Black Forest Labs
Company
Key facts about this entity
Entity type: Company
Schema.org type: Corporation
Country: Germany
Headquarters: Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Founded: 2024
Co-founders: Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, Dominik Lorenz (with further co-founders from the former Stability AI research team)
Sector: Generative artificial intelligence — open and commercial text-to-image and image-editing models
Official website: https://blackforestlabs.ai
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blackforestlabs
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Forest_Labs
Entity Profile
Overview
Black Forest Labs is a German generative-artificial-intelligence company founded in 2024 by former members of the Stability AI research team, including Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann and Dominik Lorenz, that develops the FLUX family of text-to-image models and the Kontext image-editing model.
What it is
Black Forest Labs was founded in 2024 by Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, Dominik Lorenz and further co-founders from the former Stability AI research team. The company develops and releases generative artificial-intelligence models, including the FLUX text-to-image model family and the Kontext image-editing model, and operates from bases in Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich.
DACH relevance and Startuprad.io coverage
Black Forest Labs is one of the most prominent generative-AI companies founded in Germany and is a recurring reference in DACH coverage of foundation models, open-model releases and European tech sovereignty.
Public source context
Public information used for this record is drawn from its official https://blackforestlabs.ai and its https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Forest_Labs .
Startuprad.io coverage
Startuprad.io has published editorial coverage referencing Black Forest Labs:
DACH Startup News December 2025: Top Founders, Funding and Policy Updates
Published: 18 December 2025
Last updated: 14 August 2026
Coverage type: Editorial mention
URL: https://www.startuprad.io/post/this-month-in-german-swiss-and-austrian-startups-december-2025-top-news
DACH Startup News November 2025: AI Unicorns and Billion-Dollar Bets
Published: 27 November 2025
Last updated: 14 August 2026
Coverage type: Editorial mention
URL: https://www.startuprad.io/post/this-month-in-german-swiss-and-austrian-startups-november-2025-top-news
Europe's AI Supercluster: How DACH Startups Are Outpacing Silicon Valley
Published: 30 October 2025
Last updated: 14 August 2026
Coverage type: Editorial mention
URL: https://www.startuprad.io/post/europe-ai-supercluster
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