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Black Forest Labs Raises USD 300 Million Series B

VCXpress Editorial Team
calendar_today12/1/2025
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  • Black Forest Labs closed a USD 300 million Series B round. The deal put the post-money valuation at USD 3.25 billion. The money will go toward faster research and development.
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Black Forest Labs Raises USD 300 Million Series B
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Black Forest Labs closed a USD 300 million Series B round. The deal put the post-money valuation at USD 3.25 billion. The money will go toward faster research and development.

Funding details: USD 300 million (Series B)

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Black Forest Labs just raised USD 300 million in Series B funding.


The round was co-led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP). New backers include Temasek, Bain Capital Ventures, Air Street Capital, Visionaries Club, and Canva and Figma Ventures. Existing investors stepped up too, including a16z, NVIDIA, Northzone, Creandum, Earlybird VC, BroadLight Capital, and General Catalyst.


The cash will help speed up work on new models.

The team said they want to build systems that go beyond simple prompts. Ones that mix visual perception, generation, memory, and reasoning.


Black Forest Labs makes frontier AI models for images and visuals. Their FLUX models are used by millions and lead on platforms like Hugging Face. The company runs from Freiburg and San Francisco.


The news comes straight from a blog post on Black Forest Labs.

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