Startups
Does 3D Printing Drive Startups, or Vice-Versa? AM Radio #1
What is it about 3D printing that makes it such a common choice for startup companies? Are these businesses driving additive manufacturing forward, or are they being driven? Peter Zelinski, Stephanie Hendrixson and Julia Hider discuss.
ListenPrintSyst Automates AM Decision Making with AI (Includes Video)
The startup’s cloud-based artificial intelligence tool is designed to help companies adopting additive manufacturing make fast, easy decisions about what and how to 3D print.
WatchThe Case for Tackling the Toughest Material First
The increasing speed and power of high-end processors and data centers has created a market for advanced thermal management solutions. A Silicon Valley startup called Holo is dedicating its first line of products toward this market, starting with 3D-printed copper heat exchangers.
Read MoreAngled Makes It Possible for Anyone to Launch a 3D Printed Product
The online store utilizes open capacity at its sister 3D printer farms for on-demand production with no startup costs, allowing designers to sell physical products as easily as digital ones.
Read MoreThe Future of Jewelry Manufacturing Is Custom, On Demand and Perfectly Sized
The Melvin sisters launched their startup, The Future of Jewelry, when they couldn’t find matching signet rings. Now, customers can design exactly the ring they want, to be produced affordably through 3D printing and/or lost wax casting.
Read MoreHow PrinterPrezz Aims to Realize a Manufacturing Model Tailored to Medical Devices
3D printing for orthopedic implants enables innovation and better patient outcomes, but a new type of manufacturer may be needed to realize this promise. A startup focused on implant development, approval and production via additive manufacturing includes surgeons among its founders.
Read MoreGantri’s 3D Printed Luxury Lighting Brings Designers Closer to Consumers
The San Francisco startup is changing designer lighting with a designer-forward online marketplace and just-in-time delivery enabled by 3D printing.
Read MoreIs Solid-State Additive Manufacturing an Enabler to the Internet of Things?
Startup Tri-D Dynamics sees precision cold spray 3D printing providing IoT-enabled parts with electronics built in. The promise is sensing in environments where the sensing might be needed most.
Read More3D Printed Plastic Replaces Metal: The Cool Parts Show #3
This small business owner discovered 3D printing as a way to manufacture his invention. Now, AM is enabling a totally new source of revenue. Watch The Cool Parts Show to see how.
WatchDSM 3D Printing Acceleration Program Accepting Applications
The I AM Tomorrow Challenge is a ten-week program designed to help startup companies launch or mature their additive manufacturing innovations.
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