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December 3, 2025
Black Forest Labs raises $300M at $3.25B valuation
The round was co-led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP), and saw participation from a16z, NVIDIA, Northzone, Creandum, Earlybird VC, BroadLight Capital, General Catalyst, Temasek, Bain Capital Ventures, Air Street Capital, Visionaries Club, Canva and Figma Ventures.
TL;DR
- Black Forest Labs raised $300 million in Series B funding, valuing the company at $3.25 billion.
- The funds will be used for research and development.
- The company develops foundation AI models for generating and editing images.
- Its models are used by companies like Adobe, fal.ai, Picsart, ElevenLabs, VSCO, and Vercel.
- Elon Musk's Grok chatbot previously used Black Forest Labs' models.
- The latest model, Flux 2, offers improved rendering and can generate images up to 4K resolution using up to 10 reference images.
- Co-founders Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser, and Andreas Blattmann were formerly researchers involved in Stability AI's Stable Diffusion models.
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