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Verified 4 November 2026

fal

A San Francisco AI inference platform for generative media, giving developers image, video, audio and 3D models through a single API.

fal was founded in 2021 by Burkay Gur and Gorkem Yurtseven, who previously worked at Coinbase and Amazon, according to its about page. Its products are Model APIs, Serverless (autoscaling GPUs) and Compute (dedicated GPU clusters). It describes its mission as amplifying and expanding human creativity.

Press reports put its Series C at $125 million at a $1.5 billion valuation (July 2025, led by Meritech) and a Series D of $140 million at $4.5 billion (December 2025, reported as led by Sequoia with Nvidia and Kleiner Perkins participating).