Startup · Germany
Black Forest Labs
HQ Freiburg Im Breisgau, GermanyFounded 202451-200 employeesUpdated
Black Forest Labs is building visual intelligence: models that understand, reason, and act in the world.
Funding4 rounds · $431M
- Equity raised
- $431M
- Latest
- $300MSeries B · Dec 1, 2025
- Last valuation
- $3.25BPost-money · Series B · Dec 1, 2025
| Announced | Stage | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors | Other investors | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1, 2025 | Series B | $300M | $3.25B | AMP, Salesforce Ventures | Air Street Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Earlybird, General Catalyst, Samsung Next, StepStone Group, SV Angel | Confirmed |
| Sep 1, 2024 | Undisclosed | $100M | — | — | — | Reported |
| Aug 1, 2024 | Seed | $31.0M | — | Andreessen Horowitz | General Catalyst | Reported |
| 2025 | Series A | Undisclosed | — | Andreessen Horowitz | Earlybird, General Catalyst | Speculative |
- Series BLed by AMP, Salesforce VenturesWith Air Street Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Earlybird, General Catalyst, Samsung Next, StepStone Group, SV AngelValuation $3.25BConfirmed$300MDec 1, 2025
- Undisclosed$100MSep 1, 2024
- $31.0MAug 1, 2024
- Undisclosed2025
Raised counts equity rounds; debt, secondary sales and grants are totaled separately. Amounts in other currencies are converted at the announcement month's average rate. A ~ marks an estimated or converted amount.
Systems8
- FLUX.1 [dev]Image-generation model available for self-hosted deployment.
- FLUX.2 [dev]Image-generation model available through licensed model weights.
- FLUX.2 [klein]Image-generation model family available through licensed model weights.
- FLUX 3 ActionAn open-weights world action model.
- FLUX 3 DevAnnounced open-weight multimodal model for content creation and action prediction.
- FLUX 3 ImageImage generation and editing model supporting layout-controlled composition.
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People7
| Person | Role |
|---|---|
| Andreas Blattmann · LinkedIn ↗ | Founder |
| Andreas Blattmann · LinkedIn ↗ | Co-Founder |
| Axel Sauer | Co-Founder |
| Dustin Podell · LinkedIn ↗ | Founder/Researcher |
| Patrick Esser | Co-Founder |
| Robin Rombach | Co-Founder & CEO |
| Sumith Kulal | Co-Founder |
Sources15
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Profile2
- 1
PitchBook · Supports Organization · employee range, Organization · founded year
“employee_range: 51-200 (profile: 108)”
- 2
Sixth-Domain · Supports Organization · country, Organization · kind
“{"country": "Germany", "hq_iso2": "DE", "id": "65f87dd8-d064-4804-97df-fee983469e79"}”
Systems6
- 3
Black Forest Labs · Supports Organization · description, Organization · name, Organization · website, System
“Black Forest Labs is building visual intelligence: models that understand, reason, and act in the world. Use FLUX models via our API.”
- 4
Black Forest Labs · Supports System
“While still in development, FLUX 3 Video is already particularly strong in capturing human facial expressions, associating sounds with physical events, and multilingual capabilities. Furthermore, these capabilities can be combined to create sequences lasting several minutes, where visual references help ensure that the characters remain consistent across all scenes.”
- 5
Black Forest Labs · Supports System
“- Available models: FLUX.1 \[dev], FLUX.2 \[dev], FLUX.2 \[klein] 4B (Apache 2.0) & 9B”
- 6
Black Forest Labs · Supports System
“Our FLUX.2 \[klein] Base 9B and FLUX.2 \[dev] models alongside 100K images/month — perfect for SaaS companies and product teams integrating image generation as a feature for their end users.”
- 7
Black Forest Labs · Supports System
“FLUX 3 is Black Forest Labs' multimodal model for video, audio, images and actions. FLUX 3 Image is the part that generates and edits images. You place every element on a canvas with a bounding box, then edit the finished image one box at a time.”
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Black Forest Labs · Supports System
“# FLUX Tools. Use-case-specific APIs — each a specialized endpoint fine-tuned to master a single task, often outperforming a general-purpose model for the same task. Built on FLUX and comes production-ready with one API call.”
Funding6
- 9
TechCrunch · Dec 1, 2025 · Supports Funding round
“The round was co-led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP)”
- 10
Black Forest Labs · Supports Funding round · amount, Funding round · post money valuation usd, Organization · ownership
“we're excited to announce our Series B of $300M at a $3.25B post-money valuation”
- 11
Crunchbase · Supports Funding round
“Funding Type Series A”
- 12
CB Insights · Supports Funding round
“Series A (2025)”
- 13
Octen Business Search · Supports Funding round, Organization · linkedin url, Role
“funding round: Venture Round, 2024-09-01, USD 100,000,000”
- 14
Latham & Watkins · Supports Funding round, Funding round · amount
“The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz”
People1
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Crunchbase · Supports Organization · hq city, Role
“hq_city: Freiburg Im Breisgau”
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