01 Snapshot
The one-glance read on who they are and how they grow. Each point is verifiable from the receipts above.
An AI creative suite (image, video, 3D generation, editing, upscaling) for individual creators and design teams, monetized through freemium credit-based subscriptions.
Organic-led, compounding off recurring open-weight model launches that break onto Hacker News rather than sustained paid acquisition.
~4.1M monthly visits as of 2026-07-10, 195,314 Instagram followers, and $83M raised at a ~$500M valuation as of its April 2025 Series B (TechCrunch).
As of 2026-07-10, a new paid-search buyer entity (Xun Meng International Limited) is running fresh Krea search ads alongside its usual Midjourney- and Runway-conquesting copy.
Krea's distribution engine is its research output: shipping genuinely open-weight foundation models (Krea 2 pulled 415 Hacker News points) turns each release into free technical-audience reach, not just a product update.