When was Flower founded?

Flower was founded in 2023 and raised its 1st funding round within a year of its incorporation.

Where is Flower located?

Flower is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

Who is the current CEO of Flower?

Daniel J Beutel of Flower. They have also founded 1 company.

How many employees does Flower have?

As of Sep 30, 2026, the latest employee count at Flower is 84.

Is Flower a funded company?

Flower is a funded company, having raised a total of $24.1M across 3 funding rounds to date. The company's 1st funding round was a $***** Seed round, raised on 2023.

When was the latest funding round of Flower?

Flower's latest funding was a $***** Series A round on Feb 16, 2024, with participation from 9 investors.

Where does Flower rank among its competitors?

Flower ranks 3rd amongst 271 active competitors, of which 31 are funded. It stands 4th in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was Oumi, which secured $10M in Jan, 2025.

Who are the top competitors of Flower?

Flower's top competitors include Hugging Face, Replicate and Integrate. Among them, Oumi secured the most recent funding round in January, 2025.

Flower - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors

Company Details

ML framework for federated learning. It provides a framework for federated learning, analytics, and evaluation. It enables users to federate workloads, and programming languages. The platform supports framework such as pytorch, tensorflow, pandas, and more.

Website: flower.ai
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Email ID: *****@flower.ai
Phone Number: +49 **********
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Founded Year

2023

Location

Hamburg, Germany

Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$24.1M in 3 rounds

Latest Funding Round

Series A, Feb 16, 2024, $*****

Investors

Y Combinator & 8 more

Ranked

3^rd among 271 active competitors

Employee Count

84 as on Sep 30, 2026

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Flower is associated with 2 legal entities given below:

Legal Entity Name	Date of Incorporation	Revenue	Latest Employee Count	Reports
FLOWER LABS INC. CIN: 7169382 , United States, Active	Jan 31, 2023	-	-	-
Flower Labs GmbH CIN: HRB160919 , Germany, Active	Jan 20, 2020	-	-

Flower has raised a total funding of $24.1M over 3 rounds. Its first funding round was on 2023. Its latest funding round was a Series A round on Feb 16, 2024 for $*****. 9 investors participated in its latest round. Flower has 7 institutional investors and 2 angel investors.

Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Flower:

Date of Funding	Funding Amount	Round Name	Post-Money Valuation	Revenue Multiple	Lead Investors	Other Investors
Feb 16, 2024	3577426	Series A	6316864	1986533	9507481	6403115
Aug 04, 2023	1508930	Seed	4815788	6499496	2170956	Pioneer Fund & 2 more
2023	4427	Seed	5853	5584	Y Combinator	2884

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The founders of Flower are Daniel J Beutel and Nicholas Lane. Daniel J Beutel is the CEO of Flower.

Here are the details of Flower's key team members:

Daniel J Beutel: Co-Founder & CEO of Flower.
Contact Info: 1 email address
Nicholas Lane: Co-Founder of Flower and founder of 1 other company.

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Flower's employee count trend

Flower has 84 employees as of Sep 26. Here is Flower's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of Flower include Hugging Face, Replicate and Integrate. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Flower, ranked by Tracxn score:

Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	Tracxn Score
1st	Hugging Face 2016, Paris (France), Acquired	Platform offering collaborative tools for sharing and deploying machine learning models	$400M	Lux Capital, Salesforce & 33 others	78/100
2nd	Replicate 2018, Berkeley (United States), Acquired	Provider of a cloud-based open-source platform for machine learning models	$57.8M	Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator & 9 others	69/100
3rd	Flower 2023, Hamburg (Germany), Series A	ML framework for federated learning	$24.1M	Felicis Ventures, Pioneer Fund & 7 others	62/100
4th	Integrate 2017, Toronto (Canada), Series A	Provider of a federated AI platform for data evaluation solutions	$39.6M	Georgian, Real Ventures & 6 others	60/100
5th	Outerbounds 2021, San Francisco (United States), Acquired	AI-based open-source machine learning platform	$24M	Amplify Partners, Foundation Capital & 2 others	60/100
6th	Oumi 2024, Seattle (United States), Seed	Open-source AI platform for model development and deployment	$10M	Obvious Ventures, Venrock & 2 others	57/100
7th	Featureform 2020, United States, Acquired	Provider of AI-based open-source platform offering data orchestration	$8.1M	Zetta Venture Partners, GreatPoint Ventures ... & 3 others	55/100
8th	Giotto Technologies 2017, Switzerland, Acquired	Developer of reasoning technology designed to advance artificial general intelligence	$5.02M	Faster Capital, Park House Partners	54/100
9th	FLock 2022, London (United Kingdom), Seed	Provider of a decentralized AI training and model-sharing platform based on blockchain technology	$11M	Digital Currency Group, Tagus Capital & 11 others	54/100
10th	All Hands AI 2024, Pittsburgh (United States), Seed	Open-source software development agent	$5M	Menlo Ventures, Pillar VC & 6 others	51/100