fal, a San Francisco, CA-based AI infrastructure company, has raised $125 million in Series C funding, bringing its valuation to $1.5 billion.
Investors
The round was led by Meritech Capital Partners, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Shopify Ventures, Google AI Futures Fund, and existing investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, Kindred Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Notable Capital, First Round Capital, Unusual Ventures, and Village Global.
Meritech Capital Partners is a late-stage venture capital firm that invests in high-growth technology companies. Founded in 1999 and based in Palo Alto, California, the firm focuses on sectors such as enterprise software, consumer internet, infrastructure, and communications.
fal Use of Funds
The company will use the funds to expand its infrastructure platform, support enterprise and developer adoption, and accelerate its vision for real-time, AI-generated media at scale.
About fal
Founded by Burkay Gür and Gorkem Yurtseven, fal is a generative media infrastructure platform enabling real-time creation of images, video, audio, and 3D using a proprietary serverless engine. It allows customers to run any AI model, open-source, proprietary, or commercial, through a simple integration. Headquartered in San Francisco, fal supports over 1 million developers and 100+ enterprise customers, including Quora, Canva, Perplexity, Shopify, Moonvalley, Foster + Partners, and Play AI, generating billions of assets monthly.
Funding Details
Company: fal (Features & Labels, Inc.)
Raised: $125.0M
Round: Series C
Funding Date: July 2025
Lead Investor: Meritech Capital Partners
Additional Investors: Salesforce Ventures, Shopify Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Kindred Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Notable Capital, First Round Capital, Unusual Ventures, Village Global
Company Website: https://fal.ai/
Software Category: Generative AI Infrastructure / Media Tech
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