Top 3D Printing Startups in 2024

Fictiv is a Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem that rapidly delivers custom parts on-demand, to help companies accelerate new product introduction. From early-stage companies to large enterprises, thousands of companies use Fictiv to innovate with agility, de-risk their supply chains, and get products to market faster. Fictiv works with companies like Tesla, Honeywell, and NASA to build the next rockets, self-driving cars, and live-saving robots. We're transforming how teams design, develop, and deliver the next generation of hardware products. For more information about Fictiv or to learn about hardware manufacturing best practices, visit fictiv.com

Mantle's 3D metal printing technology is significantly less complicated and less expensive than existing solutions. Our proprietary material science and machine design result in a printer that is smaller, safer and easier to deploy then anything in the market today. Mantle believes every company should have access to the new part geometries, rapid prototyping capabilities and distributed manufacturing benefits enabled by the additive manufacturing of metal parts.

Freeform is deploying software-defined, autonomous metal 3D printing factories around the world, bringing the scalability of software to physical production. Our proprietary technology stack leverages advanced sensing, real-time controls, and data-driven learning to produce digitally-verified, flawless parts at unprecedented speed and cost. Our mission is to make the transformative power of 3D printing available to all industries at scale and unlock the future of innovation.

We build process management and automation software for some of the largest companies operating in additive manufacturing/3D printing, backed by data. Our connectivity to machines and modularity in performance sets us apart. Today, our tools are helping to make companies more knowledgeable and efficient at using additive manufacturing for production. Tomorrow, we'll enable them to start making parts remotely - the future of manufacturing is distributed.

We’re a passionate team of engineers, designers, and problem-solvers. Started out of MIT in 2011, Formlabs now employs over 250 people across offices in Germany, Japan, and China. We're committed to bringing powerful and accessible fabrication tools into the creative hands of professionals around the world. With the Form 2 SLA 3D printer, Fuse 1 SLS 3D printer, Form Cell manufacturing solution, and Pinshape marketplace of 3D designs, Formlabs is establishing the industry benchmark in professional 3D printing for professionals from a variety of industries. We also develop high-performance materials in-house, as well as best-in-class 3D printing software like PreForm and Dashboard. We believe in what we do, and we’re excited about creating powerful tools that change the way we work and live.

Our mission is to advance product innovation with metal 3D printing. Current metal 3D printers are out of reach for most engineers and designers. They are industrial, cost-prohibitive, and can be dangerous. We are making an affordable, office-friendly system so that every design and engineering team has the ability to 3D print with metal. 

Markforged transforms manufacturing with the most affordable 3D metal and carbon fiber printers capable of producing parts tough enough for the factory floor. Engineers, designers, and manufacturing professionals all over the world rely on Markforged metal and composite printers for tooling, fixtures, functional prototyping, and high-value end-use production. Founded in 2013 and based in Watertown, MA, Markforged has about 300 employees globally, with $137 million in both strategic and venture capital. Markforged was recently recognized by Forbes in the Next Billion-Dollar Startups list and listed as the tenth fastest-growing tech company in the US in the 2018 Deloitte Fast 500. To learn more about Markforged, please visit markforged.com.

For years, there has been demand for FFF 3D printing in manufacturing environments - Recently, Mosaic Manufacturing launched its Array Product Ecosystem, for the first time enabling scalable output from FFF 3D printers. The infrastructure of today means that cost scales linearly with output. If a part costs $5 to make at a volume of 10, it costs $5 to make at a volume of 10,000. This is due to the fact that 3D printing systems were never designed to scale - a fact that the team at Mosaic has been working to change. Mosaic’s Array Product Ecosystem includes Array, Array Production, Element, Element HT, Palette 3, Palette 3 Pro, Canvas, and Mosaic’s 3D Printing Material line.

From prototype to production, karkhana.io helps teams build products faster We are building an on-demand manufacturing platform to bring manufacturing to the desktop through a customer focussed, computer co-ordinated supply chain. We are enabling faster product development by making users submit a digital file of the part they need on karkhana.io and receive unbiased, high quality expert manufacturing advice as well as quotation for manufacturing based on the company's algorithm. Because of high volume of orders across our network, we will be able to pool multiple jobs into a single batch and achieve economy of scale. By quickly identifying the shops and machines best suited for each job and intelligently routing orders, we can offer a far shorter turnaround time than that of traditional manufacturers

We develop and build cutting-edge industrial controllers and modules, focusing on innovation and precision to deliver advanced solutions that boost performance and efficiency in diverse applications.