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Regional ecosystem
Formant is one of 433 verified robotics companies in California →
Key facts
Headquarters
Founded
Status
Type
Data & sources
Press releases
1
1 source backing this record.View all →
Partnerships
Every company Formant has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- with Holmanoperating
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Jeff Linnell CEO & Founder
Founders (1)
- Jeff Linnellsole
Safety record
No incidents on record for Formant.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Formant in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- unknown
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
3 total · 3 operating
Every company Formant has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- with Holmanoperating
All 3 partnerships
open in the atlas →- formant x awswithAWS976technology—operating
- formant x nvidiawithNVIDIA1110technology—operating
- deployment2024-10-31operating
Timeline
Every recorded move in Formant’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipFormant x Holman (Robot Fleet Management)
2024-10-31Formant announced a strategic commercial partnership with Holman, a global automotive services provider, combining Formant's cloud robotics platform with Holman's fleet management and automotive expertise to address the convergence of robotics and fleet management.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 9, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Formant.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Formant from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/formant.md
- RSS feed: /companies/formant/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/8d1428d8-547f-4a7a-9dc1-22b4a84f632c
- Revision history: /companies/formant/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Serious56/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Formant against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 26, 2026