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354 Used by Adobe, Canva and Meta, Germany’s Black Forest Labs lands €258 million to scale its visual-AI platform

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David Cendon Garcia @ EU-Startups 2 place · 12/01/2025 04:14 EDT

Used by Adobe, Canva and Meta, Germany’s Black Forest Labs lands €258 million to scale its visual-AI platform

Freigburg-based Black Forest Labs, the visual intelligence company behind FLUX, today announced a €258 million ($300 million) Series B in order to accelerate research and development, hiring, and infrastructure efforts as the team advances its flagship model family – including the recently released FLUX.2 The round was led by AMP and Salesforce Ventures, at a ...

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