Flower - About the company
Flower is a series A company based in Hamburg (Germany), founded in 2023 by Daniel J Beutel and Nicholas Lane. It operates as a ML framework for federated learning. Flower has raised $24.1M in funding from investors like Y Combinator, Felicis Ventures and First Spark Ventures. The company has 271 active competitors, including 31 funded and 9 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Hugging Face, Replicate and Integrate.
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
- Email ID
- *****@flower.ai
- Phone Number
- +49 **********
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2023
Location
Hamburg, Germany
Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$24.1M in 3 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Investors
Ranked
3rd among 271 active competitors
Employee Count
84 as on Sep 30, 2026
Legal entities associated with Flower
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 | - | - |
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Flower's funding and investors
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 | |
2023 | 4427 | Seed | 5853 | 5584 | 2884 |
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Flower's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileHere 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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Flower's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of Flower include Hugging Face, Replicate and Integrate. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Flower, ranked by Tracxn score:
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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 | 78/100 | |
2nd | Replicate 2018, Berkeley (United States), Acquired | Provider of a cloud-based open-source platform for machine learning models | $57.8M | 69/100 | |
3rd | ML framework for federated learning | $24.1M | 62/100 | ||
4th | Provider of a federated AI platform for data evaluation solutions | $39.6M | 60/100 | ||
5th | Outerbounds 2021, San Francisco (United States), Acquired | AI-based open-source machine learning platform | $24M | 60/100 | |
6th | Oumi 2024, Seattle (United States), Seed | Open-source AI platform for model development and deployment | $10M | 57/100 | |
7th | Featureform 2020, United States, Acquired | Provider of AI-based open-source platform offering data orchestration | $8.1M | 55/100 | |
8th | Giotto Technologies 2017, Switzerland, Acquired | Developer of reasoning technology designed to advance artificial general intelligence | $5.02M | 54/100 | |
9th | FLock 2022, London (United Kingdom), Seed | Provider of a decentralized AI training and model-sharing platform based on blockchain technology | $11M | 54/100 | |
10th | All Hands AI 2024, Pittsburgh (United States), Seed | Open-source software development agent | $5M | 51/100 |
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Flower's Investments and acquisitions
Flower has made no investments or acquisitions yet.
Reports related to Flower
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News related to Flower
Media has covered Flower for 1 event in last 1 year, It was about company updates.
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Flower and Engie Sign 126-MW Battery Flexibility Deal in GermanyRenewables Now•Jun 22, 2026•Flower, Engie
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Achieving advanced AI models without a data center. A new era opened up by “distributed training”Wired•Aug 05, 2025•Flower
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Vana and Flower Labs Partner to Build the World’s First User-Owned AI ModelVana•May 15, 2025•Vana, Flower
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Developing advanced AI models without data centers: "Distributed training" opens up a new eraSankei•May 11, 2025•Flower
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Vana and Flower Labs Partner to Build the World's First User-Owned AI ModelNewswire•Mar 26, 2025•Flower, Vana Foundation
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Rhino Federated Computing and Flower Labs Partner to Accelerate Federated Learning Adoption Across IndustriesGlobeNewswire•Feb 24, 2025•Flower
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Artificial Intelligence Initiative Flower Labs received an investment of $ 20 million under the leadership of FelicisWebrazzi•Feb 16, 2024•Flower, Felicis Ventures, First Spark Ventures, Factorial and 7 others
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