Krea Valued at $500 Million After Funding from Bain and Andreessen Horowitz

“The number one thing that sets us apart is taste,” say the co-founders of Krea, a San Francisco-based AI startup that just raised $83 million across several rounds to solve a problem many startups prefer to ignore: creative control. With a $500 million post-money valuation and backing from Bain Capital Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Abstract Ventures, Krea is building something more focused and far harder to execute. The $83 million didn’t arrive all at once. Krea raised an initial $3 million in pre-seed and seed funding, followed by a $33 million Series A, and most recently, a $47 million Series B led by Bain. According to sources familiar with the deal, the current valuation stands at half a billion dollars. Krea’s pitch is simple and specific: unify the flood of gener