We’re investing in fal’s Series C to partner with Burkay Gur and Gorkem Yurtseven as they build the infrastructure backbone for AI-powered generative media experiences. Tomorrow’s digital experiences will be multimodal: blending text, images, audio, and video in ways we’re only beginning to imagine. fal is building the foundation for this future. Their platform brings together high-performance infrastructure, instant access to top multimedia models, and an intuitive prototyping canvas, making it fast and easy for anyone to experiment, build, and launch new generative media experiences. We work with founders obsessed with turning hard problems into simple, fast, and delightful experiences. We are thrilled to support fal as they unlock new creative possibilities for builders everywhere and collaborate with like-minded investors at Meritech Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Kindred Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Notable Capital, First Round Capital, Unusual Ventures and Village Global.
Today, we're thrilled to announce our $125M Series C funding round at a $1.5B valuation, led by Meritech Capital, marking our third successful raise in just 12 months! fal’s Generative Media Cloud now powers tens of thousands of applications, supporting over two million developers and more than 300 enterprise customers. From initial prototypes to fully scaled production, we've become the essential infrastructure enabling some of the most innovative and creative work in the industry. Over the past year alone, we've experienced extraordinary growth—averaging 40% month-over-month, consistently exceeding our own ambitious projections. Each month, hundreds of thousands of new developers and thousands of fresh applications join our platform, unlocking entirely new use cases previously thought impossible. With this latest round of funding, we're significantly scaling our engineering, support, sales, and marketing teams to keep pace with the accelerating demand and enthusiasm from our community. Our vision has always been clear: build a generative media platform that effortlessly creates dynamic, real-time content across video, audio, image, and 3D. Thanks to our incredible team, dedicated partners, and visionary customers, that's precisely what fal delivers today—empowering creativity at unprecedented scale. Alongside Arsham Memarzadeh from Meritech Capital we’d love to thank all our existing and new investors joining this round: Sameer Dholakia and Talia Goldberg from Bessemer Venture Partners, Jennifer Li from Andreessen Horowitz, Steve Jang from Kindred Ventures, Glenn Solomon and Dan Cahana from Notable Capital, Emily Zhao from Salesforce Ventures, Jane Lee from Shopify Ventures, Nick Landolfi from Unusual Ventures, Todd Jackson from First Round Capital and Anne Dwane from Village Global.