German generative AI startup (Flux models) for generating hyper-realistic images from text, founded by former Stable Diffusion members.
Founders
Robin Rombach(Germany · ♂)— A lead author of the latent-diffusion paper and Stable Diffusion at Stability AI, he co-founded Black Forest Labs to build state-of-the-art open image models (FLUX).
Patrick Esser(Germany · ♂)— A co-creator of Stable Diffusion at Stability AI, he co-founded Black Forest Labs to advance generative image and video models.
Andreas Blattmann(Germany · ♂)— A latent-diffusion paper co-author and Stable Diffusion researcher, he co-founded Black Forest Labs to keep frontier generative models in Europe.
Dominik Lorenz(Germany · ♂)— One of the original Stable Diffusion creators, he co-founded Black Forest Labs to build the FLUX family of generative models.
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Germany's Black Forest Labs announced a $300 million Series B at a $3.25 billion valuation, co-led by AMP and Salesforce Ventures, with a16z and NVIDIA.
$300M
Sep 2025
Funding round
Black Forest Labs is reportedly in talks to raise $200-300 million at a valuation of around $4 billion, in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
$300M
Aug 2024
Funding round
Black Forest Labs raised $31M for its generative-AI image models.
$31M
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