Company

Contour Crafting

Contour Crafting is a Construction 3D printing technology company spun from USC research, developing robotic construction systems for automated building…

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HQ: Los Angeles, California, USA
Status: Private

CategoryConstruction robots

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Regional ecosystem

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Key facts

Focus

Large-scale 3D printing for construction

Technology

Automated building printing technology

Origin

Technology derived from USC research

Construction-scale robotic printing

Contour Crafting describes deployable construction-scale 3D printing systems for buildings, infrastructure, and defense applications (Contour Crafting systems).

D-Crafter mobile printer

Contour Crafting presents D-Crafter as a self-mobile, rover-style construction printer designed for field deployment (D-Crafter).

Data & sources

Web sources

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Models (1)

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Current platform

Contour Crafting Printer

Contour Crafting 3D printing robot for construction of buildings.

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Partnerships

Every company Contour Crafting has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

2 total2 operating

Most-frequent partners

1Doka Ventures1× joint
2Quikrete1× joint

Most recent

Contour Crafting x Doka Ventures2017-06-09
with Doka Venturesoperating

Contour Crafting on the deployment map

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Relationships

QQuikreteCo-developerDDoka VenturesInvestor

Current leadership (2)

Reynaldo Santana Presidentsecondary-verified
Behrokh Khoshnevis Foundersecondary-verified

Founders (1)

Behrokh Khoshnevisno longer at company

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Safety record

No incidents on record for Contour Crafting.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

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Recent coverage

Contour Crafting in third-party press

Construction Technology for Moon and Mars Exploration

May 13, 2025

Need Help Building a Moon Base? USC Viterbi Researchers Partner with NASA

Aug 17, 2022

Contour Crafting Will Develop Concrete 3D Printer for Disaster Relief, Thanks to DoD Contract

Aug 17, 2018

Peer companies

Mentioned on (2)

Registry pages whose text names Contour Crafting.

Robots and products (1)

Contour Crafting Printer

People (1)

Behrokh Khoshnevis

Partnerships

2 total · 2 operating

Every company Contour Crafting has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

Most recent

Contour Crafting x Doka Ventures2017-06-09
with Doka Venturesoperating

Most-frequent partners

1Doka Ventures1× joint
2Quikrete1× joint

All 2 partnerships

open in the atlas →

Contour Crafting x Quikrete (Concrete 3D Printing)
withQuikrete
development—
operating
Contour Crafting x Doka Ventures
withDoka Ventures
investment2017-06-09
operating

Timeline

Every recorded move in Contour Crafting’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.

PartnershipContour Crafting x Doka Ventures
2017-06-09
Contour Crafting Corporation announced a partnership with and investment from Doka Ventures taking a 30 percent stake in CC Corp. The Austrian investment firm partnered to industrialize and bring construction-scale 3D printing technology to market.

Recent activity

Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.

Record createdJun 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry

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Sources (3)

Common questions

What is Contour Crafting?

Contour Crafting is a Construction 3D printing technology company spun from USC research, developing robotic construction systems for automated building fabrication.

What does Contour Crafting make?

Contour Crafting has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: Contour Crafting Printer (Contour Crafting builds both physical robots and the AI that runs them).

Is Contour Crafting publicly traded?

No. Contour Crafting is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.

Who competes with Contour Crafting?

On the DEPLOY registry, peer companies to Contour Crafting building in the same form factors include Advanced Construction Robotics, August Robotics, Gritt, PaintJet.

Who is the CEO of Contour Crafting?

Reynaldo Santana is the president of Contour Crafting, per the DEPLOY registry.

How can I invest in Contour Crafting?

Contour Crafting is a private company; its shares are not available on public markets, so retail investors cannot buy the stock today.

Where is Contour Crafting headquartered?

Contour Crafting is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Who owns Contour Crafting?

Contour Crafting is privately held; ownership sits with its founders and private investors.

Where does Contour Crafting operate robots?

Contour Crafting is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

Is Contour Crafting a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Contour Crafting ranks in roughly the top 93% of companies tracked by the registry.

Is Contour Crafting safe?

Contour Crafting has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.

Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-21

Verification posture

Verified

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-10-21

Sources by quality tier

3: unclassified; Unclassified source

The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.

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Key facts

Data & sources

Models (1)

Contour Crafting Printer

Partnerships

Contour Crafting on the deployment map

Relationships

Current leadership (2)

Founders (1)

Safety record

Recent coverage

Peer companies

Mentioned on (2)

Partnerships

All 2 partnerships

Timeline

Recent activity

Sources (3)

Common questions

Peer companies

In the press

Construction Technology for Moon and Mars Exploration

Need Help Building a Moon Base? USC Viterbi Researchers Partner with NASA

Contour Crafting Will Develop Concrete 3D Printer for Disaster Relief, Thanks to DoD Contract

This giant robot could help solve the housing crisis

Contour Crafting’s 3D-Printing Tech Can Build Homes On-Site in Under 24 Hours

Robots Build Large Structures With Brick and Concrete

From Earth to the Moon, Technology Makes Automatic House Construction Possible

The Contour Crafting robot prints a house in 24 hours

The Robot That Can Print a Real House in 24 Hours

Researchers Are Making A 3D Printer That Can Build A House In 24 Hours

3-D printing an entire house in less than 20 hours – is this the future?

"Contour Crafting" which uses a huge 3D printer to build a house in 20 hours

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