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Stability AI startup funding profile
Generative models and creative-production tools for music, games, and entertainment, with rights holders now on the cap table.
Stage
series b
Status
private
Coverage
full
Overview
Stability AI develops generative models and creative-production tools. On August 25, 2026 it announced a $76 million Series B. New investors named in the company post include Electronic Arts, Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, AMD Ventures, and Pacific Alliance Ventures. Coatue, Greycroft, Kadmos Capital, Sean Parker, and Eric Schmidt participated for a second consecutive round under CEO Prem Akkaraju (appointed June 2024). Coatue co-founder Thomas Laffont joined the board. The company puts Akkaraju-era funding at $232 million inclusive of two equity rounds and convertible notes — not a reconstructed lifetime total since 2019. Valuation was not disclosed. The October 2022 ~$101 million round that aggregators still reprint is historical, not August 2026 tape. TechCrunch notes Stability largely prevailed in Getty’s UK copyright case; a U.S. Getty suit is pending.
Why Stability AI is interesting
August 25, 2026: $76M Series B with EA, Universal, Sony, and Warner as new investors. Coatue returned; Thomas Laffont joined the board. No valuation. Aggregator sheets still dump the October 2022 $101M round as if it were this month’s news — it is not.
Product & use cases
Image, video, and audio generative models plus professional creative-production tools. August 2026 product callout: Stable Audio 3.0, described as open-weight music models trained on fully licensed data, with a DAW plugin.
- Licensed AI music in artist and studio workflows
- Game and entertainment concept and production tools with rights-holder partners
- Professional services around those models
Key facts
- Aug 25, 2026: $76M Series B; EA, UMG, Sony, Warner, AMD Ventures, Pacific Alliance Ventures (company)
- Coatue and Greycroft returning; Thomas Laffont to the board
- Akkaraju-era total $232M (two equity rounds + convertibles) — not a 2019–2026 lifetime sum
- Valuation not disclosed
- Do not treat the Oct 2022 $101M Coatue-era round as August 2026 news
Fundraising history
Series B
2026-08 $76M- Electronic Arts (participant)
- Universal Music Group (participant)
- Sony Music Group (participant)
- Warner Music Group (participant)
- AMD Ventures (participant)
- Pacific Alliance Ventures (participant)
- Coatue (participant)
- Greycroft (participant)
Investors in our directory
Funds linked from Stability AI's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.
Competitive landscape
Edge: Rights holders as shareholders rather than only counterparties, plus a returning crossover firm (Coatue) on the board. That is alignment, not a disclosed 2026 valuation.
Higgsfield is the priced August generative-media mark. Stability is the rights-alignment raise with no mark. Diligence is licensed-data products and the pending U.S. Getty case, not the 2022 last-round dump.
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Higgsfield adjacent
Priced August 2026 video-gen print: $400M Series B at $5.4B. See /startup/higgsfield.
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OpenAI / other frontier labs adjacent
General-purpose image and video models; Stability is pitching licensed vertical tools.
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In-house studio tools incumbent
EA, labels, and WPP can build or buy; they are also on Stability’s roster.
Notable stories
- Coatue co-founder Thomas Laffont joined Stability’s board with the August 2026 Series B (company).
Industries
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