# Burkay Gur

> Burkay Gur is co-founder. fal image models, fal music models and fal video models on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Co-founder.

Burkay Gur co-founded fal in 2021 with Gorkem Yurtseven. fal runs generative image, video and audio models for developers, and the company says the two started it after seeing AI infrastructure problems in their earlier work at Coinbase and Amazon. Gur announced fal's $140M Series D in December 2025.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/burkaygur

## What Burkay builds

- [fal image models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fal-image.md), graded B, 65.5/100, in Image generation. Model platform hosting hundreds of third-party image models behind one key and one queue API. Co-founder, researched 2026-10-27.
- [fal music models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fal-music.md), graded B, 68.5/100, in Music generation. fal hosts third-party music models behind one queue API and one key. Co-founder, researched 2026-10-27.
- [fal video models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fal-video.md), graded B, 69.1/100, in Video generation. fal hosts third-party and open-weights video models, including Seedance, Kling, Veo, MiniMax and Wan, behind one queue API, one key and a hosted MCP server. Co-founder, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Gorkem Yurtseven](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/gorkem-yurtseven/), Co-founder

## Backed by

- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andreessen-horowitz/)
- [Village Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/village-global/)
- [Kindred Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kindred-ventures/)
- [First Round Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/first-round-capital/)
- [Aravind Srinivas](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/aravind-srinivas/)
- [Guillermo Rauch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/guillermo-rauch/)
- [Balaji Srinivasan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/balaji-srinivasan/)
- [Julien Chaumond](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/julien-chaumond/)
- [Notable Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/notable-capital/)
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bessemer-venture-partners/)
- [Meritech Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/meritech-capital/)
- [Salesforce](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/salesforce/)
- [Shopify](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/shopify/)
- [Google](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/google/)
- [Unusual Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/unusual-ventures/)
- [Sequoia Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sequoia-capital/)
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kleiner-perkins/)
- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)
- [Alkeon Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alkeon-capital/)

## Questions

### Who is Burkay Gur?

Burkay Gur co-founded fal in 2021 with Gorkem Yurtseven. fal runs generative image, video and audio models for developers, and the company says the two started it after seeing AI infrastructure problems in their earlier work at Coinbase and Amazon. Gur announced fal's $140M Series D in December 2025.

### What does fal (Features & Labels, Inc.) make?

Anchor Terminal lists fal image models, fal music models and fal video models from fal (Features & Labels, Inc.). Model platform hosting hundreds of third-party image models behind one key and one queue API.

### Who has invested in fal (Features & Labels, Inc.)?

The sources our research read name Andreessen Horowitz, Village Global, Kindred Ventures, First Round Capital, Aravind Srinivas, Guillermo Rauch, Balaji Srinivasan, Julien Chaumond, Notable Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Meritech Capital, Salesforce, Shopify, Google, Unusual Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA and Alkeon Capital.

### How are Burkay's tools graded?

fal image models is graded B, 65.5 out of 100; fal music models is graded B, 68.5 out of 100; fal video models is graded B, 69.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://fal.ai/about
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/burkaygur
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorkemy
- https://fal.ai/

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