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ComfyUI Raises $30M Financing, at $500M Valuation

Apr 27, 2026 | By Startuprise io

ComfyUI, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a workflow platform for generative AI, has raised $30 million in a funding round led by Craft, with participation from Pace Capital, Chemistry, TruArrow, and others.

The company is valued at $500 Million. The funding round increased the total amount raised to $48 million.

The company plans to use the funds to accelerate product development, expand its ecosystem, and add new features.

ComfyUI started as an open-source project and has grown into a widely used tool for creator controlled AI workflows supporting image video, 3D and audio across local systems and the cloud. Thanks to strong community support and word of mouth, it is now used by major studios, agencies, and enterprise teams for AI-powered creative work.

Studios like Black Math use ComfyUI to build flexible creative pipelines that connect motion, texture and generative tools, helping teams move beyond one time projects and create scalable design systems that clients can continue to use and expand over time.

Agencies and ad studios like Silverside AI use ComfyUI to create major brand campaigns, including SVEDKA’s 2026 Super Bowl commercial—the first Super Bowl ad largely made with AI. This gives teams better creative control, consistent quality, and faster production. Technical artists also use ComfyUI like engineers use code combining models, LoRAs, ControlNets and community tools into clear repeatable workflows.

For example, a concept artist can link image generation to depth and editing tools to maintain shape consistency while changing styles. At the same time a VFX freelancer can build pipelines to process hundreds of assets overnight. Once created, these workflows are saved as simple JSON files, making them easy to share, reuse and update.

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“AI has fundamentally changed the creative process, and the best tools amplify human creativity rather than replace it — that’s exactly what ComfyUI is doing. Comfy’s differentiator is its highly technical, rapidly growing community of more than 4 million users. It’s become the open-source standard for production-grade creative AI workflows. The creative suite of the future will look nothing like the tools of the past—we believe it will look like Comfy,” shared Sean Whitney, Investor at Craft.

“With this funding, we can make sure open source wins,” said Yannik Marek, cofounder and creator of ComfyUI. “We and many in the community have spent a lot of effort: countless hours, even years, working directly and indirectly on ComfyUI. Without you, we would not exist. We want to live in a world where the best tool is open source. Now we can finally make our dream real.”

“ComfyUI is so important to us because it allows us to know that we always play on the bleeding edge. Not only because of the technology itself, but because of the entire community shaping the product and developing extensions that we can use in our creative development process,” said PJ Pereira, Co-founder of Silverside AI.

“We've used many different tools, but using ComfyUI really brings artist empowerment to the forefront. I want my employees to feel like they have control over the process. The more exposed they can be to how the models work, the more we feel we’re creating something that only we could make,” said Jeremy Sahlman, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer at Black Math.

"Comfy has innovated a new and powerful ecosystem for creativity without compromising creative control. It has been amazing to watch technical artists and curious creative minds leverage Comfy to explore the full surface area of their ideas,” said Scott Belsky, Founder of Behance.

About ComfyUI

Founded in 2024, by Yoland Y. and Robin Huang, ComfyUI is a node based platform for generative AI that gives creators full control over their workflows. It supports many types of models and can be expanded with a growing range of community built tools. Used by millions of creators, developers, and studios, ComfyUI lets users build and run AI workflows for images, video, 3D, and audio, and is available both locally and in the cloud.

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