Freeform raises $67M Series B to scale up laser AI manufacturing 

Freeform, a company specializing in laser-based metal 3D printing, has raised $67 million in a Series B funding round led by investors including Apandion, AE Ventures, Founders Fund, Linse Capital, Nvidia’s NVentures, Threshold Ventures, and Two Sigma Ventures. The company’s post-financing valuation is reported by Pitchbook to be $179 million. Founded in 2018 by former SpaceX engineers Erik Palitsch and Thomas Ronacher, Freeform aims to revolutionize metal manufacturing by building a highly scalable, AI-native platform that uses advanced software controls and real-time physics-based simulations to improve production quality and throughput. Freeform’s current GoldenEye system employs 18 lasers to fuse metal powders into precision components, but the new Skyfall platform will scale this up dramatically by using hundreds of lasers to produce thousands of kilograms of metal parts daily. The company emphasizes its unique integration of high-performance computing, including on-site H200 GPU clusters, to continuously optimize the manufacturing process