Xometry Inc

Xometry, Inc. (Xometry, the “Company”, “our”, or “we”) is a global artificial intelligence (“AI”) powered online marketplace connecting buyers with suppliers of manufacturing services, driving the digital transformation of one of the largest industries in the world. We use our proprietary AI, machine learning and cloud-based services, including our Thomasnet® platform, to help buyers efficiently source custom-manufactured parts and assemblies, and empower suppliers of manufacturing services to grow their businesses.

Our AI-enabled technology platform is powered by proprietary machine learning algorithms and datasets, resulting in a sophisticated two-sided marketplace that is rapidly digitizing the manufacturing industry. As a result, buyers can procure the products they want on demand, and suppliers can source new manufacturing opportunities that match their specific capabilities and capacity, ultimately resulting in locally resilient supply chains so goods can get to market faster. Every interaction on our marketplace provides rich data insights that allow us to continuously improve our AI models and create new products and services, fueling powerful network effects as we scale.

We define “buyers” as individuals who have placed an order to purchase custom-manufactured, on-demand parts or assemblies on our marketplace. Our buyers include engineers, product designers, procurement and supply chain personnel, inventors, entrepreneurs and business owners from businesses of a variety of sizes, ranging from self-funded start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. We define “accounts” as an individual entity, such as a sole proprietor with a single buyer or corporate entities with multiple buyers, having purchased at least one part on our marketplace. We define “suppliers” as individuals or businesses who have been approved by us to either manufacture a product on our platform for a buyer or have utilized our supplier services, including our financial services or the purchase of supplies.

Manufacturing is one of the largest industries globally and is in the early stages of digitization. Buyers looking to source manufacturing processes are faced with a highly fragmented and regionalized base of suppliers that are prone to supply chain disruptions and are difficult to efficiently manage. Opaque pricing structures, long lead times and a lack of quality controls contribute to a procurement process that is inefficient, unpredictable and unreliable. Conversely, suppliers of specialized and custom manufacturing services are faced with limited ability to source customers, inconsistent demand, volatile operating costs and resource constraints that put their businesses under significant financial pressure. For supply chains around the world to become more reliable and resilient, buyers and suppliers need a more efficient, agile way to transact.

We enable buyers across industries to source a broad array of manufacturing processes to meet their needs. We generate a majority of our revenue from the prices we charge buyers on our platform. Buyers begin by uploading an engineering schematic that contains 3D design specifications, typically a computer-aided design (“CAD”) file. Then, our proprietary AI-enabled Xometry Instant Quoting Engine® prices transactions based on factors such as volume, manufacturing process, material and location. We continue to add new processes to our Xometry Instant Quoting Engine. The convenience and transparency of our model leads to increasing buyer loyalty and spend over time. In addition, we offer buyers the ability to purchase carbon credits to offset the carbon used to make and ship their parts. Revenue from our marketplace was approximately 85% of our total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2023.

We empower suppliers to grow their manufacturing businesses and improve machine uptime by providing access to an extensive, diverse base of buyers. We also offer suppliers supporting products and services to meet their unique needs. Through Thomasnet, a leading industrial sourcing platform in North America, we offer suppliers an array of digital advertising and marketing services and data solutions on Thomasnet. In addition, our suite of supplier services includes financial service products to stabilize and enhance cash flow and a cloud-based manufacturing execution system (“Workcenter”) to help suppliers optimize their productivity. Revenue from our supplier services was approximately 15% of our total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2023.

Industry Overview

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Manufacturing is a massive, highly fragmented, and regionalized industry in need of solutions to drive efficiency. The global manufacturing industry is one of the largest industries in the world. We believe the industry is poised for increased digitization via a number of global thematic shifts, including rising demand for production, new manufacturing technologies, and shifting value chains, but is in need of solutions to drive efficiency and create opportunities from these dynamics. Furthermore, the manufacturing industry is largely composed of small- to medium-sized manufacturers and we believe that there are significant barriers to entry for these businesses, who have to compete with scaled, better-resourced manufacturers. Xometry has an opportunity to help these highly fragmented, small- to medium-sized manufacturers with their materials, financing and advertising and marketing through our supplier services.

