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The unified AI creative suite — generate, edit, and enhance images, video, and 3D
HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States | Founded: 2022 | Employees: ~50-60 (2026, est.) | Stage: Late Seed / Series B (~$500M valuation) | Website: https://www.krea.ai
Krea was founded in March 2022 by Victor Perez (CEO) and Diego Rodriguez (CTO), two friends from Barcelona who met studying audiovisual systems engineering at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Both were awarded prestigious 'King of Spain' scholarships to Cornell — but Victor attended for about a day before persuading Diego to drop out and build Krea instead. Rodriguez applied to HF0, the 'YC for technical founders' residency, using Victor's concept (confessing later), and both were admitted.\n\nTheir early viral spark was 'AI spirals' and a localhost real-time generation demo that went viral on Twitter and Reddit, driving ~200,000 waitlist signups overnight. Krea raised a pre-seed/seed (~$3M, led by Pebblebed with HF0, A* Capital, and Google's Gradient Ventures), a $33M Series A led by Andreessen
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