About Flower Labs
Flower Labs is the world-class AI startup behind Flower, the most popular open-source framework and ecosystem in the world for training AI on distributed data and compute resources using federated learning. Trusted by industry leaders such as Mozilla, Banking Circle, Samsung, Temenos and Bosch, Flower empowers organizations to improve their AI models on sensitive data that remains securely distributed across organizational silos or user devices. In a world where most AI relies on centralized public datasets - just a fraction of the data available - we believe unlocking access to (orders of magnitude more) private data will drive the next breakthroughs in artificial intelligence.
Flower Labs is a Y Combinator (YCW23) graduate and backed by top-tier investors and renowned angels, including Felicis, First Spark Ventures, Mozilla Ventures, Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue, GitHub Co-Founder Scott Chacon, Factorial Capital, Betaworks, and Pioneer Fund. Together, we are redefining how AI is built, deployed, and scaled for privacy, collaboration, and real-world impact.
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$23.6M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
Founders
Taner Topal
Taner is one of the creators of Flower, the first fully agnostic federated learning framework, which is now being used at many Fortune 500 companies and most top universities worldwide. He previously held roles as Head of Engineering and CTO in two prior startups. Some companies using products he helped build include Porsche, Lufthansa, and Vattenfall. Taner is also a Visiting Researcher at the University of Cambridge.
LinkedInDaniel J. Beutel
CS PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge with an MSc from the University of Oxford. Previously held roles as Head of AI and CTO. One of the original creators of the Flower federated learning framework.
LinkedInNicholas Lane
Full Professor in Machine Learning Systems at the University of Cambridge. Previously on faculty at Oxford and UCL, and co-founder and Head of the Samsung AI Center in Cambridge. Has 12+ years of industrial research experience including Microsoft Research and Nokia Bell Labs.
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