Founded in 2018 by former SpaceX engineers Erik Palitsch and Thomas Ronacher, Freeform has built a proprietary metal additive-manufacturing system that fuses powdered metals with arrays of high-power lasers. Its current GoldenEye machine uses 18 lasers, while the forthcoming Skyfall platform will deploy hundreds of lasers to print thousands of kilograms of parts per day. The system is deeply integrated with real-time physics simulations and sensor feedback, leveraging on-premise Nvidia H200 GPU clusters to optimize every print layer and gather extensive process data. This AI-native approach is intended to raise throughput and part quality while lowering cost, enabling manufacturing-as-a-service for aerospace, defense and other mission-critical sectors. Although specific customers are undisclosed, the company says it is already shipping hundreds of certified parts and holds a sizable contract backlog. With fresh capital, Freeform plans to expand its facility, upgrade to Skyfall, and hire roughly 100 employees. PitchBook pegs the post-financing valuation at $179 million, though the company has not confirmed that figure.

Total raised

$126M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Feb 2026