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Sourcing manufacturing opportunities is a complex, costly and time-consuming process. Even for the most sophisticated buyers and suppliers, the manufacturing sourcing and procurement process is complex, uncertain, costly and time-consuming. We believe that the labor-intensive sourcing process presents a significant opportunity as buyers and suppliers look for more efficient ways to source demand and launch production.

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Resilient, localized and compliant supply chains are imperative. There is a significant opportunity to help companies around the world improve their supply chain diversification, access just-in-time production, and build supply chain resilience. The effects of the recent public health crises and ongoing geopolitical instability have highlighted the urgent need for resilient and localized supply chains.

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There is increasing focus on the manufacturing industry to address environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) issues. Companies and investors are increasingly focused on the importance of ESG issues. Supply chain management is a major source of carbon emissions. A lack of transparency in the supply chain makes it more difficult for companies to track and address their carbon emissions. Many companies, including some of the largest corporations in the U.S., are shifting their focus towards building more equitable supply chains and sourcing from more diverse suppliers. These issues continue to garner management and stakeholder focus, and we believe companies will increasingly look to productive business solutions that limit environmental harm and address social issues throughout the manufacturing ecosystem.

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Multiple catalysts have led to an inflection point for industry digitization. We believe future expected labor shortages, in combination with the proliferation of new technologies, necessitates digital solutions that increase productivity, improve financial performance and allow them to compete sustainably.

Our Opportunity

We believe the unique challenges that companies and manufacturers face, supporting macro trends, and innovations in technology have brought the manufacturing industry to an inflection point for digital transformation. We provide the solution—a marketplace to unlock access, drive business efficiency, and improve the sustainability of manufacturing worldwide.

At the time of our initial public offering (“IPO”), we estimated our addressable market at $260 billion based on the estimated size of the market for the six key manufacturing processes offered on our platform at that time. This included CNC machining, injection molding, 3D printing (including fused deposition modeling, direct metal laser sintering, PolyJet, stereolithography, selective laser sintering, binder jetting, carbon digital light synthesis and multi jet fusion), sheet forming and cutting, die casting and urethane casting. Subsequently, we acquired Thomas Publishing Company and its subsidiaries (“Thomas”) which has data and information about suppliers which offer over 70,000 industrial processes, which we believe expands our addressable market to over $2 trillion.

Our Platform

We are accelerating innovation by providing real-time, equitable access to global manufacturing demand and capacity. We provide sourcing and pricing across a network of buyers and suppliers, offer a suite of configurable manufacturing processes through our diverse supplier network, and enable business success through additional products and services that serve the unique needs of each side of our marketplace.

Our platform is AI-driven, continuously learning from millions of data inputs from marketplace interactions, providing rich insights and analytics that allow us to further improve the efficiency of our ecosystem and the products and services we offer. The data we generate enables us to become a preferred collaboration, workflow, and transaction platform for both buyers and suppliers.

Our platform is also highly extensible, with an expansive and growing set of traditional and emerging manufacturing processes offered by our supplier network. Because of our platform’s extensibility, we are well positioned to scale and rapidly capture new processes brought to the platform by our suppliers, further enabling buyers to access customized, relevant manufacturing solutions that are suited to their industry needs and buyer preferences.

We offer these tailored processes through a user-centric platform that is reliable and flexible, leveraging additional products and services to increase buyer and seller engagement over time.

Reducing Manufacturing's Carbon Footprint

We are committed to helping reduce the manufacturing industry’s overall carbon footprint.

Marketplace customers can calculate the carbon footprint of their manufacturing projects to help them make informed decisions that will help them reduce their carbon emissions. In 2022, we integrated the Gravity Climate API into our marketplace. The Gravity Climate API calculates carbon emissions estimates for Xometry order requests, using climate science and data related to product material, manufacturing processes, mass, and geography.

We also offer a Carbon Offset Program, which gives buyers an integrated option to offset up to 100% of the carbon footprint of the entire manufacturing process for their orders from raw material extraction and processing, to the transportation of materials and goods along the supply chain, to the energy consumed in fabrication and the operations of the manufacturer. Additionally, we purchase carbon credits to offset 100% of the estimated impact of the shipment of parts to buyers from sellers and we promote green technologies like additive manufacturing, which help to reduce the carbon footprint of the manufacturing industry globally.

