Freeform
About
About Freeform
Freeform provides metal additive manufacturing through software-controlled printing factories. The company builds its own compute, sensors, controls and machine-learning software to monitor and adjust metal formation during production. Customers use the resulting manufacturing service for prototypes, qualification work and production parts across aerospace, defence, energy, transport and other engineering industries.
The system combines printing hardware with real-time sensing and feedback control, allowing process adjustments while a part is being made. Customers purchase manufacturing capacity and finished parts rather than having to operate the equipment themselves. Freeform is based in Los Angeles and was founded by former SpaceX engineers. Its autonomous factory technology is in commercial use, with expansion of production capacity and application-specific qualification continuing alongside customer programmes.
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Operations
Output & shipments
- Production setup
2026-02-19 - Freeform reported continuous production of mission-critical metal components and demand exceeding its available manufacturing capacity. - Autonomous metal additive manufacturing
Source
Funding
- 2026-02-19 - Series B - $67M - Freeform raises $67M Series B for autonomous metal manufacturing
Freeform closed a $67 million Series B to expand continuous-production capacity for its autonomous metal-manufacturing platform. - source: freeform.co
- 2024-10-22 - Strategic investment - $14M - Freeform secures NVIDIA and AE Ventures investment for AI metal printing
Freeform secured $14M strategic investment from NVIDIA NVentures and AE Ventures for AI-driven metal 3D printing. - source: prnewswire.com
Investors
- AE Ventures - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-10-22 - latest 2026-02-19
- Apandion - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-19
- Founders Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-19
- Linse Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-19
- NVentures - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-02-19
- NVIDIA NVentures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-10-22
- Threshold Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-19
- Two Sigma Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-19
- Valor Equity Partners - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-19
Team
- Erik Palitsch - CEO
- Tasso Lappas - Chief Scientific Officer
- TJ Ronacher - President and Co-founder
Timeline
Events
- 2026-02-19 - Funding - Freeform raises $67M Series B for autonomous metal manufacturing
Apandion and AE Ventures joined Founders Fund, Linse Capital, NVentures, Threshold Ventures and Two Sigma Ventures in the round. Freeform said demand for mission-critical production components was exceeding its available manufacturing capacity. The company planned to introduce its Skyfall production system in the first half of 2026.
Source - 2024-10-22 - Funding - Freeform secures NVIDIA and AE Ventures investment for AI metal printing
Freeform secured strategic investment from NVIDIA's NVentures and AE Ventures. The company said the investment supports AI-driven metal 3D printing for aerospace, automotive, and industrial production. The round preceded Freeform's later larger financing for scaling AI-native metal manufacturing.
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Context
Comparable profiles
- Divergent Technologies
comparable profile - AI Metal Additive Manufacturing
Context tags
- AI metal additive manufacturing - Peer Group - Freeform operates AI-driven metal additive manufacturing with real-time sensing and closed-loop process control; factories are background environment.
- Closed-loop metal printing - Workflow - Freeform operates AI-driven metal additive manufacturing with real-time sensing and closed-loop process control; factories are background environment.
- Metal additive manufacturing - Stack Layer - Freeform operates AI-driven metal additive manufacturing with real-time sensing and closed-loop process control; factories are background environment.
- Factories - Customer Environment - Freeform operates AI-driven metal additive manufacturing with real-time sensing and closed-loop process control; factories are background environment.