Startup profile for Civitai: latest funding, latest known valuation, total disclosed funding, investors, status, sources, and why the company is interesting. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker startup directory.
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Civitai funding, valuation and investors

Community marketplace for Stable Diffusion models and generative AI art.

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Funding, valuation & investors

Answer-first snapshot

Latest funding

Seed

$5.1M · 2023

Latest known valuation

Not publicly disclosed

Total disclosed equity funding

$5.1M

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

seed

Investors in latest funding

Lead: Andreessen Horowitz

Sources: latest funding Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

Civitai is the largest community marketplace for Stable Diffusion models, LoRAs, and generative AI art assets. a16z led a $5.1M seed in 2023. The platform hosts user-uploaded models with social features — a hub for open-source image generation enthusiasts and creators.

Why Civitai is interesting

Largest hub for open-source image models — a16z-led seed at $20M valuation with organic community growth.

Product & use cases

Community marketplace for Stable Diffusion models and generative AI art — upload, share, and download LoRAs and checkpoints.

  • Discovering and downloading SD models/LoRAs
  • Creator monetization of custom models
  • Open-source gen-AI art community hub

Key facts

  • Seed (2023): $5.1M led by a16z (Civitai blog)
  • Co-investors: no additional institutional investors disclosed in public sources reviewed 2026-07-24

Funding history (newest first)

Seed

2023 $5.1M

Source: https://civitai.com/articles/

Investors in our directory

Funds linked from Civitai's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.

Andreessen Horowitz

Competitive landscape

Edge: Civitai differentiates through focused product scope and a16z-backed GTM in its category — see competitors for tradeoffs vs. incumbents.

Civitai operates in a competitive category where incumbents have distribution but startups win on workflow fit. See named competitors for honest better/worse notes; we do not invent market share.

  • Hugging Face adjacent

    Broader ML model hub; Civitai SD-art community focus.

  • Tensor.art direct

    Similar model-sharing community.

Notable stories

  • Seed (2023): $5.1M led by a16z (Civitai blog)
  • Co-investors: no additional institutional investors disclosed in public sources reviewed 2026-07-24

Industries

AI & Machine Learning Consumer Media & Entertainment

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Community marketplace for Stable Diffusion models and generative AI art — upload, share, and download LoRAs and checkpoints.
Andreessen Horowitz (/fund/andreessen-horowitz) among disclosed investors. See fundraising rounds and investors[] for co-investors in our directory.
We track a16z-backed companies strategically relevant for founders mapping competitors and investors following active theses.
Stage: seed; status: private.
See fundraisingRounds — amounts included only when verified in press or company announcements.
See competitors and competitiveAnalysis sections for named alternatives.
Profitability not publicly disclosed unless noted in highlights. Public companies: check SEC filings.
Tagged: ai-ml, consumer, media-entertainment.
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