Diligence memo · auto-generated · as of July 2, 2026
Glowforge Inc.
Glowforge Inc. looks fair against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.
Businessfiled
Glowforge Inc. operates in Other Technology, based in SEATTLE.
No verified homepage on file yet — operating evidence is limited to the public record.
Capital & rounds (filed)filed
Glowforge Inc. has raised $38M in disclosed capital across 3 recorded rounds, aggregated from public filings. Its latest round is modeled as Series B (a $15M–$40M round).
Largest single filing: $28M on 2016-07-27.
Most recent recorded round closed around 2016-07-27.
Valuation (modeled)modeled
Provath models Glowforge Inc. at approximately $850M (range $68M–$3.3B). This is an algorithmic estimate from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
Read: Fair. Modeled value is 1.45× the median modeled value of Series B Other Technology companies in 2016–2018 (314 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era. Within the normal band (145% of peer median) for its niche.
Financing rhythm & timingmixed
Historic cadence: a new round about every 5 months.
Last raise 9.9 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 13 months.
Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.
The last round stepped up 1.3× from the prior — scaling.
Comparablesmixed
Capital scale ranks ahead of 91% of Other Technology peers (21302 compared).
Modeled value ranks above 95% of those peers.
Closest niche peers: Certified Inc., Universal Recognition Token, Inc., Pymetrics, Inc., Anomali Inc, Docutech Transfer, LLC.
Peoplefiled
8 named people on file across officers, directors and signatories.
Risks & flagsmixed
Financing has been silent well beyond sector cadence — possibly defunct, acquired, or paused.
No clearly named CEO/founder/principal in the surfaced records — key-person evidence is thin.