📝 Flora raises $42M

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Flora, the "Cursor for creatives" that has quietly become the secret weapon for design powerhouses like Pentagram and Alibaba, has officially graduated from its alpha phase with a massive $42 million Series A funding round. Led by Redpoint Ventures and a "who’s who" of Silicon Valley—including the founders of Vercel and Twitch—this $52 million total war chest is aimed squarely at dethroning the traditional "one-pixel-at-a-time" paradigm of legacy suites like Adobe. Founded by former investor and artist Weber Wong, the platform utilizes a sophisticated node-based infinite canvas to orchestrate over 50 leading AI models, allowing users to branch, iterate, and automate complex generative workflows that connect text, image, and video in a single tractable flow. As the company prepares to triple its headcount and integrate traditional editing tools directly into its $16-a-month browser interface, the message to the industry is clear: the future of design isn't just about making one better image, but about building an entire "generative system of record" that makes creative output compound rather than reset.

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