All my AI startups are powered by @FAL so I invested in them They're one of the nicest people to work with, extremely fast inference times but also extremely fast support The founders are Turkish and now I have a special thing for 🇹🇷 Turkey and wanna visit Istanbul, hard working people that don't tolerate bullshit, I like it The business case for FAL seems real, I tried setting up my own GPU server on @LambdaAPI, it's fun and I got quite far installing Claude Code and letting it do everything But you still get stuck pretty fast, it's a lot of work to manage the layer between GPU and actually getting an AI model to output something fast while being able to scale up on demand (remember other startups with their "Queued" problems when you try run a job) So FAL has its role, it backs a lot of the AI apps you use because the founders want to focus on building useful apps, not mess around with GPU servers
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fal31.7.2025
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.
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