Freeform has raised $67 million in a Series B round, with backing from Apandion, Founders Fund, Linse Capital, NVentures, Threshold Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, and AE Ventures.
Manufacturing has long lagged behind software. You can redesign a product in a week. Actually building complex metal parts can take months, with workflows that hop awkwardly between machines, vendors, and verification steps. Freeform’s pitch is that the problem is structural. Factories have been built as collections of tools. They should behave like integrated systems.
Led by Erik Palitsch, the company combines robotics, sensing, simulation, machine learning, control systems, and verification into a single coordinated platform. Instead of treating hardware, software, and physics as separate domains, Freeform designs them to operate as one stack.
The new funding will accelerate the rollout of “Skyfall,” Freeform's next generation factory platform set to go live sometime in the first half of 2026. Skyfall is described as the world’s fastest laser melting system, designed to produce thousands of kilograms of metal parts per day.
If it performs as promised, Skyfall could increase Freeform’s production capacity by more than 25 times and expand the range of supported materials by over 10 times. The broader ambition is to move toward automated, software defined factories that scale more like cloud infrastructure than traditional plants.