Why Buyers Win

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Instant and Competitive Pricing and Lead Times. We create value for buyers through our marketplace which is fueled by the continuous learning of our AI-enabled technology platform. The data generated by platform interactions improves the efficiency of our marketplace pricing and improves lead times for buyers. As our AI technology learns buyer needs and preferences, it becomes more precise and efficient, leading to better pricing and matching which in turn drives greater buyer engagement on the platform.

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Ease of Purchase. We make it easy for buyers to transact on our marketplace. We are committed to simplifying the procurement process for buyers and offer an exceptional e-commerce experience to simplify transactions. After a buyer uploads a CAD file, our platform provides instant access to a wide range of materials, finishes and certifications, with transparent pricing and lead-time information. Buyers can also access our e-commerce capabilities through our plug-ins created for various popular 3D CAD programs and punch-out integrations with widely-used ERP and procurement systems.

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Access to a Growing Network of Suppliers. We provide buyers access to a growing global network of suppliers on our platform. Our extensive network alongside a personalized user experience allows buyers to submit projects with unique components and specifications, which we source through our platform to suppliers that are able to deliver. In particular, we implement select credentialing and compliance specifications to ensure that we can meet the standards for buyers across a number of industries.

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Broad Suite of Industry-Specific Solutions. We offer a wide range of traditional and emerging manufacturing processes and materials for customized solutions across massive industries including Aerospace, Healthcare, Robotics, Defense, Industrial, Energy, Automotive, Government, Education and Consumer Goods. The extensibility of our platform allows us to add new processes over time.

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Reliability and Quality. We offer consistently high-quality products and certainty of order fulfillment for buyers. We are further embedding our platform into various buyer workflows by productizing our internal AI and workflow engine. Our enterprise integration supports procurement workflows and part and sourcing requirements. By embedding Xometry intelligence into workflows, we are able to deliver more reliable and relevant manufacturing solutions for buyers.

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Production Flexibility. We allow buyers to purchase any number of parts and services. From one part to millions, buyers have access to several manufacturing processes for rapid prototyping, product development, or high-volume production. These processes can also be combined with over 75 finishes available across CNC machining, sheet forming and cutting and additive manufacturing along with thousands of raw material and color combinations. Given this ability to provide tailored and scaled solutions, we find that buyers typically expand their use of our marketplace, sourcing a greater number of parts and processes over time.

Why Suppliers Win

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Cost-Efficient, Real-Time New Business Generation. We offer suppliers access to manufacturing opportunities from our large, geographically and industry-diverse buyer base, allowing suppliers to gain new customers without increasing their sales and marketing spend. As our AI technology improves, our ability to generate new business for suppliers increases. This model is designed to lower customer acquisition costs and improve suppliers margins over time.

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Repeat, High-Quality Customers. Following a successful transaction, we initially offer the same supplier the exclusive opportunity to accept the next repeat order in order to increase efficiency and reliability. Our ability to attract repeat buyers helps stabilize demand for suppliers so they can operate their businesses more efficiently.

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Operational Excellence. We aim to be a completely digital one-stop-shop for all workflow solutions for suppliers. Workcenter helps our suppliers digitize their operations so they can work smarter and faster. We provide order management, shipping and collaboration tools, reducing friction for suppliers and improving overall manufacturing order process efficiency. During 2022, we introduced Workcenter which gives suppliers a one-stop view into all of their Xometry and non-Xometry work. A cloud-based manufacturing execution system, Workcenter brings the job board and financial services into one, easy-to-use platform. With Workcenter, shop owners can build and manage workflows for all their projects, including those from non-Xometry customers, and also quote new projects from Xometry and Thomas.

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Financial Stability and Security. Our suite of financial services and Xometry maintenance, repair, and operating partnerships help suppliers enhance their cash flows and lower operating costs at all stages of production. Suppliers can receive cash advances for their work, accelerated payouts and a seamless digital invoicing process in an industry that frequently still relies on analog payments that are prone to delays. These services help suppliers manage their business more efficiently.

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Advertising, Marketing and Data Solutions. Our suite of digital advertising and marketing services and data solutions provided by Thomasnet helps suppliers grow and efficiently run their business. We offer suppliers a full slate of digital advertising and marketing services, including targeted advertising to buyers, website building, and search-engine optimization (“SEO”) resources that will help them further grow their business.

