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Venture capital deployed · 2026 YTD
Sector market cap
Largest raise · trailing 12mo
Catalysts ahead · next 12mo
Companies tracked
Nothing on the calendar yet.
Nothing on the calendar yet.
Mega-rounds dominate the last 12 months: Atoms raised $1.7B in October 2026 and Hadrian raised $1.4B at a $7.9B valuation in August. Seed and Series A checks stay small, such as Nominal's $8M seed in 2022 and Path Robotics' $13M Series A. Median disclosed round sizes sit near $100M for recent Series C and D deals.
Capital concentrates in late stages. Series C and later rounds in 2026 include Hadrian, VulcanForms ($220M Series D), Standard Bots ($200M Series C), and Tulip ($120M Series D). Early-stage rounds have thinned since 2021, with Nominal's $80M Series B in March 2026 showing investors will pay up for proven companies.
Founders Fund led or co-led Hadrian's 2025 Series C and Nominal's 2026 Series B, and Eclipse Ventures co-led VulcanForms' $220M Series D. Lightspeed and NVentures each appear on multiple 2026 rounds. Longtime early-stage names like Lux Capital and Bright Machines' Eclipse have gone quiet since 2024, while Lockheed Martin Ventures and Mitsubishi Electric are new strategic entrants.
Precision manufacturing's competitive advantage now flows from speed of design-to-production iteration, not capital scale.
Manufacturing's reshoring momentum masks a critical materials-supply gap that will trap capital in half-finished infrastructure.
Manufacturing's training-data arms race is creating a new form of geographic inequality between innovation hubs and everyone else.
Procurement, not robotics, is becoming the binding constraint on manufacturing's AI transformation.
As of 2026-08-01
Acquired by Nano Dimension in April 2025, then filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on July 28, 2025. A plan of liquidation was confirmed and its assets were sold under Section 363 — core assets to Arc Impact for ~$7M and foreign subsidiaries to Anzu for ~$10M.