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FLORA Raises $42M to Build Unified Creative Environment for Generative Era

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FLORA Raises $42M to Build Unified Creative Environment for Generative Era
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FLORA Raises $42M to Build Unified Creative Environment for Generative Era

2026-01-27 22:04 Last Updated At:22:10

BROOKLYN, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 27, 2026--

FLORA, the creative technology company pioneering a new category for generative workflows, announced today it has raised $42M in a Series A funding round to build the creative environment for a generative era, bringing total funding up to $52M. This round of funding was led by Alex Bard and Jordan Segall at Redpoint Ventures, with participation from CEOs of Vercel, Frame.io and the three co-founders of Fal, Gorkem Yurtseven, Burkay Gur and Batuhan Taskaya. Existing investors include former GP of Index, Mike Volpi at Hanabi, Menlo Ventures, a16z Games, Long Journey Ventures, Twitch founder Justin Kan, Cyan Banister, Factorial’s Matt Hartman and MSCHF founder Gabe Whaley.

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FLORA launched in February 2025 and unifies the top AI text, image and video models into one powerful environment, allowing creative teams to build reusable systems that drive the entire process. Creative work and concepting cycles that once required weeks of manual iteration is now compressed into days, without compromising quality or control. Teams can now build libraries of reusable systems that generate on-brand variations in minutes, and allow creative output to compound, not reset.

Weber Wong, Founder and CEO of FLORA, says, “Our thesis is simple - preserve creative intent while accelerating workflows. Creative professionals don’t want toys, they want power tools. I started building FLORA for my own art practice, a system that gave me speed without sacrificing control - something made by creatives, for creatives. We believe the future belongs to world class AI-literate teams and FLORA makes that possible."

FLORA’s user base includes creatives at global teams like Pentagram, Lionsgate, MSCHF, Red Antler, AKQA, Levi’s and more, spanning fashion and beauty, brand, marketing, design and film/VFX. By enabling teams to leverage reusable workflows, FLORA accelerates production - brand sprints that took months have shrunk to weeks and briefs convert to production-ready campaigns in just a few days.

"FLORA represents a meaningful shift in how creative work gets done. Weber and the team uniquely blend rigorous engineering and business thinking with real creative taste, and that combination shows up clearly in the product,” said Alex Bard, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures. “By enabling creatives to encode creative judgment and taste directly into workflows, FLORA is building a unified environment that improves with use and compounds quality over time. We believe this is an architectural change in creative tooling, not an incremental one, and we’re excited to partner with Weber and the FLORA team as they define the creative operating system for the generative era.”

This influx of capital will allow FLORA to continue building up its sales team, as well as engineering team to expand its environment with professional-grade editing, an intelligent workflow assistant and codified creative processes, accelerating toward the creative system for generative computing.

About FLORA

FLORA is a creative environment for generative workflows used by the world’s top creative teams. By unifying models, assets, workflows, and professional editing tools into a single environment, FLORA enables creative teams to move faster than ever, preserve creative intent, and build reusable creative systems. Founded in Brooklyn, New York, FLORA is backed by Redpoint Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Hanabi, a16z Games, and leading operators across technology and design. Learn more atFLORA.ai

FLORA brings the top generative models across video, image and text into one intuitive environment. Teams can connect models, explore their creative process faster than ever, and codify it into repeatable systems that scale. It’s intuitive enough for anyone to use, with professional-grade control when it matters most.

FLORA brings the top generative models across video, image and text into one intuitive environment. Teams can connect models, explore their creative process faster than ever, and codify it into repeatable systems that scale. It’s intuitive enough for anyone to use, with professional-grade control when it matters most.

MILAN (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will have a security role during the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Games, according to information shared with local media by sources at the U.S. Embassy in Rome. The Associated Press independently confirmed the information with two officials at the embassy.

The officials who confirmed ICE participation on Tuesday said that federal ICE agents would support diplomatic security details and would not run any immigration enforcement operations.

During previous Olympics, several federal agencies have supported security for U.S. diplomats, including the investigative component of ICE called Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the officials said. They could not be named because they are not authorized to speak publicly.

HSI has a global footprint, and it’s common for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide security support at major international events.

The State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service does this as well, routinely supporting events like the Olympics. The use of U.S. law enforcement agencies in these contexts isn’t unusual. During the 2016 Rio Olympics, the Transportation Security Administration deployed officers to assist with airport screening due to the surge in visitors and the potential threat of attacks.

Citing images of masked ICE agents that have dominated coverage of unrest in Minneapolis, Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said that ICE would not be welcome in his city, which is hosting most ice sports during the Feb. 6-22 Winter Games.

"This is a militia that kills, a militia that enters into the homes of people, signing their own permission slips. It is clear they are not welcome in Milan, without a doubt,'' Sala told RTL Radio 102 before ICE's deployment to the Games was confirmed.

ICE's role had been reported over the weekend by the Italian daily il Fatto Quotidiano, prompting conflicting statements from Italian authorities who did not want to appear to confirm the agency's role.

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said Saturday he had not received confirmation of ICE's deployment, but added that "I don't see what the problem would be,'' the news agency ANSA reported.

The Interior Ministry on Tuesday repeated that the U.S. has not confirmed the makeup of its security detail but insisted that “at the moment there are no indications that ICE USA will act as an escort to the American delegation."

U.S. Vice President JD Vance will lead a delegation attending the Feb. 6 opening ceremony. The delegation will also include second lady Usha Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the White House announced earlier this month.

The confirmation of ICE's role in Olympic security comes after RAI state TV aired video Sunday of ICE agents threatening to break the glass on the vehicle of a RAI crew reporting in Minneapolis, where ICE operations have sparked mass demonstrations. In the past three weeks, federal officers in Minneapolis have shot and killed two protesters against deportations and immigration enforcement.

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AP writer Colleen Barry in Milan contributed.

FILE - Milan's mayor Giuseppe Sala attends Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics cauldron lighting, in front of the Quirinale Presidential Palace, in Rome, Friday Dec. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

FILE - Milan's mayor Giuseppe Sala attends Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics cauldron lighting, in front of the Quirinale Presidential Palace, in Rome, Friday Dec. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

FILE - Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi waits for U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, at the Viminale Interior Ministry headquarters, Friday, May 23, 2025, in Rome. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool, File)

FILE - Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi waits for U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, at the Viminale Interior Ministry headquarters, Friday, May 23, 2025, in Rome. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool, File)

FILE - This photo shows the snowboarding and freestyle skiing events which will take place during the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in Livigno, Italy, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti, File)

FILE - This photo shows the snowboarding and freestyle skiing events which will take place during the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in Livigno, Italy, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti, File)

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