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Increased Utilization. We are focused on helping suppliers realize their potential by providing manufacturing opportunities that can be procured in a single click. Knowing that there is a reliable way to find extra work gives suppliers the confidence they need to invest in a new machine, hire an extra employee, or focus on a big job with a longer lead time, while relying on our technology platform to fill in available capacity. The convenience of this automated cycle drives greater order fulfillment and increased utilization across our supplier network.

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Supplier Community. Through our supplier-focused community initiatives, we empower suppliers of a variety of sizes to grow their businesses. Our Community Portal is an active and dedicated place where we can interact with our suppliers to better understand their needs and interests, and also give suppliers a platform to support one another. Our suppliers take pride in their crafts and are often sharing tips on machining best practices as well as how they leverage Xometry to work best for their shop.

Why We Win

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Rich Data and Constantly Improving AI Technology. In an industry that historically used intuition and basic data to drive purchasing and pricing decisions, we offer our customers pricing using our proprietary predictive algorithms. Our platform interactions generate millions of data inputs that are reinvested to continue improving our proprietary technology, machine learning and data analytics models. Leveraging this growing data set, we have been refining our AI technology to improve sourcing, pricing and lead time quotes for buyers and suppliers. This data in combination with our machine learning algorithms fuels the continuous learning of our models. As our models improve, pricing and supplier matching on our platform becomes more efficient helping to drive expanding marketplace gross margin.

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Custom-Built, Extensible Platform. Our manufacturing processes and supply offerings are tailored to the complex and industry-specific design and order needs of manufacturing. These custom offerings are powered by our diverse and growing supplier network which contributes differentiated processes and our AI-enabled technology that facilitates intelligent matches between buyers and suppliers. Additionally, our use of services-oriented architecture and cloud infrastructure ensures scalability and helps reduce the time to market for new offerings. With the acquisition of Thomasnet, we continue to add new manufacturing processes by leveraging data and supplier relationships on the platform.

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Powerful Network Effects. Today, we are the largest AI-enabled digital manufacturing marketplace by revenue. As we continue to scale, we benefit from a self-reinforcing, virtuous cycle, in which marketplace interactions contribute valuable data points and insights that improve our AI-enabled platform. As a result, we have experienced rapid growth in our active buyer and active supplier base, fueling marketplace growth.

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Buyer Engagement and Expansion. Our flexible ordering process allows us to land new customers and increases buyer loyalty, fueling an efficient go-to-market model. Over time, our accounts typically increase their spend with us through the addition of buyers and incremental processes, increasing order frequency and spend. For the quarter ended December 31, 2023, 96% of our marketplace revenue was generated from existing accounts. We define an existing account as an account where at least one buyer has made a purchase on our marketplace. For the quarter ended December 31, 2023, we saw a 30% year-over-year increase in accounts with at least $50,000 annual spend.

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Globally Distributed Supplier Network. Our global network of over 10,000 supplier brings together a range of manufacturing processes and industry-specific knowledge. With the acquisition of Thomas, we have access to an additional 500,000 suppliers. This enables us to serve a large, diverse and growing set of buyers. We offer our suppliers products and services to help them manage their businesses more efficiently and connect our entire supplier community for access to shared resources and support.

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Mission-Driven Culture. As we accelerate innovation in manufacturing, we remain focused on empowering local businesses and enabling new product development for companies around the world. Our corporate culture is centered around our mission through our commitments to serve the local communities in which we operate, champion technological innovation, and drive sustainability for manufacturing worldwide.

Our Growth Strategy

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Attract new buyers and grow wallet share with existing buyers. We intend to continue investing in acquiring new buyers through traditional paid sales and marketing techniques as well as leveraging our strong organic referral network to drive awareness and build trust. We are also focused on increasing buyer loyalty and buyer spend within existing accounts by investing in our sales and marketing capabilities.

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Deepen and expand supplier partnerships. Creating the largest, most connected, and efficient supplier network in the world benefits our entire platform. We are focused on attracting new suppliers, recognizing the massive opportunity still in front of us and the intrinsic benefit an active, diverse supplier population brings to the overall platform.

