3D printing funding
Ulendo’s $1M NSF Grant Will Expand its Software to New 3D Printers
3D printing software startup, Ulendo just scooped up $1 million dollars from the National Science Foundation (NSF) program known as America’s Seed Fund, bringing the company’s fundraising total to over…
3D Printed Membrane Maker Evove Raises $6.9M with participation from AM Ventures – Interview
In the production of filtration membranes, the bulk of the manufacturing processes used today still date back to the 1960s, but the impact of 3D printing is promising for this…
Xolo’s Volumetric 3D Printing Gets €8M Boost
Xolo, the developer of the first commercial volumetric 3D printer, announced that it has successfully closed its latest Series A funding round, raising a total of €8 million ($8.6 million)….
Aussie 3D Printed Electronics Startup Snags $2.5M
Australian printed electronics startup Syenta has raised AU$ 3.7 million ($2.5 million) in a seed funding round to accelerate the production of its multi-material 3D printers that allow customers to…
Additive Assurance Closes AU$4.1M for 3D Printing Quality Control
Additive Assurance, a metal 3D printing quality assurance startup, has now raised AU$4.1 million ($2.7 million) in early-stage venture capital funding to establish an additive manufacturing quality assurance center of…
Fortius Metals Snags $2M from AM Ventures for WAAM 3D Printing – AMS Focus
Elementum 3D spinout Fortius Metals, a wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) contract manufacturer, has raised $2 million in a seed round to grow the company by scaling its manufacturing capacity…
MMX 2022: Ask America Makes Anything about 3D Printing
America Makes is the United States’ leading public-private partnership for additive manufacturing (AM) technology and education, working to not only accelerate adoption of the technology in the country, but also to…
Raising Capital: 3D Printing CEOs on Getting Funding without Going Public – Part I
After several years of watching a handful of 3D printing companies follow the SPAC trend to go public, it became even more evident that most of the businesses in the…
Harvard Grads Aim for Mass 3D Printed Alt Meats with $3M Seed Round
Businesses trying to revolutionize the alternative meat industry through 3D printing attracted hundreds of millions of dollars in funding in the last ten years, growing from just a few companies…
$23M Funding Round to Expand 3D Printed Surgical Solutions from restor3d
A Research Triangle Park-based medical device company that is looking to reconstruct and repair the human body with 3D printing technology has raised $23 million in its fifth venture round….
AM Coalition Sends Advisory Letter to Congress on America COMPETES Act
Back in February (on the 4th, to be precise), the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4521, a bill that continues the questionable American tradition of using unwieldy acronyms as…
3D Printed Salmon Alternative Plantish Raises $12M to Scale Operations
A month after unveiling its whole cut plant-based salmon fillets, alternative seafood startup Plantish has raised $12.45 million from a seed round and contemplates initial distribution via restaurants. Focused on…
Are 3D Printing Startups Thriving or Just Surviving in the US?
It is commonly believed that less than half of startups will make it to their fifth year. Usually attributed to a lack of early-stage funding, many startups in the US…
$21M Round Fuels 2 Million Points of Metal 3D Printing Light from Seurat
Focused on disrupting centuries-old manufacturing techniques and challenging existing powder bed fusion (PBF) companies, Seurat Technologies has built a pioneering 3D metal printing process that can compete with the volumes,…
Sydney Bioprinting Firm Closes $25M Series B Round
In a Series B round led by Australia’s largest venture capital (VC) firm, Blackbird Ventures, Sydney-headquartered biotech startup Inventia raised $25 million (A$35 million). The company also landed in the…
3D Printing Software Firm nTopology Pulls in $65M Series D Funding
Next-generation engineering design firm nTopology has secured $65 million in a new Series D financing round led by New York investment firm Tiger Global Management. Other participants in the round…
NASA Funds Antimicrobial 3D Printing Materials for Space Applications
NASA has awarded $1.13 million to researchers from the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) and Chilean nanotechnology company Copper3D to develop and test two new recyclable and antimicrobial materials for…
Lattice 3D Printing Software Now Driven by $1M in Pre-Seed Funding
General Lattice, a Chicago-based startup that develops software for designing optimal lattice structures that can be fabricated via 3D printing, has secured $1 million in pre-seed capital led by AP…
$51M to Ramp up 6K’s Production of Batteries and 3D Printing Metals
6K, the company behind the UniMelt microwave plasma platform that produces unique additive manufacturing powders, has closed a $51M Series C financing round. Volta Energy Technologies, the energy investment firm…
Dream 3D Printing Unicorns: Meet Our Soonicorns
As entire industries incorporate new technologies aiming to build fully automated and digitized economies, the adoption of additive manufacturing (AM) is bound to pick up shortly. So far, in 2021…
AM Investment Strategies Profile: AM Ventures
AM Ventures managing partner Arno Held will participate in the SmarTech – Stifel AM Investment Strategies 2021 summit on September 9, 2021. Held will speak at one of the two…
Defense Appropriations Bill Secures Millions for 3D Printing
The House Appropriations Committee approved a $706 billion defense budget for the fiscal year 2022, which includes $31.5 million towards additive manufacturing (AM) initiatives in Ohio and at least $25…
3YOURMIND Closes $12.4M in Latest Series A+ Funding Round
Software provider for additive manufacturing 3YOURMIND has raised $12.4 million in funding following the closing of its series A+ round in April 2021. The US-German startup dedicated to optimizing and…
Redefine Meat Raises $29M to Grow its 3D Printed Alt-Meat Portfolio
Animal-free meat startup Redefine Meat said it raised $29 million in an equity-based financing round that will be used to expand its plant-based meat portfolio and support its commercial launch…