fal raises $49M in Series B to scale AI media infrastructure

Company name: fal
Location: San Francisco, CA
Industry: AI infrastructure for media creation

Funding details:

• Amount: $49M (Series B round)
• Total funding to date: $72M
• Investors:
  • Notable Capital
  • Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
  • Bessemer Venture Partners
  • Kindred Ventures
  • First Round Capital
• Board additions:
  • Jennifer Li (a16z)
  • Glenn Solomon (Notable Capital)

Purpose of investment:

• Infrastructure expansion: Scaling cloud capacity for AI video by transitioning from thousands of Hopper GPUs to tens of thousands of Blackwell GPUs.
• Model marketplace & ecosystem: Introducing community-driven features and model endpoints, including Whisper, Flux, and Stable Diffusion benchmarks.
• Team expansion

Leadership:

• CEO & Co-founder: Burkay Gur
• Co-founder: Gorkem Yurtseven

Product:
fal provides an infrastructure platform for generative media, offering high-performance inference solutions for AI-driven video, image, and audio applications.

Key features:

• Cloud-based AI media infrastructure: Scalable architecture to support enterprise AI content creation.
• Model marketplace: Supports leading AI models, including Whisper, Flux, and Stable Diffusion.
• Enterprise partnerships: Collaborates with research labs, developers, and enterprises to accelerate AI-driven media production.

Future plans:
With this funding, fal will scale its infrastructure, expand AI model offerings, and deepen its partnerships with enterprises and research institutions globally.