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Startup ecosystem in Freiburg

Local startups, investors, and operators based in Freiburg, Germany.

4 entries.

Alithea Bio

Freiburg, Germany · Startup

Accelerates cancer immunotherapy development with its HLA-Compass platform, a large quantitative database of HLA peptide presentation. AI-driven analytics predict off-target toxicity and support target discovery for safer, more precise therapies.

Black Forest Labs

Freiburg, Germany · Startup

Black Forest Labs is a German AI research lab focused on generative visual intelligence, describing itself as a frontier lab for models that understand, reason, and act in the world. It is best known for the FLUX family of image generation models, offered via a playground, an API, and open-weights releases on platforms like Hugging Face and GitHub. The FLUX models have been widely adopted across open-source and enterprise platforms. In December 2025 the company raised a $300M Series B at a $3.25B post-money valuation, co-led by Salesforce Ventures and AMP, with participation from a16z, NVIDIA and others.

Robin Rombach

Freiburg, Germany · Person

German AI researcher and entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Black Forest Labs, a Freiburg-based generative-AI lab focused on image and video models. He was previously a research director at Stability AI and, during his PhD at LMU Munich, played a key role in developing the latent diffusion models behind Stable Diffusion.

SPEZI 2026 (Spezialradmesse)

Freiburg, Germany · Event

Europe's leading special bike trade fair at Freiburg Messe with 15,000+ visitors and 250+ exhibitors covering cargo bikes, e-cargo, recumbents, and micro-logistics hardware. Day tickets about EUR 15-25. Valuable for urban logistics, last-mile delivery, and mobility-hardware startups seeking fleet buyers and European distributors.