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Black Forest Labs Secures $300M Series B Funding
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Germany-based AI lab Black Forest Labs announced on Monday it has completed a $300 million Series B funding round, boosting its valuation to $3.25 billion.
Funding Overview
- Co-leads: Salesforce Ventures, Anjney Midha’s AMP
- Participants: a16z, NVIDIA, Northzone, Creandum, Earlybird VC, BroadLight Capital, General Catalyst, Temasek, Bain Capital Ventures, Air Street Capital, Visionaries Club, Canva, and Figma Ventures
Use of Funds: The company states the capital will be dedicated to research and development efforts.
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Company Background
Founded in August 2024, Black Forest Labs focuses on foundation AI models for generating and editing images.
Key Highlights
- Early adoption: Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot reportedly uses the lab’s image generation model.
- Industry adoption: Models used by Adobe, fal.ai, Picsart, ElevenLabs, VSCO, and Vercel.
- Flagship release: Recently launched Flux 2, offering:
- Improved text and image rendering accuracy
- Ability to reference up to 10 images for stylistic consistency
- Support for image generation at 4K resolution
Founders
Black Forest Labs was co-founded by:
- Robin Rombach
- Patrick Esser
- Andreas Blattmann
All are former researchers involved in building Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion model.
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References
TechCrunch: Black Forest Labs raises $300M at $3.25B valuation
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