Company
Formlabs
Formlabs is a 3D printing company developing professional desktop SLA and SLS 3D printers, with over $250M in total funding.
- Founded
- 2011
- HQ
- Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
- Status
- active
Models
1
Overview
Formlabs is a 3D printing company developing professional desktop SLA and SLS 3D printers, with over $250M in total funding. Its Form 3 and Form 4 printers are industry leaders in professional 3D printing.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
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Key facts
Focus
Desktop and industrial 3D printer manufacturer
Technology
Acquired Voodoo Manufacturing for automated print farm technology
Founders
Max Lobovsky, David Cranor, Natan Linder (MIT Media Lab)
Total funding
$253M+
Valuation
>$1B
Revenue
~$226M
Key products
Form 4, Fuse 1
Data & sources
Web sources
1
1 source backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Safety record
No incidents on record for Formlabs.
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
Formlabs in third-party press
Large-Format SLS Printers - Trend Hunter
Industry Insights: Formlabs launches a massive new SLS already being used at Tesla's Gigafactory - A3 Association for Advancing Automation
VoxelMatters Review: Formlabs’ Tough 2000 V2 resin shows how tough the Form 4 really is - VoxelMatters
Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- ATI Industrial Automation2 models
- August Robotics2 models
- Embodied2 models
- EverestLabs2 models
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
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.
Sources (1)
Common questions
- What is Formlabs?
- Formlabs is a 3D printing company developing professional desktop SLA and SLS 3D printers, with over $250M in total funding. Its Form 3 and Form 4 printers are industry leaders in professional 3D printing.
- What does Formlabs make?
- Formlabs has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: Form 4 (Formlabs builds physical robots).
- Is Formlabs publicly traded?
- Formlabs is not an independent public company; it has been acquired, per the DEPLOY registry.
- Who competes with Formlabs?
- On the DEPLOY registry, peer companies to Formlabs building in the same form factors include DJI, Boston Dynamics, ATI Industrial Automation, August Robotics.
- Where is Formlabs headquartered?
- Formlabs is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA.
- Where does Formlabs operate robots?
- Formlabs 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 Formlabs a top robotics company?
- On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Formlabs ranks in roughly the top 48% of companies tracked by the registry.
- When was Formlabs founded?
- Formlabs was founded in 2011.
- Is Formlabs safe?
- Formlabs 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 · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-07
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-07
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Formlabs.Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- ATI Industrial Automation2 models
- August Robotics2 models
- Embodied2 models
- EverestLabs2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Formlabs from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Large-Format SLS Printers - Trend Hunter
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Industry Insights: Formlabs launches a massive new SLS already being used at Tesla's Gigafactory - A3 Association for Advancing Automation
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VoxelMatters Review: Formlabs’ Tough 2000 V2 resin shows how tough the Form 4 really is - VoxelMatters
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Newly public Merlin taps ex-Formlabs brand leader as CMO - Stock Titan
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New Materials and Curing Unit at Formlabs - 3DPrint.com
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Formlabs CEO Max Lobovsky Receives AMUG Innovators Award for Advancing 3D Printing Industry - Design News
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Formlabs’s Tough 1500 Resin Uplevels 3DP Injection Molding - Design News
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TIME's Best Inventions of 2024: Media Lab honorees - MIT Media Lab
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First Autonomous Robotic Scientist Hits Labs as Tetsuwan Scientific Secures $2.7M - SynBioBeta
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Exclusive: Formlabs acquires 3D printing startup Micronics mid-Kickstarter campaign - TechCrunch
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From NASA to MIT to Formlabs - MIT News
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The Unmissable Highlights From CES 2024 - Forbes
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/formlabs.md
- RSS feed: /companies/formlabs/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/07ed76ac-2a35-45b9-b935-50b758a1cb4c
- Revision history: /companies/formlabs/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- ATI Industrial Automation2 models
- August Robotics2 models
- Embodied2 models
- EverestLabs2 models
Reality vs attention
Formlabs draws attention at the 65th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among other robots.
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: Jul 14, 2026