Formic is a U.S.-focused Robots-as-a-Service company that supplies and manages industrial automation for manufacturers through a fixed-monthly-price model. Formic's Twitter Score is 8.7 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #104,607 among 486,621 tracked accounts.
Formic was co-founded by Saman Farid and Misa Ilkhechi and operates as a full-service automation provider serving mid-market manufacturers across the United States. Its deployment focus spans palletizing, case packing, machine tending, and other robotic applications, with the company handling both the hardware and ongoing management under a single monthly fee. Formic officially launched in 2021 after being founded the prior year.
Formic has raised a total Series A of $53.9 million across two tranches. The first close of $26.5 million, led by Lux Capital, was announced in January 2022 and valued the company at over $100 million, per reporting at the time. A second tranche of $27.4 million, led by Blackhorn Ventures, followed in June 2024. Additional backers include Initialized Capital, Correlation Ventures, Lorimer Ventures, Alumni Ventures, FJ Labs, Mitsubishi HC Capital America, NEC Corporation, Translink Capital, One Planet VC, and Humanoid Global Holdings Corp.
Formic's software suite includes Formic Production Intelligence, Formic Core, Formic FAST, and Formic Colony 2.0, tools designed to support deployment, monitoring, and optimization of robotic systems on factory floors. The account has published 888 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 14 accounts a total of 43 times.
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The accounts that follow Formic include 41 founders, 13 angel investors, 6 influencers and 3 VCs, among them Andrew Kang, Garry Tan, Vance Spencer, Josh Wolfe, Him and ARK Invest.