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3D Printing Funding Tracker: AM Venture Investment Statistics (2026)

Name: 3D Printing Venture Funding Statistics
Creator: AMPulse

Venture capital flowing into additive manufacturing companies, tracked round by round. Unlike headline aggregates that mix in acquisitions, IPOs, and raises by companies that merely use 3D printing, this tracker counts equity venture rounds into companies whose core business is AM. Updated quarterly; latest round 2026-06-24.

1,178
venture rounds since 2022: $10.0B
disclosed funding since 2022: 780
AM companies funded: $7M
median round, last 12 months

AM venture funding by quarter and region

Quarterly disclosed funding has held in a roughly $300M–$1B band since 2023. North America leads in dollars, but Asia leads in round count: Asian AM companies raise more often, in smaller rounds, a pattern that headline dollar charts hide.

Disclosed venture funding ($M) into AM companies by announcement quarter and company HQ region. Amounts are disclosed for 66% of tracked rounds; quarters with large undisclosed rounds are undercounted.Source: AMPulse funding database, curated venture rounds only, as of 2026-07-13.

Largest AM rounds of the last 12 months

The biggest checks are going to AM-native manufacturing platforms (Divergent, VulcanForms, Machina Labs) rather than desktop-printer makers, a signal of where investors think production-scale value sits.

Company	HQ	Stage	Announced	Amount
Divergent Technologies	US	Series D+	2025-09	$290M
VulcanForms	US	Series D+	2026-01	$220M
Machina Labs	US	Series C	2026-02	$124M
SWISSto12	CH	Series B	2025-12	$117M
Ursa Major Technologies	US	Series D+	2025-11	$100M
Firestorm Labs	US	Series B	2026-04	$82M
ELEGOO	CN	Series B	2026-04	$70M
Freeform Future	US	Series B	2026-02	$67M
Cailabs	FR	Growth	2025-09	$62M
Rayshape	CN	Series B	2026-04	$50M

Round mix by stage

Seed and angel rounds make up roughly half of all AM venture activity since 2022, while Series C and later carry the most dollars: the funnel is wide at the bottom and concentrated at the top.

Venture rounds into AM companies by stage, 2022 to present. Stage as reported at announcement.Source: AMPulse funding database, as of 2026-07-13.

Scope. Figures count equity venture rounds (pre-seed through growth) announced from January 2022 onward. Acquisitions, IPOs and public-market financing, debt, grants, and strategic corporate investments are excluded from every figure on this page.

What counts as an AM company. Only companies whose core value proposition is additive manufacturing: equipment, materials, software, services, or AM-native production platforms. Rounds raised by companies that use 3D printing but sell something else (defense systems, launch vehicles, aircraft, food) are excluded, even when AMPulse tracks those companies as AM adopters. Large rounds are individually reviewed against the public record before each refresh; misattributed or inflated records found in review are removed.

Amounts. Dollar totals cover disclosed amounts only (772 of 1,178 rounds, 66%). Non-USD rounds are converted at the announcement-date rate. Round dates use the announcement date; stages are as reported at announcement.

Coverage.The tracker is built from AMPulse's company-anchored news and funding pipeline, which monitors global and Asian-language sources. Coverage of Asian rounds is deeper than most English-language trackers, which is why round counts here can exceed other public tallies for the same quarter.

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Lee, S. (2026). 3D Printing Funding Tracker: AM Venture Investment Statistics (2026). AMPulse Industry Statistics. https://www.ampulse.online/stats/3d-printing-funding