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Become an enterprise solution for our suppliers. As we continue to grow the amount of data processed by our algorithms, we can provide our suppliers with progressively sophisticated data insights and analytics. Combined with our workflow management software and other supplier services, we will increasingly become the enterprise solution for suppliers to manage their businesses on and off platform.

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Continue our international expansion. We believe there is significant opportunity in the global manufacturing ecosystem for a marketplace like Xometry. With operations throughout the majority of the contiguous United States, Canada, Europe and Asia, we have established footholds in major markets around the world. We will continue to dedicate sales and marketing resources to develop our supplier networks and attract buyers to our marketplace in other regions.

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Enhance and offer additional supplier products and services. Our supplier products and services allow us to deepen supplier relationships and increase engagement. Revenue from our supplier services was approximately 15% of our total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2023. We plan to continue to market our financial service products to U.S. suppliers, enhance features that allow quicker conversion of purchase orders to cash, and build toward a full-service digital wallet for suppliers to use for payouts and purchases. In addition, we continue to enable our buyers and suppliers to seamlessly acquire our marketing and advertising services through Thomasnet.

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Pursue strategic acquisitions. With the size and complexity of the manufacturing industry we believe there is significant opportunity for targeted investments and acquisitions to strengthen our competitive position and processes.

Government Regulation

Our business activities are subject to various federal, state, local and foreign laws, rules, and regulations. Compliance with these laws, rules, and regulations has not had, and is not expected to have, a material effect on our capital expenditures, results of operations, and competitive position as compared to prior periods. Nevertheless, compliance with existing or future governmental regulations, including, but not limited to, those pertaining to privacy, data protection, taxation, intellectual property, advertising, environmental, labor and employment, consumer protection and unsolicited email, and cybersecurity, could have a material impact on our business in subsequent periods. For more information on the potential impacts of government regulations affecting our business, see “Item 1A - Risk Factors.”

Data Privacy and Security Laws

We may be subject to numerous data privacy and security obligations in various jurisdictions, including laws, regulations, guidance, industry standards, external and internal privacy and security policies, contractual requirements, and other obligations relating to data privacy and security. Most U.S. states have enacted laws and regulations requiring notification to users when there is a security breach of personal data, or requiring the adoption of certain information security standards that are often vaguely defined and difficult to practically implement. The costs of compliance with these laws and regulations may increase in the future as a result of amendments or changes in interpretation. Furthermore, any failure on our part to comply with these laws and regulations may subject us to significant liabilities.

We are also subject to federal, state, and foreign laws and regulations regarding privacy and protection of data. Our privacy policies describe our practices concerning the use, storage, transmission and disclosure of personal information, including visitor and user data. Any failure by us to comply with these terms or privacy related laws and regulations could result in proceedings against us by governmental authorities or others, which could harm our business. In addition, the interpretation of privacy and data protection laws and regulations and their application to online services are quickly changing, becoming increasingly stringent, and creating regulatory uncertainty. There is a risk that these laws and regulations may be interpreted and applied in conflicting ways among jurisdictions. Preparing for and complying with these obligations requires us to devote significant resources, which may necessitate changes to our services, information technologies, systems, and practices and to those of any third parties that process personal data on our behalf.

In addition, outside the U.S., an increasing number of laws, regulations, and industry standards govern data privacy and security. Complying with these varying domestic and foreign requirements could cause us to incur additional costs and change our business practices. Further, any failure by us to adequately protect our users’ privacy and data could result in a loss of user confidence in our services and ultimately in a loss of users, which could adversely affect our business.

Human Capital

We strive to recruit, develop, and engage diverse, highly talented and driven employees who connect to our mission and model our core values. We believe that our strong, mission-driven culture and our continued investment in our employees’ growth and development are key to our collective success. As of December 31, 2023, we had 992 employees.

Xometry Culture and Engagement

Our global team is unified by our mission, and we are passionate about delivering every day for our buyers, suppliers and partners. Our core values, which are rooted in the spirit of entrepreneurism, guide how we connect with our industry, our community and each other. We take pride and celebrate our focus on the customer, whether external or internal, our inclusive collaboration, our desire to deliver exceptional solutions and service, and our creativity and innovation.

