Freiburg, Germany-based Black Forest Labs, the “visual intelligence” company behind Flux, has announced a $300 million Series B funding round led by AMP and Salesforce Ventures, at a post-money valuation of $3.25 billion.
The round follows a previously unannounced Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from BroadLight Capital, Creandum, Earlybird VC, General Catalyst, Northzone, and Nvidia, bringing total funds raised to over $450 million.
“Founded in 2024 by the researchers who pioneered modern image generation with latent diffusion, Black Forest Labs has become a global category leader in visual intelligence, repeatedly setting the benchmark for frontier open-source and enterprise-grade multimodal systems,” said Black Forest Labs.
“In just over a year, Black Forest Labs’ state-of-the-art models are amongst the most popular in the world, ranking as the leading text-to-image models on Hugging Face with tens of millions of downloads, in addition to partnerships with over a dozen Fortune 500 enterprises.”
Black Forest Labs CEO and Co-Founder Robin Rombach said: “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.”
The company added: “Black Forest Labs’ strategy of pairing open, efficiently trained foundational research with large-scale enterprise deployments has enabled the company to scale quickly while developing models that are technically sophisticated, locally accessible, and responsibly developed.
“Partners as varied as Adobe, Canva, Deutsche Telekom, and Meta have integrated FLUX models directly into creative and enterprise workflows, reflecting broad, global demand for high-performance visual intelligence.”