# Burkay Gur

> Burkay Gur is the Turkish co-founder and CEO of fal, a San Francisco company that gives developers access to generative image, video and audio models through fast APIs. He previously worked at Oracle and Coinbase. With co-founder Gorkem Yurtseven, he moved fal from a paying data infrastructure product into generative media inference.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at fal
- **Organizations:** fal, Coinbase, Oracle, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- **Nationality:** Turkish
- **Education:** S.B. in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Co-founded fal and led its pivot from a paying data product to a generative media model platform., Led fal through a $49 million Series B, $125 million Series C and $140 million Series D in 2025., Built a platform described by an investor as supporting more than 1,300 open and closed models by May 2026.

## Career timeline

- **2011** — Earned an S.B. in electrical engineering from MIT.
- **2012** — Completed an M.Eng. in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT.
- **Before 2016** — Worked at Oracle before joining Coinbase.
- **2016–2020** — Worked at Coinbase on machine learning and its supporting infrastructure.
- **2021** — Co-founded fal with Gorkem Yurtseven, initially serving machine learning data teams.
- **After 2022** — With Yurtseven, moved fal from data infrastructure to generative media inference.
- **2025** — Led fal through announced Series B, C and D funding rounds.
- **2026** — Spoke at Upfront Summit about the scale and prospects of generative media.

## Achievements

- Co-founded fal and led its pivot from a paying data product to a generative media model platform.
- Led fal through a $49 million Series B, $125 million Series C and $140 million Series D in 2025.
- Built a platform described by an investor as supporting more than 1,300 open and closed models by May 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Gur welcomed the founders of Lucent after fal acquired the creative AI company.
- **2026-08** — Fal introduced H3 Max, a video model post-trained by its research team.
- **2026-05** — Gur and Yurtseven discussed fal’s model-agnostic strategy and selective hiring with Notable Capital.
- **2026-02** — At Upfront Summit, Gur discussed fal’s thousand-model platform and his outlook for generative media.
- **2025-12** — Gur announced fal’s $140 million Series D and the fal Generative Media Fund.

## Links

- Website: https://fal.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/burkaygur
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/burkaygur

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Last updated: 2026-09-29