Freeform raises $67M Series B led by Linz Capital with Nvidia, Founders Fund, and Two Sigma for advanced laser metal printing
Feb 19, 2026 with Erik Palitsch
Key Points
- Freeform closes $67M Series B led by Linz Capital with backing from Nvidia, Founders Fund, and Two Sigma Ventures to scale production of its Skyfall laser metal printing platform.
- The company builds its entire stack in-house—machines, software, ML, electronics—giving it a structural edge as customers face pressure to compress design iteration cycles.
- Freeform is shipping hundreds of metal parts monthly for defense and aerospace programs and plans to nearly double headcount to 155–160 over the next year.
Summary
Freeform, the Hawthorne-based laser metal printing company, has closed a $67M Series B led by Linz Capital's Michael Lind, with participation from Nvidia, Founders Fund, Threshold, and Two Sigma Ventures.
The company's CEO Eric describes demand outpacing capacity, with Freeform now shipping hundreds of metal parts per month on what he calls multiple "frontier programs" — mission-critical components flying on advanced vehicles and systems. He declines to name customers but the defense and aerospace framing is clear.
Skyfall platform
The raise is going toward scaling production capacity rather than proving the technology. Behind Eric during the conversation sits Freeform's next-generation manufacturing platform, Skyfall, described as the fastest and most automated laser melting system built to date. The build envelope is roughly 600mm × 600mm × 1 meter, capable of printing in virtually any metal with high precision across both intricate and large-scale features. Eric says the major technical barriers that previously prevented laser metal printing from scaling have been solved.
Vertical integration
Freeform builds its own machines and writes its own software, machine learning, electronics, and compute stack — no third-party products anywhere in the system. Eric frames this full-stack ownership as the core competitive differentiator, drawing directly on his decade-plus at SpaceX, where he watched advanced designs repeatedly fail at the manufacturing step.
Team and hiring
The team has grown from roughly 35–40 people to 55–60, with plans to hire approximately 100 more over the next 12 months, all based in Hawthorne.
The broader tailwind Eric points to is the gap opening between digital design acceleration — driven partly by AI tools — and manufacturing systems that haven't fundamentally changed in decades. As product iteration cycles compress, customers need a manufacturing partner that can keep pace. Freeform's pitch is that it can.