All of us at Xometry come to work with one mission in mind, to champion the manufacturers who build the big ideas that move our world forward.

Employee Learning and Development

We are committed to cultivating ongoing learning throughout each employee’s unique career journey here. We strive to continuously develop capabilities across our global teams and to ensure there are plentiful opportunities where our employees can showcase their expanding accomplishments. We seek to ensure our employees have the tools and resources they need to achieve their career goals covering a range of priority topics, through a variety of learning formats, and in close partnership and alignment with leaders.

We believe career growth occurs by building a broad-based portfolio of capabilities and not just in a linear path, and we eagerly encourage and celebrate mobility across and throughout the organization.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to growing and empowering inclusive communities in our company, our industry, and the neighborhoods in which we live. We know that a diverse and thriving workforce is critical to attract and retain the talent necessary to grow our business. Our success depends on ideas. We can foster more productive ideas if we amplify all voices and provide the tools and resources to those who need them.

We drive diversity, equity and inclusion (“DEI”) forward through programs, investments and initiatives including:

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Diverse Manufacturers. We provide work to thousands of small machine shops that typically do not have exposure to jobs from large corporations. Our suppliers include many minority, veteran, and women-owned companies.

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Talent. We are increasing and broadening the pools of candidates from which we hire, both externally and internally, and are further refining the requirements, assessment criteria and selection process for each of our roles.

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Education. We devote considerable time and resources to the continuing education of our employees. This effort begins on an employee’s first day and remains part of our employee’s experience through regular panel discussions and focus groups to encourage conversations and ideas around DEI priorities.

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Culture. Our Employee Resource Groups (“ERGs”) continue to bring employees together to build and further strengthen communities that foster a diverse and inclusive workplace through education, conversation, support, and advocacy.

Compensation and Benefits

Our compensation philosophy is to promote a pay-for-performance culture to attract, incentivize, and retain talented employees who can develop, implement, and drive long-term value creation strategies. We’ve designed our compensation program so that many of our employees have a component of their compensation that is performance or incentive driven.

We designed our total rewards approach to include a range of offerings to reward, engage and support our employees. This includes market-competitive pay, including equity compensation, along with a comprehensive offering of benefits and programs to support health, mental, social and financial well-being. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits vary regionally due to local regulations and preferences.

Social Impact

We take pride in giving back to the communities that have supported us as an organization and as individuals. In addition to our donor advised fund, we also sponsor and encourage our employees to volunteer and/or donate to a variety of charitable organizations, whether to non-profits local to the communities in which we operate, for causes near to our employees’ hearts or as part of our ERGs’ missions to advocate, educate and/or support partner non-profit organizations.

Environment

We are committed to reducing the carbon footprint of manufacturing. We purchase carbon credits to offset 100% of the estimated impact of the shipment of parts, and offer buyers the ability to instantly see the price to purchase carbon credits to offset the carbon used to make and ship their parts. We also promote technologies like additive manufacturing that reduce the carbon footprint.

Non-Profit Organizations

We want to help non-profits that are making a difference addressing crucial problems facing our world. We created a donor advised fund (see www.xometry.org which is part of our company and not a separate entity) to fund non-profit entities leading the fight against urgent problems such as education and climate change. We have a moral obligation to share some of our good fortune with others and protect our planet for future generations. We integrate this work into our culture and we use our commitment to ideas beyond just building the company to attract, retain and motivate our employees. We do not see this work as a side-project or distraction. To the contrary it is core to the culture we are building at Xometry and ultimately we believe the support we provide through our donor advised fund makes our business stronger and more successful.

We have embraced the Pledge 1% movement, and are committed to donating 1% of our equity over time, to fund and support the operations of the donor advised fund. We have initially reserved 402,658 shares of Class A common stock, representing 1% of our fully diluted capitalization as of the date of approval by our board of directors, for issuance over the next five years for this purpose, in an amount not to exceed 20% of the initial reserve amount per calendar year. Xometry has pledged more than $900,000 to provide eight scholarships through the 2026 academic year to students enrolled in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Howard University College of Engineering and Architecture. Xometry is also providing scholarships for 250 students at community colleges in six manufacturing states: Maryland, Kentucky, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Connecticut and New York.

