Saman Farid is a robotics entrepreneur who co-founded Formic, a robotics-as-a-service company that deploys fully managed automation systems in factories on a monthly or hourly fee model. Saman Farid's Twitter Score is 22 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #44,583 (top 10%) among 486,621 tracked accounts.
Saman Farid co-founded Formic and serves as its CEO, building a service that has reached more than 100 factories, maintained 99.9% fleet uptime, and logged more than 400,000 production hours. In June 2024, Formic announced an additional $27.4M in funding led by Blackhorn Ventures, bringing its total Series A to $53.9M. Saman Farid also founded Robots for America, a separate initiative focused on domestic robotics deployment.
Saman Farid co-founded Comet Labs, where he served as Managing Partner. He previously worked at Baidu Ventures USA and, before that, held a vice-president role at Legend Holdings and served as director of the Silicon Valley office at Legend Star. He currently serves on the Investment Advisory Board of Humanoid Global. Saman Farid's account has published 3,172 posts and has been mentioned by 13 accounts a total of 21 times.
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