Operator
Good day, and welcome to the iAccess Alpha Virtual Best Ideas Investment Conference 2025. The next presenting company is Velo3D Inc. [Operator Instructions] I’d now like to turn the floor over to today’s host, Mr. Arun Jeldi, CEO of Velo3D Inc. Sir, the floor is yours.
Arun Jeldi
Chairman & CEO
Good afternoon, everyone, and thanks for joining the conference. My name is Arun Jeldi. I’m the CEO of Velo3D. Velo3D is a large metal 3D printing equipment OEM. Velo3D, I’m going to turn this — so it’s founded in 2014. We are headquartered in Fremont, California. Currently, we employ about 133 employees. We are the leading provider of advanced metal additive manufacturing 3D printer solutions.
We offer a full stack of manufacturing platform across industries such as space, aviation, defense, automotive and energy and semiconductors. So we have a software stack and a hardware stack of fully integrated metal AM solution. The software piece is called Flow software, and also we have a quality assurance software, which is in-house developed and is specific to Velo3D Sapphire machines. Our machines are called Sapphires, and there are three different kinds of Sapphire machines we actually market currently, anywhere between 500 millimeters to 1 meter Z-height is the height of the parts we can print on these metal additive laser bed fusion technology platform.
So we have about 63 issued patents currently and 51 pending. This is the — Velo3D is the only metal additive made and manufactured in U.S. The other competitors are more of Europe or Japan. Coming to the history of Velo3D. In 2024, there was a restructuring of the company, and I’m the CEO of Arrayed Additive, which