Gorkem Yurtseven is co-founder and CTO of fal. He studied computer engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and worked as a senior software engineer at Amazon Web Services before starting the company.
He and Burkay Gur launched fal in 2021 as Features and Labels, a data infrastructure tool. In 2022 the company pivoted to serving diffusion and other generative media models.
In December 2025 fal raised $140M at $4.5B. In April 2026 it raised $350M led by Sequoia at $8B.
On 3 November 2026 it announced a $1.3B Series F led by Bessemer at $16B. In May 2026 it named Amazon Web Services its preferred cloud provider.