10 Facts About Formlabs

Formlabs develops and manufactures 3D printers and related software and consumables.

Formlabs was founded by Maxim Lobovsky, Natan Linder, and David Cranor, who met as students at the MIT Media Lab while taking a class called "How to Make Anything".

Formlabs was officially founded in September 2011 to develop the first desktop-sized, easy-to-use, and affordable stereolithography 3D printer.

Formlabs received early seed funding from investors including Mitch Kapor, Joi Ito, and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.

In November 2012, Formlabs was sued by the industrial 3D printing giant 3D Systems that claimed rights to the stereolithography technology that the Form 1 uses.

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In October 2013, Formlabs closed an additional $19 million Series A round of financing led by DFJ Growth, joined by Pitango Venture Capital, Innovation Endeavors, and returning angel investors.

Formlabs said it would use the funding to expand its product portfolio and scale operations to meet increasing customer demand, particularly from Asia.

In October 2012, Formlabs publicly announced its first product, the Form 1 3D printer, in a Kickstarter campaign that raised a record-breaking $2.

Formlabs provides a free software package called PreForm, designed to prepare 3D models for printing on the Form 1, Form 1+, Form 2, Form 3, and Fuse 1.

Formlabs is featured in Print the Legend, a documentary that tells the stories of several leading companies in the desktop 3D printer industry.