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Burkay Gur
Co-founder
Previously First ML hire / ML infrastructure at Coinbase
Co-founder of fal. Previously the first machine learning hire at Coinbase, where he built the ML infrastructure platform.
fal is a generative AI inference platform for developers that hosts hundreds of image, video, audio, 3D and multimodal AI models behind fast APIs, optimized for low-latency real-time generative media use cases.
fal is a generative AI inference platform for developers that hosts hundreds of image, video, audio, 3D and multimodal AI models behind fast APIs, optimized for low-latency real-time generative media use cases.
fal was founded in 2021 by Burkay Gur and Gorkem Yurtseven. Burkay was the first ML hire at Coinbase, where he built the ML infrastructure platform, and Gorkem previously worked on Amazon SageMaker at AWS. The pair started fal to make AI inference faster and easier for developers, eventually pivoting to focus on generative media. The company is headquartered in San Francisco.
The strategic deal covers fal's generative AI platform used by Amazon MGM Studios, Canva, Adobe, and others. fal had reached an estimated $400M annualized revenue by early 2026.
HappyHorse-1.0 tops the Artificial Analysis Video Arena in both Text-to-Video and Image-to-Video categories. Available via four API endpoints: image-to-video, reference-to-video, text-to-video, and video-edit.
fal raised $140M led by Sequoia Capital, tripling its valuation to $4.5B, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Alkeon Capital, and NVIDIA's NVentures.
fal reported scaling to over $100M in annual recurring revenue and serving more than 500,000 developers, generating tens of millions of media outputs daily.
fal raised $125M in Series C funding led by Meritech Capital, with new investments from Salesforce Ventures, Shopify Ventures, and Google AI Futures Fund, valuing the company at $1.5B.
fal raised $49M in Series B funding from Notable Capital and Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Bessemer, Kindred, and First Round, bringing total funding to $72M.
fal, which hosts media-generating AI models, raised $23M across previously unannounced seed and Series A rounds led by a16z and Kindred Ventures.
Co-founder
Previously First ML hire / ML infrastructure at Coinbase
Co-founder of fal. Previously the first machine learning hire at Coinbase, where he built the ML infrastructure platform.
Co-founder & CEO
Previously Engineer on SageMaker and developer tools at Amazon Web Services
Co-founder and CEO of fal. Previously worked on Amazon SageMaker and developer tools at AWS.
$337M raised total
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