Formant

Formant is an artificial intelligence company in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2017. It has raised $45.0M across 3 rounds, most recently a $21.0M Series B in October 2023.

Formant Robotics

Employees
11–50
Founded
2017
Business Model
B2B
Website
formant.ai
Total Funding
$45.0M
Last Round
$21.0M Series BOct 2023
Rounds
3

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About

Formant connects robots, operators, enterprise systems, and AI agents through a governed layer for monitoring, intervention, evidence, and orchestration. It serves 644 production organizations and pairs its platform with forward-deployed engineers who make deployments work. Formant states that pilots rarely fail on capability and instead fail on contact with unstructured reality, the edge cases no demo contains.

Summary

It lists 11–50 employees. It has raised $45.0M in total across 3 rounds, most recently a $21.0M Series B round in Oct 2023. Investors include SignalFire, BMW i Ventures and Intel Capital.

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Funding History

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Series BSeries BOct 2023
$21.0M

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