Burkay Gur is the Co-Founder and CEO of fal, the generative media company. fal was born out of a shared passion for the intersection of arts and AI and a desire to address the challenges in AI infrastructure. Operating at the forefront of AI Inference in generative media, fal empowers developers to create the next generation of creativity tools! Burkay previously led Machine Learning at Coinbase and is a graduate from MIT. 

Steve Jang is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kindred Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm with over $900M in fund assets-under-management. Named to the Forbes Midas List twice recently as one of the world’s top 50 venture capital investors, Steve has invested in over 100 startups as a VC and angel investor across AI, frontier tech, hardware, and crypto. His portfolio includes early AI investments in Perplexity and Fal, both of which he serves on the board, and earlier venture investments in Coinbase and Uber, where he was a founding advisor and angel investor. To date, Kindred has backed 11 unicorns so far with two IPOs.

Before founding Kindred Ventures, Steve co-founded several consumer technology startups, including Bitski (acquired by Phantom), and SoundTracking (acquired by Rhapsody). Earlier, he co-created imeem, the pioneering on-demand music streaming service, which reached over 100 million users before its acquisition by MySpace.

He also supports filmmakers and produces independent films that have been featured on Apple, Netflix, and Amazon, such as Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV, a Sundance-premiered documentary now on Netflix, and Vitalik, a documentary about Ethereum founder, Vitalik Buterin.