Today Black Forest Labs has announced a $300 million Series B round at a $3.25 billion post-money valuation.
Black Forest Labs was founded last year with a mission to build frontier models for pixels—systems capable of creating what cameras cannot capture. The team set out to develop models that understand intent rather than simply execute prompts, offering tools that turn imagination into reality for everyone from global enterprises to independent artists.
The company is deepening collaborations with existing partners, including a16z, NVIDIA, Northzone, Creandum, Earlybird VC, BroadLight Capital, and General Catalyst, while welcoming Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP) as co-leads, alongside Temasek, Bain Capital Ventures, Air Street Capital, Visionaries Club, Canva, and Figma Ventures.
Millions of users are already creating with the company’s FLUX models. Its open-source models rank among the most popular image models on Hugging Face, while its enterprise offerings are widely adopted across platforms such as Fal.ai, Replicate, and TogetherAI.
Industry leaders, including Adobe, Canva, Meta, and Microsoft, are building on Black Forest Labs’ technology to deliver new creative experiences. Yet the company views this moment as only the beginning.
Looking ahead, it envisions models that unify visual perception, generation, memory, and reasoning—laying the groundwork for true visual intelligence.
The new funding will accelerate research and development. With a small, world-class team—including pioneers behind latent diffusion, Stable Diffusion, and FLUX — Black Forest Labs continues to push the frontier of visual AI.
From its headquarters in Freiburg and San Francisco, the company is hiring and inviting others to help build the future of visual intelligence.
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