# Flower Labs

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/flower-labs

- Industry: Internet
- Headquarters: Hamburg, Germany
- Website: www.flower.ai
- Total disclosed funding: $24M
- Latest round: Series A (Feb 15, 2024)
- Investors on record: 7

## About

Based in Hamburg, Germany, and founded in 2023, Flower Labs GmbH operates as an internet company that offers a federated learning framework for training artificial intelligence on distributed data. The company was Co-founded by Nicholas Lane, Daniel J. Beutel, and Taner Topel. In February 2024, Flower Labs GmbH raised USD 20 million in series A funding led by new investor Felicis Ventures, with participation from other investors Mozilla Ventures and Y Combinator along with the participation of investors First Spark Ventures, Factorial Capital, Betaworks Ventures Management, Pioneer Fund.

The firm offers an online platform that provides an open-source framework for machines and any programming language. The platform is used to collaborate on model training and can be used by industries such as telecommunications, healthcare, finance, automotive, and personal computing. It could be used with machine learning frameworks such as Tensorflow, Pytorch, and HuggingFace.

Flower Labs GmbH plans to use the February 2024 funding to develop a platform that would enhance the simplicity of federated AI solutions by integrating with the open-source framework.

## Funding rounds

- Series A, Feb 15, 2024, $20M — Felicis Ventures, Betaworks Ventures Management, Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Factorial Funds, First Spark Ventures, Mozilla Ventures
- Seed, Aug 4, 2023, $3.6M — Betaworks Ventures Management, Pioneer Fund, Factorial Funds, First Spark Ventures
- Seed, Mar 16, 2023 — Pioneer Fund

## Investors

- Pioneer Fund (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/pioneer-fund) — Seed, Series A
- Betaworks Ventures Management (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/betaworks-ventures-management) — Seed, Series A
- Factorial Funds (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/factorial-funds) — Seed, Series A
- First Spark Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/first-spark-ventures) — Seed, Series A
- Felicis Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/felicis-ventures) — Series A
- Y Combinator (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/y-combinator) — Series A
- Mozilla Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/mozilla-ventures) — Series A