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  "markdown": "Co-founder.\n\nGorkem Yurtseven co-founded fal in 2021 with Burkay Gur. 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. The two co-wrote the July 2025 post announcing fal's $125M Series C.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorkemy\n\n## What Gorkem builds\n\n- [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.\n- [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.\n- [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.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Burkay Gur](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/burkay-gur/), Co-founder\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andreessen-horowitz/)\n- [Village Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/village-global/)\n- [Kindred Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kindred-ventures/)\n- [First Round Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/first-round-capital/)\n- [Aravind Srinivas](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/aravind-srinivas/)\n- [Guillermo Rauch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/guillermo-rauch/)\n- [Balaji Srinivasan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/balaji-srinivasan/)\n- [Julien Chaumond](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/julien-chaumond/)\n- [Notable Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/notable-capital/)\n- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bessemer-venture-partners/)\n- [Meritech Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/meritech-capital/)\n- [Salesforce](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/salesforce/)\n- [Shopify](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/shopify/)\n- [Google](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/google/)\n- [Unusual Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/unusual-ventures/)\n- [Sequoia Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sequoia-capital/)\n- [Kleiner Perkins](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kleiner-perkins/)\n- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)\n- [Alkeon Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alkeon-capital/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Gorkem Yurtseven?\n\nGorkem Yurtseven co-founded fal in 2021 with Burkay Gur. 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. The two co-wrote the July 2025 post announcing fal's $125M Series C.\n\n### What does fal (Features \u0026 Labels, Inc.) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists fal image models, fal music models and fal video models from fal (Features \u0026 Labels, Inc.). Model platform hosting hundreds of third-party image models behind one key and one queue API.\n\n### Who has invested in fal (Features \u0026 Labels, Inc.)?\n\nThe 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.\n\n### How are Gorkem's tools graded?\n\nfal 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.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://fal.ai/about\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/burkaygur\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorkemy\n- https://fal.ai/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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