Formlabs weighs $500 million IPO after reporting $250 million-plus revenue

Bloomberg says the MIT spinout is in early adviser talks, five years after SoftBank led a $150 million round at a $2 billion valuation.

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A Formlabs IPO would test whether public investors will value professional 3D printing as an installed-base materials and software business. It could also give SoftBank a liquidity path five years after investing at a $2 billion valuation.

Formlabs' 3D printing technology amidst IPO considerations (Photocopied zine page — high-contrast xerox grain, cut-and-paste layout elements, degraded second-generation copy textures.)

Maxim Lobovsky (@MaxLobovsky)'s Formlabs is in early talks with potential advisers about an initial public offering that could raise roughly $500 million, Bloomberg reported on August 7th, citing people familiar with the matter.…

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