Overview
- The round was co-led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha’s AMP with participation from a16z, NVIDIA, Temasek, Bain Capital Ventures, General Catalyst, Northzone, Creandum, and others.
- Black Forest Labs says the capital will accelerate research, hiring, and infrastructure as it advances its FLUX model family, including the recently released FLUX.2.
- FLUX.2 is promoted for improved text and image rendering, the use of up to 10 reference images to preserve style, and image generation at resolutions up to 4K.
- The company reports its models rank among the leading text-to-image systems on Hugging Face with tens of millions of downloads and are integrated by platforms such as Adobe, Picsart, ElevenLabs, VSCO, fal.ai, and Vercel.
- The financing follows a previously unannounced Series A led by a16z and lifts total funding to more than $450 million.