Black Forest Labs

Private

Black Forest Labs is a frontier AI lab building state-of-the-art generative AI models for images and video. Founded by the creators of Stable Diffusion, the company develops the FLUX family of open-source text-to-image models, which have achieved over 400 million downloads and are used by Adobe, Canva, Meta, and Microsoft.

Founders Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, Patrick Esser
CEO Robin Rombach

Company

Founded
2024
Headquarters
Freiburg, Germany

Financials

Total Funding
$331M
Sectors
Artificial Intelligence Developer Tools
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Funding History

2 rounds
Series B Dec 1, 2025
$300M
Salesforce Ventures (Lead) Andreessen Horowitz NVIDIA Northzone Creandum Earlybird VC BroadLight Capital General Catalyst Temasek Holdings Bain Capital Ventures SV Angel Lux Capital Samsung Next Headline Adobe Ventures
Seed Aug 1, 2024
$31M
Andreessen Horowitz (Lead) General Catalyst Match VC

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