Competition

The domestic and global on-demand manufacturing industry is localized and highly fragmented and we compete for both buyers and suppliers.

We compete for buyers with service bureaus and brokers. Our competitors include vertically integrated service bureaus, the service bureau divisions of the additive original equipment manufacturing (“OEM”) companies such as Stratasys and 3D Systems and independent machine shops and 3D printing service bureaus. For buyers, we compete on the basis of competitive pricing, user experience, and superior customer service.

For suppliers, we compete with brokers and listing services. Suppliers will pay independent brokers commissions to connect with buyers as well as list their services in offline trade publications and online listing services. We also compete with companies that sell software and services to suppliers, enabling them to sell from their own website or otherwise run their business independently of our platform. We are able to compete for suppliers on the basis of providing real-time access to orders, cash flow stability, global access to customers and supplier services and financial products.

Intellectual Property

Our commercial success depends in part on our ability to obtain, maintain and protect intellectual property and other proprietary rights for our current and future technologies and services. We rely on a combination of patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret laws in the United States and other jurisdictions, as well as license agreements, confidentiality procedures, non-disclosure agreements, and other contractual protections, to establish, maintain and protect our intellectual property and proprietary rights, including our proprietary technology, software, know-how, and brand. However, these laws, agreements, and procedures provide only limited protection.

As of December 31, 2023, we own ten issued United States patents directed to the use of machine learning for generating fabrication and manufacturing predictions, such as price, manufacturability and suitable materials and three pending patents applications (two in the United States and one in Europe) directed to similar technologies. Our issued patents in the U.S. will expire between 2036 and 2037, excluding any extension of patent terms that may be available.

As of December 31, 2023, we have approximately 45 registered U.S. trademarks and more than 100 registered foreign trademarks internationally for our name and certain words and phrases that we use in our business, and we rely on copyright laws and licenses to use and protect software and certain other elements of our proprietary technologies.

We enter into confidentiality and invention assignment agreements with our employees and consultants and confidentiality agreements with other third parties, and we actively monitor access to our proprietary technologies. In addition, we license third-party software, open source software and other technologies that are used in the provision of or incorporated into some elements of our services. Many parts of our business are significantly reliant on proprietary technology and/or licensed technology, including open source software.

Although we take steps to protect our intellectual property and proprietary rights, we cannot be certain that the steps we have taken will be sufficient or effective to prevent the unauthorized access, use, copying or the reverse engineering of our technology and other proprietary information, including by third parties who may use our technology or other proprietary information to develop services that compete with ours. Moreover, others may independently develop technologies or services that are competitive with ours or that infringe on, misappropriate, or otherwise violate our intellectual property and proprietary rights. Policing the unauthorized use of our intellectual property and proprietary rights can be difficult. The enforcement of our intellectual property and proprietary rights also depends on any legal actions we may bring against any such parties being successful, but these actions are costly, time-consuming, and may not be successful, even when our rights have been infringed, misappropriated, or otherwise violated. In addition, aspects of our platform and services include software covered by open source licenses. The terms of various open source licenses have not been interpreted by United States courts, and there is a risk that such licenses could be construed in a manner that imposes unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our services.

Although we rely on intellectual property and proprietary rights, including patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets, as well as contractual protections, in our business, we also seek to preserve the integrity and confidentiality of our intellectual property and proprietary rights through appropriate technological restrictions, such as physical and electronic security measures.

See the section titled “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business” for a more comprehensive description of risks related to our intellectual property and proprietary rights.

Corporate Information

We were founded in 2013 and incorporated in Delaware on May 29, 2013 under the name NextLine Manufacturing Corp. We changed our name to Xometry, Inc. on June 29, 2015. Our principal executive offices are located at 6116 Executive Boulevard, Suite 800, North Bethesda, MD 20852, and our telephone number is (240) 252-1138. We also maintain websites at www.xometry.com and www.thomasnet.com. Information contained in, or accessible through, our website is not a part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and the inclusion of our website address in this Annual Report on Form 10-K is only as an inactive textual reference. We make available on our website, free of charge, our Annual Report on Form 10-K, our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and our Current Reports on Form 8-K and any amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the SEC. The SEC maintains a website that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding our filings at www.sec.gov.