Venture funding for 3-D printing companies is on track for a record year, according to an analysis of deals conducted by VC database PitchBook for Forbes. That's the case even before accounting for the coming $300 million fundraise from 3-D printing unicorn Carbon, which was first reported by PitchBook on Thursday. So far this year, 3-D printing companies have attracted $400 million in venture funding, half the $800 million they had garnered in the entirety of last year, and surpassing the $300 million they'd attracted the year before that, according to the PitchBook analysis. In 2014, for example, 3-D printing companies attracted just $100 million in VC funding, according to the PitchBook analysis. Carbon's $300 million fundraise would be the largest deal of the past five years among 3-D printing companies, according to the PitchBook analysis, surpassing the same firm's earlier $200 million deal in February 2018.

Source: Forbes April 27, 2019 13:30 UTC