Black Forest Labs has raised $300 million in a Series B funding round led by AMP and Salesforce Ventures, valuing the company at $3.25 billion post-money. The investment builds on a previously unannounced Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from BroadLight Capital, Creandum, Earlybird VC, General Catalyst, Northzone, and Nvidia. With this new round, the company has now secured more than $450 million in total funding.
Founded in 2024 by the researchers behind latent diffusion and the early breakthroughs that reshaped modern image generation, Black Forest Labs has rapidly emerged as a global leader in visual intelligence. Its FLUX model family has become one of the most widely used text-to-image technologies worldwide, achieving tens of millions of downloads on Hugging Face and powering creative and enterprise workflows in partnership with numerous Fortune 500 companies.
The company operates in Freiburg and San Francisco and is focused on building multimodal systems that unify perception, reasoning, and generative capabilities. Black Forest Labs has positioned visual AI as a critical shift from image creation to meaningful visual understanding, which is driving growing global demand.
The company pursues a dual approach that pairs open foundational research with large-scale enterprise deployments. This strategy has allowed Black Forest Labs to scale efficiently while maintaining a strong emphasis on responsibility, accessibility, and technical rigor. Its models are already embedded within platforms used by global creative and enterprise teams, including Adobe, Canva, Deutsche Telekom, and Meta.
The new capital will support expanded research, infrastructure, and hiring as the team advances the FLUX model family, including the recently released FLUX.2. As organizations seek high-performance, openly available visual AI systems, Black Forest Labs plans to deepen its work on next-generation frontier models.
In addition to earlier investors, the company is collaborating with a wide group of strategic partners and backers, including Temasek, Air Street Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, StepStone Group, Visionaries Club, S32 Ventures, Notion Capital, the European Tech Collective, Shutterstock, QuantumLight Capital, Canva, Figma Ventures, Cherry, Adobe Ventures, Deutsche Telekom’s T.Capital, LEA Partners, SV Angel, Lux Capital, Samsung Next, Headline, and prominent angel investors such as Nico Rosberg, Guillermo Rauch, Michael Ovitz, Mati Staniszewski, and Clem Delangue.
Black Forest Labs continues to focus on developing frontier technology for pixels, enabling creators, developers, and enterprises to turn imagination into reality. Its team previously pioneered Stable Diffusion, FLUX.1, and the latent diffusion techniques that defined the modern generative AI landscape.
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“We built Black Forest Labs to advance visual intelligence at the frontier, and we’re proud to be doing so from both our hometown in southern Germany and the heart of innovation in San Francisco. Visual AI is shifting from impressive image generation to genuine understanding and the market for our products is growing rapidly as a result. This is just the beginning. We’re building multimodal models that unify perception, generation, and reasoning – foundational infrastructure for how we’ll shape and experience the visual world.”
Robin Rombach, CEO and Co-Founder
“Black Forest Labs is building visual AI that meets the expectations of enterprise teams: dependable models, clear integration paths and an open approach that supports a broader ecosystem. Their focus on responsible development and practical deployment makes them a strong partner for customers adopting AI at scale. We are enthusiastic about their progress and look forward to them continuing to contribute to the global conversation on how AI is developed and deployed.”
Nowi Kallen, Salesforce Ventures
“Black Forest Labs represents the rare combination of frontier research and disciplined execution. The team has shown that a small group of world-class scientists, operators, and engineers can meaningfully advance visual intelligence and deliver models that creators and developers rely on every day. We are proud to support their long-term vision and excited for what this next chapter will enable.”
Anjney Midha, AMP
