Company: VLDXW
Filing Date: 2025-08-07
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001641172-25-022475
Chunk: 9

Company: Velo3D, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-07
Form: S-1
Chunk 9
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 terms “Velo3D” the “Company,” the “Registrant,” “we,” “us,” “our” and similar references in this prospectus refer to Velo3D, Inc., the registrant on the cover page of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part.

Overview

We seek to fulfill the promise of additive manufacturing (“AM”), also referred to as three-dimensional printing (“3D printing”), to deliver breakthroughs in performance, cost, and lead time in the production of high-value metal parts.

We produce a fully integrated hardware and software solution based on our proprietary laser powder bed fusion (“L-PBF”) technology, which greatly reduces and often eliminates the need for support structures. Our technology enables the production of highly complex, mission-critical parts that existing AM solutions cannot produce without the need for redesign or additional assembly.

Our L-PBF metal AM technology
is supporting active efforts and has multi-service interest across the Department of Defense enabling a range of critical needs, including
but not limited to, munitions and munition support components, hypersonic propulsion and thermal management systems, maritime surface
and subsurface components, aerospace propulsion, flight components, and leading-edge programs.

We also aim to enable our customers to build resilient supply chains for production parts across industries with a clear, reliable path from concept to production through our Rapid Production Solutions (“RPS”) offering. RPS utilizes our deep engineering expertise, cutting-edge technology and a fleet of Sapphire XC large-format metal 3D printers to accelerate the path to production for our customers. The ability to process flow exact copies of materials and parts ensures repeatability and eliminates the variability that often plagues traditional AM methods. Our technology supports production of mission-critical components such as propulsion hardware, hypersonic engine parts, thermal management systems, airframe components, and advanced munitions. These capabilities contribute to reduced lead times, minimized labor costs, and enhanced readiness while ensuring secure domestic manufacturing free of foreign technology dependencies.

Our Sapphire family of systems (collectively referred to as the “3D Printers”) give our customers who are in space, aviation, defense, automotive, energy and industrial markets the freedom to design and produce metal parts with complex internal features and geometries that had previously been considered impossible for AM. We believe our technology is years ahead of competitors.

Our technology is novel compared to other AM technologies based on its ability to deliver high-value metal parts that have complex internal channels, structures, and geometries. This affords a wide breadth of design freedom for creating