg-201028763.html
- 15 December 2025, Lyceum: Lyceum is live on AWS Marketplace. https://lyceum.technology/blog/lyceum-aws-marketplace/
- 4 December 2025, Eqvista: The promise of sovereign cloud computing: insights from Lyceum's Magnus Grünewald. https://eqvista.com/interview-with-magnus-grunewald-lyceum/
- 16 July 2025, FAZ: Start-up aus Berlin will AI Gigafactory bauen (in German). https://www.faz.net/pro/digitalwirtschaft/kuenstliche-intelligenz/lyceum-start-up-aus-berlin-will-ai-gigafactory-bauen-110586207.html
- 24 June 2025, Lyceum: Lyceum raises €10.3 million in pre-seed funding. https://lyceum.technology/blog/lyceum-raises-10-3-million-in-pre-seed-funding/
- 24 June 2025, Tech.eu: Sovereign by design: Lyceum emerges with €10.3M to redefine cloud infrastructure in Europe. https://tech.eu/2025/06/24/sovereign-by-design-lyceum-emerges-with-eur103m-to-redefine-cloud-infrastructure-in-europe/

## Name

- Write "Lyceum".

## Logos: which file for which use

Use the wordmark wherever it fits: headers, footers, slides, event pages and announcements with a partner. Use the symbol only where the wordmark won't fit or read: social avatars, app icons and favicons. Use one or the other, never both together.

All files are at https://lyceum.technology/images/brand/. Everything in one download: https://lyceum.technology/images/brand/lyceum-brand-assets.zip

| Use | File | Size |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Websites, apps and slides on a light background | https://lyceum.technology/images/brand/lyceum-wordmark.svg | vector |
| The same on a dark or Electric background | https://lyceum.technology/images/brand/lyceum-wordmark-white.svg | vector |
| Documents and tools that can't take SVG | https://lyceum.technology/images/brand/lyceum-wordmark.png or lyceum-wordmark-white.png | 4352 × 656 px, transparent |
| Print | the SVG files | vector |
| Social avatar or app icon | https://lyceum.technology/images/brand/lyceum-mark.png, centred on a square with its clear space | 2048 × 2094 px, transparent |
| The symbol on a dark background | https://lyceum.technology/images/brand/lyceum-mark-white.svg or lyceum-mark-white.png | vector, or 2048 × 2094 px |
| Favicon | https://lyceum.technology/favicon.svg (turns White Chip in a dark browser theme) | vector, shown at 16 px |

## Logos: size, space and colour

- Wordmark: at least 120 px wide on screen and 25 mm in print. Keep x clear on every side, where x is the width of the L's upright stroke.
- Symbol: at least 24 px on screen (16 px only as a favicon) and 6 mm in print. Keep half its height clear on every side.
- Colours: the Blue Chip (#000114) version on White Chip (#F2F2F2); the White Chip version on Blue Chip or Electric (#2F0AC2). On photos or other colours, use whichever stands out more, over a calm area.
- Use the files as they are: don't redraw, retype, rearrange, stretch, squash or recolour them, don't combine the symbol and wordmark, and don't add effects such as shadows or outlines.

## Your logo next to ours

- Your logo first, then a thin × half as tall as our wordmark, then our wordmark.
- Leave h, the height of our wordmark, between each logo and the ×, and h clear around the pair.
- Or make the image on the press page: https://lyceum.technology/company/press/#announcement-image. Formats: LinkedIn post 1200 × 627 px, X post 1600 × 900 px, Square 1080 × 1080 px. Backgrounds: Electric, Blue Chip, White Chip.

## Contact

- Press: press@lyceum.technology