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  • Fal's Series F of about $1.3 billion is led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with Nvidia investing again as a strategic backer.
  • Together with a Sequoia-led Series E closed earlier this year, the two rounds total about $1.65 billion.
  • Bloomberg reports a $16 billion valuation, twice the $8 billion level of April, and annualized revenue of around $800 million; Fal itself has not disclosed either figure.

Fal, a San Francisco company that runs image, video and audio generation models for developers, announced on November 3 a Series F led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Nvidia invested again as a strategic backer, and Sound Ventures and T. Rowe Price also took part, according to media reports. The round is reported at about $1.3 billion. Fal disclosed at the same time a Series E led by Sequoia Capital that closed earlier in 2026, bringing the two rounds to roughly $1.65 billion.

A valuation that doubled in seven months

Fal did not publish its valuation, but Bloomberg reported that the new round values the company at $16 billion. That would be twice the $8 billion figure attached to the Sequoia-led round in April, which was reported at around $350 million. As recently as December 2025, the startup had announced a $140 million Series D.

The growth story behind the price is mostly reported, not disclosed. Bloomberg, citing a person familiar with the matter, said Fal reached about $800 million in annualized revenue this year; other coverage, drawing on The Information, describes that figure doubling from about $400 million in March. Annualized revenue reflects a current run rate rather than full-year sales, and says nothing about profitability, which Fal does not report.

What Fal sells

Founded in 2021 by Burkay Gur and Gorkem Yurtseven, who previously worked on machine-learning infrastructure at Coinbase and Amazon, Fal does not position itself as a foundation-model lab. It hosts third-party and in-house generative models behind a single API, offers a serverless system for customers to deploy their own models and pipelines, and rents dedicated Nvidia H100 instances for training and fine-tuning. Reports name Adobe, Canva and Shopify among the companies using the platform in production.

Where the money goes

The company says the capital will fund its 2027 plans: more inference capacity to serve models at scale, a larger team and new research, without detailing how the money will be split. The emphasis on capacity fits comments from chief executive Burkay Gur, who has said demand outran supply this summer and forced Fal to rate-limit some customers.

The round shows how much investors are willing to pay for companies that sit between model makers and application builders. Whether that position holds will depend on Fal securing enough compute and turning rapid revenue growth into durable margins.