# Gorkem Yurtseven

> Gorkem Yurtseven is the Turkish-born co-founder and CTO of fal, the San Francisco generative media platform. After engineering work at Amazon, he and Burkay Gur founded fal in 2021, shifted from data infrastructure to AI inference, and built APIs for image, video and audio models.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CTO at fal
- **Organizations:** fal, Amazon
- **Nationality:** Turkish
- **Education:** Bachelor of Engineering in computer systems engineering, University of Pennsylvania
- **Known for:** Co-founded fal in 2021 and led its technical direction as CTO., Helped redirect fal from data transformation to generative media inference while the original product had paying customers., Helped build APIs and an inference engine serving image, video and audio models.

## Career timeline

- **2013** — Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and moved into software engineering.
- **2014–2021** — Worked as a software development engineer at Amazon, including on SageMaker and developer tools.
- **2021** — Co-founded fal with Burkay Gur, initially developing data infrastructure for machine-learning teams.
- **2022–2023** — Shifted fal toward generative-model inference after the arrival of widely available image models.
- **2025** — Co-announced fal’s $125 million Series C; discussed the pivot and company growth in a First Round interview.
- **2026** — Discussed generative filmmaking at fal’s Generative Media Conference in San Francisco.

## Achievements

- Co-founded fal in 2021 and led its technical direction as CTO.
- Helped redirect fal from data transformation to generative media inference while the original product had paying customers.
- Helped build APIs and an inference engine serving image, video and audio models.
- In a 2025 interview, reported that fal had grown from about $2 million to more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue in under two years, with more than two million developers and 300 enterprise customers.
- Co-announced fal’s $125 million Series C in July 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Discussed model controllability, film production and creative collaboration at the Generative Media Conference in San Francisco.
- **2026-09** — fal published technical details of H3 Max, its post-trained video model.
- **2026-04** — Spoke at HumanX San Francisco on infrastructure for scaled generative media.
- **2025-12** — fal announced a $140 million Series D.

## Links

- Website: https://fal.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorkemy
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/gorkem
- GitHub: https://github.com/gorkemyurt

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Last updated: 2026-09-29