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NeoForge

SoftwareBerlin, GermanyFounded 2021· One of 350 Software companies tracked by AMPulse

NeoForge (formerly 1000Kelvin) provides AI-powered software and physics-informed AI models for laser-based manufacturing, including the AMAIZE co-pilot for metal additive manufacturing.

CEO / Founder
Omar Fergani
Team Size
11-50
Stage
Active
Total Funding
$36.0M
Latest Round
Series A
Key Investors
Creative Destruction Lab, European Union

Technology & Products

Key Products

AMAIZE (retained from 1000Kelvin era) and foundational AI models for laser-based manufacturing under the NeoForge brand.

Technological Advantage

The key advantage is AI-defined production floor capabilities that combine physics-informed AI models with vertical software-defined manufacturing to make advanced manufacturing production-ready.

Differentiation

Value Proposition

To make advanced manufacturing production-ready through AI-defined production floors, leveraging physics-informed AI models and vertical software-defined manufacturing capabilities for laser-based production.

How They Differentiate

1000 Kelvin differentiates itself by offering a fast, AI-driven corrective solution that integrates directly into existing engineering workflows (e.g., via Autodesk Fusion). Unlike traditional, complex simulation software that requires expert users, AMAIZE is designed as a co-pilot to be used by any AM engineer to quickly optimize a print job.

Market & Competition

Target Customers

Companies in the aerospace, medical, and industrial manufacturing sectors that utilize laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) for producing complex metal parts.

Industry Verticals

["Aerospace","Medical","Industrial Manufacturing"]

Competitors

Ansys; Monolith AI

Growth & Milestones

Growth Metrics

Information not publicly available.

Major Milestones

["Commercial launch of AMAIZE software.","Integration of AMAIZE with Autodesk Fusion, making it available on the Autodesk App Store.","Established key partnerships with EOS and SCANLAB to integrate AMAIZE with their hardware and systems.","Secured seed funding and grants to expand operations into North America."]

Notable Customers

FKM Sintertechnik GmbH; Chesco GmbH

https://neoforge.ai

Why this company matters

1000 Kelvin addresses the trial-and-error bottleneck in metal additive manufacturing. Its AMAIZE software co-pilot uses physics-informed AI to predict thermal distortions and other print failures before a job starts, automatically adjusting scan strategies and process parameters. This turns what typically requires days of expert simulation into a correction cycle that takes minutes.

The software integrates directly into existing engineering workflows, including Autodesk Fusion via the Autodesk App Store. It is designed for any AM engineer, not just simulation specialists, and works with laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) systems from partners such as EOS and SCANLAB. Target customers include aerospace primes, medical OEMs, and industrial manufacturers producing complex metal parts from alloys like Inconel 718 and Ti-6Al-4V.

Named customers include FKM Sintertechnik GmbH and Chesco GmbH. The company has raised $36 million from investors including Creative Destruction Lab and the European Union, and has secured grants to expand into North America. CEO Omar Fergani holds a PhD in Computational Engineering from Georgia Tech and NTNU.

1000 Kelvin competes with traditional simulation tools from Ansys and Monolith AI, but differentiates on speed and ease of use. The key open question is whether its AI-driven approach can maintain accuracy across the wide variety of new alloys and complex geometries that industrial users demand, especially as metal AM scales beyond prototyping into serial production.