According to Document 1 submitted by Carbon on the SEC, Carbon, a unicorn company in the field of 3D printing, has once again initiated financing and has authorized the sale of US $ 300 million (about 2 billion yuan) in E-series financing. According to the market observation of 3D Science Valley, Carbon's E-round financing has confirmed investors of 120 million US dollars.
Unprecedented valuation of $ 2.5 billion
Carbon uses its proprietary digital photo-synthesis technology to bring 3D printing technology to the manufacturing industry, providing Adidas with a range of custom sports shoe manufacturing equipment and materials.
After the previous Series D funding in 2018, Carbon was valued at $ 1.7 billion. According to market research by 3D Science Valley, if E-round 300 million USD financing is completed, Carbon may reach a valuation of 2.5 billion USD.
Carbon's previous investor camps are quite luxurious, including Autodesk, Silver Lake Capital, Sequoia, Johnson & Johnson, Fidelity, General Electric, Hydra Ventures and Adidas, etc. From these investors, CarbonA round D raised a total of USD 422 million (excluding new round of capital in Series E).
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Carbon hopes to help designers and manufacturers increase efficiency, reduce costs, and reduce energy and material waste. Under the leadership of Carbon's founder and CEO Joseph DeSimone, Carbon has set new standards in the industry. In order to continue to promote the wider adoption of Carbon's technology and promote the global growth of 3D printing business, Carbon initiated a new round of financing.
Decoding Unicorn Traits
According to the market observation of 3D Science Valley, the three unicorn companies currently appearing in the 3D printing industry, Carbon, Formlabs, and Desktop Metal are all oriented towards the manufacturing market rather than the prototype field. Great reason.
The second important feature is that all three companies have obtained the investment of their users, and through the endorsement of users, they have gained the trust of investors, which is another significant feature of the success of unicorn companies.
Another feature is the dazzling founder team. These three companies have deep technical foundations in materials, software, hardware and other disciplines. The founding teams of Carbon, Formlabs, Desktop Metal all have dazzling scientific backgrounds. In brief, Carbon is to Virginia Tech, Formlabs is to Harvard University, and Desktop Metal is to MIT.
Finally, in terms of cultural characteristics, these three unicorn companies have the characteristics of growth thinking: welcome challenges, embrace change, always look for opportunities, think that everything is possible, value feedback and actively learn, like to explore new things, Dare to challenge, thinking that every failure is a lesson.
In addition, it is interesting that in the list of investors of the two unicorn companies Desktop Metal and Formlabs, 3D Science Valley also found an unexpected discovery that China's Shenzhen Innovation Investment Group was among them. This may be worth learning from other domestic investment companies.