FREIBURG, Germany, Dec. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Black Forest Labs, the category-defining visual intelligence company behind FLUX, today announced a $300M Series B led by AMP and Salesforce Ventures, at a post-money valuation of $3.25B. 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 $450M USD.
Building a category leader in visual intelligence
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. 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.
'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.” said Robin Rombach, CEO and Co-Founder. “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.'
Open research, real-world deployment
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.
“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,” said Nowi Kallen, Salesforce Ventures. “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.”
This investment marks the next step in the company’s mission to deliver frontier AI research at global scale and demonstrates that an independent lab can operate at the frontier alongside the world’s leading model developers.
“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,” said Anjney Midha, AMP.
Next: The Future of Visual Intelligence
The Series B investment will accelerate Black Forest Labs’ research and development, hiring, and infrastructure efforts as the team advances its flagship model family, FLUX – including the recently released FLUX.2 As demand grows for high-performance, openly available systems, the company will expand its research to push the frontier of visual intelligence.
In Collaboration with
In addition to returning investors, Black Forest Labs is proud to work with 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 angel investors including Nico Rosberg (Founder, Rosberg Ventures & F1 World Champion), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Michael Ovitz, Mati Staniszewski (ElevenLabs), and Clem Delangue (Hugging Face), who also participated in the rounds.
To learn more about Black Forest Labs and the FLUX family of models, visit bfl.ai or contact press@blackforestlabs.com
About Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs is a pioneering developer of frontier AI for pixels, transforming how we shape and experience the visual world. An independent lab with global impact, Black Forest Labs’ technology enables creators, developers, and enterprises to make imagination reality. The Black Forest Labs team pioneered latent diffusion, Stable Diffusion, and FLUX.1—milestones that transformed generative AI, and made visual AI accessible to millions.
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