Freeform is reinventing metal additive manufacturing with an AI-driven laser powder-bed fusion platform designed for high-volume production rather than prototyping. Its GoldenEye system uses 18 lasers with closed-loop AI control to fuse metal powder into precision components, and its next-generation Skyfall platform aims to deploy hundreds of lasers to produce thousands of kilograms of parts daily. Founded in 2018 by former SpaceX engineers Erik Palitsch and Thomas Ronacher near Los Angeles, Freeform raised a $67M Series B reported in February 2026 with investors including Founders Fund, NVIDIA's NVentures, Threshold Ventures and Two Sigma Ventures.
Freeform
ActiveAI-driven laser metal additive manufacturing at production scale
Total raised
$67M
1 round
Stage
Series B
Team
51-200
since 2018
Pricing
Freemium
free plan
Founded
2018
Hawthorne, United States
Agent-ready
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Multi-laser powder-bed fusion (GoldenEye)
Closed-loop AI process control
Real-time melt-pool monitoring
High-throughput Skyfall platform in development
Precision metal part production at scale
In-house metal additive manufacturing service
AI-driven defect reduction and quality assurance
10/100
Early
MCP server
Public API
Webhooks
OAuth 2.0
SDKs
No public agent surfaces detected yet.
— Series B $67M incl. AE Ventures +6
Capital network
$112M raised ·7 backers·10 network links
- Backers7
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- What does Freeform do?
- It runs an AI-controlled multi-laser metal 3D printing platform for mass production of precision metal parts.
- Who founded Freeform?
- Former SpaceX engineers Erik Palitsch and Thomas Ronacher in 2018.
- How much did Freeform raise?
- A $67M Series B reported in February 2026, with investors including Founders Fund and NVIDIA's NVentures.
- What is Skyfall?
- Freeform's next-generation platform aiming to use hundreds of lasers for thousands of kilograms of parts per day.
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