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Desktop Metal
Desktop Metal is reinventing the way design and manufacturing teams print with metal
At a glance
- Founded
- 2015
- Headquarters
- Burlington, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2019
- Sector
- Consumer Services
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A5 investors entered at this stage
Series B and later22 investors entered at this stage
- BVBMW i Ventures
- PAPanasonic
- VUVertex Ventures US
- GVGE Ventures
GV- BLBloombergNEF
- SASaudi Aramco
Shenzhen Capital Group- KIKoch Industries
- GCGRIDS Capital
DCVC- STStratasys
- CCChang Corporation
- FFFuture Fund
- KTKoch Disruptive Technologies
- LVLowe's Ventures
- BGBolt Innovation Group
- TCTupancy Capital
- TPTyche Partners
- AVAramco Ventures
- SCSaints Capital
- FMFord Motor
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Desktop Metal employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
VUVulcanFormsEst. 2015
A. John HartUnited States
LULumafieldEst. 2019
Ric FulopUnited States
FAFoundation AlloysEst. 2022
Chris SchuhUnited States
FEForm EnergyEst. 2017
Yet-Ming ChiangUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
155 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Desktop Metal was the 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.
6 deals across Desktop Metal's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
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.
Desktop Metal's portfolio, mapped.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Desktop Metal on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
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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