# Victor Perez

> Víctor Pérez is the co-founder and CEO of Krea.ai, a San Francisco-based generative AI platform that has raised $83 million and grown to 20 million users. A Barcelona native who studied audiovisual systems engineering at UPF, Perez received the prestigious laCaixa Fellowship (a scholarship from the King of Spain) to pursue graduate studies at Cornell University — but spent just one day on campus before convincing his co-founder Diego Rodriguez to drop out and build Krea instead. A researcher whose work has appeared at NeurIPS and ICCV, and a graffiti artist at heart, Perez leads a company whose mission is to put creators in control of AI — not replace them with it.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Krea.ai
- **Organizations:** Krea.ai, Plyzer Intelligence, NYC Media Lab, Recurse Center
- **From:** Barcelona, Spain
- **Nationality:** Spanish
- **Education:** Audiovisual Systems Engineering, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Graduate Studies (did not complete — founded Krea.ai), Cornell University, Hacker residency program, Recurse Center
- **Known for:** Co-founded Krea.ai, reaching $500M valuation with $83M raised from Andreessen Horowitz and Bain Capital Ventures, Published 'Sculpting with Words' at NeurIPS (major AI conference), Co-authored paper at ICCV (International Conference on Computer Vision)

## Career timeline

- **2014** — Began studying Audiovisual Systems Engineering at UPF in Barcelona; met future co-founder Diego Rodriguez
- **2018-2020** — Head of Machine Learning Research at Plyzer Intelligence in Barcelona — developed graph neural networks and knowledge graphs for e-commerce
- **2020-2022** — Machine Learning Engineer in Berkeley; built prosepainter.com, published 'Sculpting with Words' at NeurIPS, co-authored paper at ICCV, collaborated with CHANEL on CLIP and GANs
- **2022** — Received laCaixa Fellowship (King of Spain scholarship) to attend Cornell University; spent one day on campus before dropping out to co-found Krea.ai with Diego Rodriguez
- **2022** — Co-founded Krea.ai in March 2022; participated in HF0 residency program in San Francisco; raised pre-seed funding in June 2022 after 'AI spirals' went viral on Twitter
- **2023** — Krea raised $3M seed round (led by Pebblebed); raised $33M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz; launched real-time AI creation platform in November 2023
- **2024** — Krea named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies 2024; presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Real-Time Live!
- **2025** — Krea raised $47M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures, reaching $83M total funding and $500M valuation; 20M+ users, $8M ARR

## Achievements

- Co-founded Krea.ai, reaching $500M valuation with $83M raised from Andreessen Horowitz and Bain Capital Ventures
- Published 'Sculpting with Words' at NeurIPS (major AI conference)
- Co-authored paper at ICCV (International Conference on Computer Vision)
- Collaborated with CHANEL on CLIP and GANs; featured in StyleCLIP (Adobe Research publication)
- Built prosepainter.com — an early AI creative tool
- Grew Krea.ai to 20 million users with $8M ARR (20x growth in 14 months)
- Secured laCaixa Fellowship, one of Spain's most prestigious postgraduate scholarships
- Presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Real-Time Live!
- Krea named Fast Company Most Innovative Company 2024 (design category)
- Enterprise clients include Pixar, LEGO, Samsung, Coca-Cola, and Perplexity

## Latest updates

- **2025-04** — Krea raised $47M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures, bringing total funding to $83M at a $500M post-money valuation
- **2025-04** — Krea reported 20M+ users and $8M ARR, representing 20x growth over 14 months
- **2024-08** — Victor Perez presented Krea at ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Real-Time Live! in Los Angeles
- **2024-03** — Fast Company named Krea one of its Most Innovative Companies of 2024 in the design category

## Links

- Website: https://www.vperez.me
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/iamvictorperez
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/viccpoes
- GitHub: https://github.com/vipermu
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/viccpoes/

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Last updated: 2026-05-11