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fal (Features & Labels Inc.)

Inference-as-a-service cloud for generative media — giving developers and enterprises API access to 1,000+ image, video, audio, and 3D AI models with sub-second latency and no GPU management.

fal.ai · San Francisco

CALL NO.CS·FAL·26
StageSeries DOctober 2025[1]
Raised$454Mdisclosed rounds[1]
Headcount84as of Apr 2026[23]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2021[24][25][28]
Money

Raised $454M across disclosed rounds.[1]

Series D closed October 2025.[1]

Round size and post-money valuation are not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, Meritech Capital, Kindred Ventures, Notable Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, First Round Capital, Unusual Ventures, Village Global, Nvidia (NVentures), Salesforce Ventures, Shopify Ventures, Alkeon Capital.[24][25][27][29][30]

People

Burkay Gur, Co-Founder[2][3][4][7][32][23]

Gorkem Yurtseven, Co-Founder[2][3][4][7][32][23]

Brandon Feria, GTM[5][6][8][23][14][15]

Ben Glikbarg, Founding GTM[5][6][8][23][14][15]

Batuhan T., Head of Engineering[5][6][8][23][14][15]

Adam Ho, Head of Design[5][6][8][23][14][15]

Julia Liu, Head of Finance[5][6][8][23][14][15]

Robert Graham, Head of Legal[5][6][8][23][14][15]

Sean Bonawitz, Head of Trust & Safety[5][6][8][23][14][15]

Signals
May 19 2026newsfal Scales the World's Largest Generative Media Platform with AWS, Serving 2.5 Million Develope. company claim, not independently confirmed[10]
Apr 29 2026news/C O R R E C T I O N -- fal/ company claim, not independently confirmed[9]
Apr 27 2026hiringfal headcount grew 261% YoY to 84 employees; hiring Senior SRE, Staff Software Engineer, Staff Infrastructure Engineer company claim, not independently confirmed[23]
Apr 26 2026launchfal Launches as Official Partner API for GPT Image 2, Delivering Immediate Developer Access to.[11]
Apr 21 2026launchGPT Image 2 available on fal on day 0 of launch company claim, not independently confirmed[23]
Apr 16 2026newsfal named to Forbes Top 50 AI Companies 2026 and Wing Venture Capital Enterprise Tech 30 company claim, not independently confirmed[23]
Comps

Replicate · replicate.com · Same buyer (developers embedding generative image/video models via API), same product category (serverless inference API for generative media models), and named alongside fal in developer comparisons of model hosting platforms.[25][27][34]

Baseten · baseten.co · Same workflow (deploying and serving generative AI models via managed GPU infrastructure with autoscaling), same enterprise buyer segment, and competes directly on the inference-as-a-service layer that fal occupies.[27][24][30]

Modal · modal.com · Same serverless GPU infrastructure category targeting developers who want to run generative media inference without provisioning hardware — directly overlapping with fal's serverless API tier.[25][27][34]

Together AI · together.ai · Same developer and enterprise buyer, same API-first model hosting category, and cited in the same generative AI infrastructure market context as fal — both compete on inference speed and breadth of hosted open-source models.[25][27][30]

Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[10]

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fal (Features & Labels Inc.)

CALL NO.CS·FAL·26

Inference-as-a-service cloud for generative media — giving developers and enterprises API access to 1,000+ image, video, audio, and 3D AI models with sub-second latency and no GPU management.

fal.ai · San Francisco

StageSeries D
Raised$454M
Headcount84
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2021
CompsReplicate +3

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