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Desktop Metal

Consumer Services · Burlington, United States · Founded 2015 · IPO 2019

Desktop Metal is reinventing the way design and manufacturing teams print with metal

Valuation $275M
Revenue $149M
Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Talent graph

Desktop Metal's talent

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Key operators Hidden — book a demo quality score
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 11 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

27 investors on Desktop Metal's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series A 5 investors entered at this stage
Founder Collective
Bolt
NEA
Lux Capital
Kleiner Perkins
Series B+ 22 investors entered at this stage
BMW i Ventures
Panasonic
Vertex Ventures US
GE Ventures
GV
BloombergNEF
Saudi Aramco
Shenzhen Capital Group
Koch Industries
GRIDS Capital
DCVC
Stratasys
Chang Corporation
Future Fund
Koch Disruptive Technologies
Lowe's Ventures
Bolt Innovation Group
Tupancy Capital
Tyche Partners
Aramco Ventures
Saints Capital
Ford Motor

Desktop Metal mafia

Startups founded by Desktop Metal alumni

Former Desktop Metal employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

VulcanFormsEst. 2015
A. John HartUnited States
Signal score94
Kodama SystemsEst. 2021
MVMatt VerminskiUnited States
Signal score89
LumafieldEst. 2019
Ric FulopUnited States
Signal score83
Foundation AlloysEst. 2022
Chris SchuhUnited States
Signal score82
Form EnergyEst. 2017
Yet-Ming ChiangUnited States
Signal score74
CubicPVEst. 2021
Emanuel M. SachsUnited States
Signal score72
Fluent MetalEst. 2020
Matthew McCambridgeUnited States
Signal score70
Sublime SystemsEst. 2020
Yet Ming ChiangUnited States
Signal score64
Landsdowne LabsEst. 2015
JMJonah MyerbergUnited States
Signal score63
Allium EngineeringEst. 2020
Steven JepealUnited States
Signal score62
Alloy EnterprisesEst. 2020
NMNicholas MykulowyczUnited States
Signal score59

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Global footprint

Where Desktop Metal has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
16 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States81.2%
🇩🇪 Germany3.2%
🇫🇷 France3.2%
🇮🇹 Italy1.9%
🇭🇰 Hong Kong1.7%
Top 5 of 16 shown
Web traffic by country
24K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States28.7%
🇨🇦 Canada10%
🇦🇺 Australia7.9%
🇮🇳 India7.5%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom7.1%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$87M patent portfolio · 155 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$87M
31.8% of market cap · 2.8× larger than top peer Matterport ($31M)
155 active patent families
Where Desktop Metal innovates Mechanical engineeringPhysics3 dimensional printing3D printingAdditive layer manufacturing

Where Desktop Metal concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Desktop Metal and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

Desktop Metal's 6 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Desktop Metal appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2020–2021. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

6 deals across Desktop Metal's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

By sectorCount
    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        Where Desktop Metal deploys vs peers

        Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.

        Compare against

        02 · Portfolio market map

        Desktop Metal's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

        Stage
        Period
        6 of 6 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Desktop Metal

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Desktop Metal on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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