Black Forest Labs Funding History

Black Forest Labs develops FLUX, a family of models that generate images from text. Its founders include researchers who worked on latent diffusion and Stable Diffusion.

Company Overview

  • Image Creation

Founded 2024 · Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Official Website

Black Forest Labs Funding Timeline

  1. Dec 1, 2025

    Series B

    US$300 million

    Led by Salesforce Ventures.

    Source · tech.eu ↗
  2. Aug 15, 2024

Black Forest Labs Founding Team

  • Robin Rombach

    Co-founder of Black Forest Labs.

    Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-04
  • Andreas Blattmann

    Co-founder of Black Forest Labs.

    Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-04
  • Patrick Esser

    Co-founder of Black Forest Labs.

    Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-04

Black Forest Labs Products

Applications, APIs and Tools

  • BFL.AI

    Platform from Black Forest Labs offering its FLUX text-to-image models in multiple sizes, with API access, multi-reference editing controls and open-weight variants.

    Official Website ↗
    Details and Sources
    Status: activeReviewed: 2026-10-14

Models

FLUX

Black Forest Labs' FLUX image-model family spans text-to-image generation, image editing and reference-guided workflows, with hosted API variants and selected open-weight releases.

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Details and Sources
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-10-24
Recorded Versions · 3
FLUX.1

Text-to-image model version from Black Forest Labs, offered in pro, dev and open-weight schnell variants.

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Details and Sources
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-10-14
FLUX 1.1 Pro

Image generation model version from Black Forest Labs, released alongside the BFL API and succeeding FLUX.1 [pro].

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Details and Sources
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-10-14
FLUX.2

Image generation and editing model from Black Forest Labs; the open-weight FLUX.2 [dev] variant covers generation and editing.

Parameters
32B (FLUX.2 [dev] variant)(2026-10-14)
Parameters
4B (FLUX.2 [klein] variant; ~13GB VRAM, sub-second generation)(2026-06-23)
Official Website ↗
Details and Sources
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-10-14
License
Apache 2.0 for FLUX.2 [klein] 4B open-weight models (incl. 4B Base); FLUX.2 [klein] 9B variants use the FLUX Non-Commercial License (FLUX NCL)(2026-06-23)

Sources:bfl.aibfl.ai