Fal.ai
Fal, founded in 2021 in Oakland, USA, provides AI tools that help developers create images, videos, and audio.
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Snapshot 2026-11-04- Startup SignalsTop 5%
- Dev Platforms#2of 25
- Multimodal#8of 68
- InferenceTop 25%
- Video#1of 49
About
Fal, founded in 2021 in Oakland, USA, provides AI tools that help developers create images, videos, and audio. The company's clients include Quora, Canva, and Perfasciity. Fal currently powers 40% of Poe's official image and video generation bots.
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Capital graph
Investor· 10
Founders / team· 2
Funding history
- 2026-11-03Series F$1.3B
Investors · Bessemer Venture Partners, NVIDIA, Sound Ventures, T. Rowe PriceSource · bvp.com ↗
- 2025-12-09
- 2025-07-31Series C$125M
Investors · SHOPIFY, Salesforce Ventures, Meritech Capital, Google AI Futures FundSource · SVTR Weekly #116 ↗
- 2025-02-12Series B$49M
Investors · Notable Capital, First Round Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Kindred VenturesSource · businesswire.com ↗
- 2024-09New funding round$23M
Investors · Kindred Ventures, Andreessen HorowitzSource · SVTR Weekly #071 ↗
Comparable companies· by market
This company
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Fal.ai
Provides AI tools that help developers create images, video and audio
Series D+ · $1.7B · 2026-11
$1.7B
United States
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Series C · $943M · 2025-11
$943M - Runway
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Series D+ · $933M · 2026-02 · Valuation $5.3B
$933MValuation $5.3B
China
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Aisphere
Generates AI videos and virtual worlds from images and prompts
Series C · $570M · 2026-07
$570M - ShengShu
Develops multimodal large models and world models, and has launched products including Vidu
Series B · $586M · 2026-04
$586M - HiDream.ai
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Series C · $208M · 2026-07
$208M
Europe
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Haiper
AI tools for creating high-quality videos from text input
Seed · $14M · 2024-03
$14M - Jentic
AI agents that autonomously integrate with online systems to automate API connections, data extraction and business and developer workflows
Seed · $4M · 2025-01
$4M - kausable
Reasoning-first causal AI world models (learning from small amounts of data)
Seed · $15M · 2026-07
$15M
Other / unspecified
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Moonvalley
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Undisclosed · $207M · 2025-07
$207M - Video Rebirth
AI models for generating and editing video
Seed · $50M · 2025-11
$50M - Mira
Decentralized infrastructure platform aimed at expanding access to advanced AI.
Seed · $22M · 2025-11
$22M
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