Impossible Objects Raises $40 Million to Bring Industrial Scale to 3D Printing
Funding follows $20 million in U.S. government contracts and growing adoption across aerospace, defense and advanced
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Impossible Objects, a manufacturing technology company bringing the flexibility of 3D printing to industrial-scale production, today announced a $40 million Series B funding round to scale its Composite-Based Additive Manufacturing (CBAM) technology and meet growing customer demand. Inflection Equity led the financing, with participation from Aaron Wealth Management, OCA Ventures, Impact Capital and Excell Partners.
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Impossible Objects’ CBAM 25 industrial additive manufacturing system in operation. The system uses the company’s Composite-Based Additive Manufacturing (CBAM) technology to produce strong, lightweight composite parts at mass-production speeds and is 15 times faster than competing production additive technologies.
For decades, 3D printing promised to transform production but has largely remained a prototyping technology, limited by speed, materials and cost. Impossible Objects’ CBAM technology is revolutionizing 3D printing by bringing its advantages to mass production. Using high-speed production and advanced composite materials, including carbon fiber, CBAM can produce strong, lightweight parts at volume for applications traditionally served by processes such as CNC machining and injection molding, while eliminating the need for expensive tooling and associated costs.
“We’ve created a fundamentally new way to manufacture,” said Robert Swartz, founder and chairman of Impossible Objects. “We live our lives through things, and we have changed how things are made. This is as important as the mill, precision measurement and interchangeable parts. This funding gives us the resources to bring that vision to more customers and make it real at scale.”
The technology is already moving into customer environments. Since launching the CBAM 25 in early 2025, the company has taken five orders and begun deploying the system across aerospace, defense and advanced manufacturing, including with the U.S. Air Force, the National Institute for Aviation Research, the Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center and Rochester Institute of Technology. At U.S. Army Rock Island Arsenal, the technology can support production of up to 10,000 drone bodies per month. The CBAM 25 can print up to 25 layers per minute and is 15 times faster than competing production additive technologies. Its process can produce composite parts with strength up to 200 MPa, up to four times that of competing additive manufacturing processes, with minimal shrinkage and warpage.
“We’re excited to double down on our investment in Impossible Objects and lead this Series B as the company enters its next phase of commercial scale,” said Gintaras Vaisnys, managing partner at Inflection Equity. “Impossible Objects has developed a 3D printing system that can operate at production rates, and the company is seeing explosive demand across commercial and government applications. This funding will help it scale to meet that demand.”
Impossible Objects has also secured $20 million in U.S. government contracts and awards. Its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I and Phase II awards support work on high-strength long range drones, additively manufactured composites with strengths comparable to traditional composites manufacturing, integrated wiring inside of additively manufactured parts and lightweight aircraft wing and fuselage structures. The company’s technology has also been sold to or deployed with U.S. Army Rock Island Arsenal and Air Force Research Laboratory and is included in the U.S. Air Force Technology Roadmap.
“The nature of warfare is changing as new technologies are deployed,” said Stephen Farmen, retired U.S. Army major general. “As a result, the defense industrial base needs new advanced manufacturing technologies that can deliver robust and flexible distributed production so we can get new technologies such as drone and counter-drone systems and repair parts to our warfighters faster, more flexibly and with radically shorter delivery timelines.”
Impossible Objects will use the financing to increase production of its industrial additive manufacturing systems, expand customer deployments and build out the service and commercial organization required to support a growing installed base.
“Our CBAM 25 system is designed from the ground up to meet the high productivity and high reliability needs of advanced manufacturing combined with the flexibility and tool-less manufacturing that modern flexible supply chains require,” said Steve Hoover, CEO of Impossible Objects. “We’re seeing high demand for manufacturing that can adapt faster without sacrificing the performance and reliability customers expect in production. This funding will help us scale to meet that demand. We are proud to be at the forefront of creating the modern manufacturing supply chains that advanced economies need.”
About Impossible Objects
Impossible Objects is transforming manufacturing by combining digital flexibility with industrial-scale production. Its technology combines the freedom of additive manufacturing with the throughput, reliability and economics required for real production, enabling manufacturers to build strong, lightweight parts while adapting designs without the tooling constraints of traditional manufacturing. Founded in 2017, Impossible Objects, Inc. serves customers across aerospace, defense and advanced manufacturing and operates in Northbrook, Illinois, and Rochester, New York. The company is backed by Aaron Wealth Management, OCA Ventures, Impact Capital and Excell Partners, and works with organizations including the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, the National Institute of Research Aviation, the Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center and Rochester Institute of Technology. Learn more at impossible-objects.com.
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