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Funding and backers

Total raised
$72M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$49M
Series B · Feb 2025 · 20 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
40
+17 posted in 30 days
Backers
9
Endeavor, Bessemer Venture Partners
The money's age
Due for its next round
20 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
32/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Feb 12, 2025 Raised a round Series B $49M · fal.ai Blog Generative AI Model Releases & Tutorials Sep 18, 2024 Raised a round Venture round $23M · TechCrunch Aug 1, 2024 On the Hacker News front page Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters · 683 points Nov 29, 2023 Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Public demo of SDXL Turbo's real-time image generation Feb 15, 2022 On the Hacker News front page The Unbundling of Airflow · 164 points 2021 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
56 public repositories
Launched on Hacker News
1 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series B Feb 2025 $49M — fal.ai Blog Generative AI Model Releases & Tutorials
Venture round Sep 2024 $23M — TechCrunch
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How Fal hires

Truth index
A 91/100
Median time to fill
55 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
35%
Reposted roles
0%

Fal scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 23 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 35% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 55 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Fal is a generative media AI infrastructure platform headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2021 by former Coinbase and Amazon engineers Burkay Gur and Gorkem Yurtseven, the enterprise is backed by prominent venture investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Bessemer Venture Partners, and Salesforce Ventures.

News

Award Crypto Briefing 29 days ago
Hollywood AI video editing becomes fal's fastest-growing segment
Fal.ai's AI video editing tools are now Hollywood's fastest-growing segment, with the platform valued at $4.5 billion after a $140M Series D
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News fal.ai 2 months ago
MiniMax H3 Max (Text to Video) API on fal
fal's H3 Max is a post-trained variant of MiniMax H3, tuned for stronger prompt adherence and better aesthetics while co-optimized with our custom inference stack for higher throughput with no compromises on output quality
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Press release PRNewswire 4 months ago
Sonilo Launches Licensed AI Music Generator for Video on fal.ai
/PRNewswire/ -- Sonilo today announced that its video-to-music model is now available on fal.ai, enabling users to generate a custom, licensed soundtrack for...
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Introducing PATINA
0:00/0:181AI image models have become extremely good at producing something that looks like stone, ceramic, brushed metal, leather, or concrete, but these images are not readily usable in a traditional CGI workflow - they have baked-in specular highlights
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News fal.ai 6 months ago
Seedance 2.0 API Live on fal (April 2026) Video Generation API
Integrate Seedance 2.0 via the fal serverless API. ByteDance's most advanced video generation model with cinematic output, native audio, real-world physics, and director-level camera control.
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News App Store 7 months ago
Imagine If - AI Story Writer App
Download Imagine If - AI Story Writer by Tugay Pala on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Imagine If - AI Story…
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News fal.ai 8 months ago
State of Generative Media Volume 1 fal
In 2025, generative media technology became available for production use-cases across all modalities as focus shifted from raw capabilities to orchestration and cost optimization.
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Chasing 6+ TB/s: an MXFP8 quantizer on Blackwell
We built an MXFP8 quantizer in CuTeDSL that hits 6+ TB/s on B200. The kernel writes scale factors directly into the packed layout that Blackwell's block-scaled Tensor Cores expect, so downstream GEMMs can consume them without an additional pack step.MXFP8
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News z-image.app 10 months ago
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Fal over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
95
Postings analysed
27
Stack modernity
69/100AI adopter
Languages
Python74%
SQL22%
TypeScript19%
JavaScript19%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js15%
Next.js11%
CUDA7%
PyTorch7%
Databases
BigQuery11%
Google BigQuery11%
PostgreSQL11%
ClickHouse4%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes33%
Linux30%
Datadog11%
AWS11%
AI & ML
Claude4%
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Full Fal tech stack 95 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$230k
Typical range
$105k – $360k
Open positions
37
30 Jobs
Junior 10%
Middle 16.7%
Senior 40%
Staff 26.7%
Principal 3.3%
Architect 3.3%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 3 $130k $120k – $170k
Middle 5 $220k $180k – $250k
Senior 12 $240k $200k – $360k
Staff 8 $250k $200k – $300k
Principal 1 $250k $250k
Architect 1 $300k $300k
Highest paying role Account Executive, Enterprise $360k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Fal By role, level and city, against the market · 37 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
74/100
Growing
Open positions
40
16 opened / 6 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
56 days
faster than 25% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Marketing
28% ▲
Sales
16% ▲
AI/ML
13% ▲
Backend
6% ▼
DevOps
6% ▼
HR
6% ▼
Actively hiring for Marketing (+6 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Post-training to stack Oct 2026
Added Hugging Face to stack Oct 2026
Added Fine-tuning to stack Oct 2026
Added Diffusers to stack Oct 2026
Added Computer Vision to stack Oct 2026
Added PyTorch to stack Oct 2026
Added GitHub Actions to stack Oct 2026
Added Claude Code to stack Oct 2026
Added Accelerate to stack Oct 2026
Added YouTube to stack Oct 2026
Added SIEM to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco United States
HQ
33 open roles 25 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 50-200 est. staff $228k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Sales, AI/ML
San Francisco, CA, 94105, USA
seen since Jul 2025 company site, job postings

Jobs

$180k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Kubernetes
Apply
$150k – $200k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
CI/CD
Apply
$170k – $230k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Python
Claude Code
AI Agents
Accelerate
PyTorch
OpenAI Codex
DevOps
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
Docker
Apply
$180k – $230k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
Fine-tuning
Computer Vision
Diffusers
PyTorch
Hugging Face
Post-training
Machine Learning
Apply
$180k – $230k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
gRPC
Datadog
Prometheus
Kubernetes
Apply
$180k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
Machine Learning
DevOps
Kubernetes
Apply
$165k – $200k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Multimodal AI
Management
Discord
Apply
$180k – $250k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Python
Ansible
GCP
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
eBPF
Linux
DNS
BGP
Cybersecurity
Wireshark
Tcpdump
Apply
$160k – $200k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Apply
$200k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
Apply
$180k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
Rust
TypeScript
SQL
PostgreSQL
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
Management
Stripe
Apply
Remote (India, Australia, New Zealand) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Python
Diffusion Models
DevOps
Kubernetes
Incident Management
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$72M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series B 2025 $49M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $23M Details