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Desktop Metal

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

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

Valuation
$100–500M
Latest valuation · 2026
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Revenue
$100–500M
Latest reported FY
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Headcount
100–500
Current team size
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Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026 $10B+ revenueThoroughbred · Power Law outcome

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

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 score92
LumafieldEst. 2019
Ric FulopUnited States
Signal score89
Foundation AlloysEst. 2022
Chris SchuhUnited States
Signal score86
Kodama SystemsEst. 2021
MVMatt VerminskiUnited States
Signal score86
CubicPVEst. 2021
Emanuel M. SachsUnited States
Signal score79
Allium EngineeringEst. 2020
Steven JepealUnited States
Signal score79
Landsdowne LabsEst. 2015
JMJonah MyerbergUnited States
Signal score78
Alloy EnterprisesEst. 2020
NMNicholas MykulowyczUnited States
Signal score76
Form EnergyEst. 2017
YCYet-Ming ChiangUnited States
Signal score75
Fluent MetalEst. 2020
PPPeter Schmitt, PhDUnited States
Signal score63
Addis EnergyEst. 2024
Yet Ming ChiangUnited States
Signal score58

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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
33K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States29.4%
🏳️ Korea7.6%
🏳️ Republic of7.6%
🇨🇦 Canada7.3%
🇮🇳 India5.5%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$40M patent portfolio · 95 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$40M
14.5% of valuation · 2.3× smaller than top peer Carbon ($92M)
95 active patent families
Where Desktop Metal innovates Mechanical engineeringPhysicsPre ejectionGranular materialMechanics

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.

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        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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