TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

New York-based startup Sketchfab has been acquired by Epic Games , the company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine. Sketchfab has been building a platform to upload, download, view, share, sell and buy 3D assets. Essentially, it is the leading repository for 3D files on the web. Epic Games isn’t disclosing the terms of the deal.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Hexa , a 3D asset visualization and management platform, today announced that it closed a $20.5 After all, the company was once one of the world’s largest smartphone manufacturers — not exactly entrenched in the 3D modeling space. They also can manage and assess the impact of their 3D content through our platform.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

It enabled them to see and understand firsthand the issues associated with exchanging large proprietary 3D files from vendors like Autodesk and Trimble. Stefanescu said the goal is to provide a platform to open up the process and make it easier for companies to exchange information in 3D formats.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

million seed planned to accelerate its 3D printing technology. Most of these companies specialize in plant-based meats that mimic ground beef or sausage. The company notes that 70% of the meat market revolves around whole cuts — a stark contrast to what other alternative meats offer. “If On the one hand, there’s 3D printing.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2022

In the midst of the pandemic, Pantheon Design , a maker of industrial 3D printers from Vancouver, BC, suddenly found itself getting orders from factories in the Midwest, the center of heavy industries. Parts created by Pantheon’s 3d printer. The reason? “So their machines break down all the time.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The company, headquartered in France, has developed a SaaS-based visual e-merchandising platform with tools for creating 3D images for e-commerce. And, the company announced $100 million in Series B funding Tuesday, which quickly follows a $15 million Series A round announced in February.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

3D printing has garnered a lot of hype, much of it for good reason: The technology has unlocked new kinds of object shapes and geometries, and it uses materials that tend to be much lighter weight than their traditionally manufactured counterparts. The company manufactures industrial 3D printers for thermoplastics.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Metal and carbon fiber company Markforged (best known for its Digital Forge platform) announced today that it acquired Digital Metal to further increase its lineup of machines that can produce metal parts. The company was previously owned by Swedish metal powder manufacturer Höganäs AB. million shares of Markforged common stock.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Now, a South Korean augmented reality (AR) startup called RECON Labs , which enables e-commerce customers to create 3D models within a few hours by taking a short video of products via its platform PlicAR, has raised $4.4 Retailers can save time and costs by using PlicAR without building their own 3D modeling platform, he added.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

3D model provider CGTrader has raised $9.5 We first covered the Vilnius-based company when it raised €200,000 from Practica Capital. Founded in 2011 by 3D designer Marius Kalytis (now COO), CGTrader has become a significant 3D content provider — it even claims to be the world’s largest. million 3D models and 3.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The company has developed a new neural rendering technology that makes it possible to take a small number of photos to generate, shade and render a photo-realistic 3D model of a product. In other words: you can see a 3D image of the product you’re considering in a VR headset.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The breakthrough made by CEO Will Edwards and chief scientist Ron Jones was to give that fuel a structure and 3D print it in a specially engineered matrix. The company designed engines around this concept and tested them at smaller scales, but recently graduated to the kind of engine you might actually use if you were going to space.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

OPT’s 3D printing system was seven years in the making, but its timing was certainly fortuitous, with the creation of a swab it says is “up to 20 times more effective in bacterial sample elution.” Today, the company is making headlines again courtesy of a healthy $15 million Series A. Image Credits: OPT Industries.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

ICON, which creates homes using 3D printing, has raised an additional $185 million in a round led by Tiger Global Management, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. While the Austin-based company confirmed the latest raise, it declined to comment on its valuation or provide further details. and Mexico.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Making 3D out of text : That’s OpenAI’s new thing as it releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models. And not just any models, Kyle writes — it “generates point clouds, or discrete sets of data points in space that represent a 3D shape — hence the cheeky abbreviation.”. Christine and Haje. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

How Nvidia got here and where it’s going next sheds light on how the company has achieved that valuation, a story that owes a lot to the rising importance of specialty chips in business—and accelerating interest in the promise of generative AI.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

One small company that stepped into the fray of swab production was the two-year-old OPT Industries, a Massachusetts-based company with 15 employees involved in additive manufacturing (think 3D printing) of dense microfiber structures. After that trial run, the company foresees an uptick in production capability.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Using digital light processing (DLP) tech, the company can mix and print in a variety of different materials, with a wide range of properties. Like Mantel, the company looks to be targeting manufacturing tools, including injection molding. Recent months have also found the company enlisting other 3D printing vets.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Hover — which has built a platform that uses eight basic smartphone photos to patch together a 3D image of your home that can then be used by contractors, insurance companies and others to assess a repair, price out the job, and then order the parts to do the work — has raised $60 million in new funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

With a smattering of notable exceptions, however, 3D printing has largely been focused on rapid prototyping and limited-run, personal products. Metal 3D printing companies like Mantle represent an intriguing use case on the road to truly scaling the tech to mass manufacturing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

The company first started out as MojiLala, which launched out of betaworks. Now as Leo AR, the company is focused on 3D augmented reality objects without losing focus on giving artists an easy-to-use outlet for their virtual wares. One entrepreneur, Dana Loberg , has capitalized on the launch of ARKit with her startup Leo AR.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Avataar helps direct-to-consumer brands and e-commerce marketplaces with shaping their consumer journeys with 3D rendition of products. As long as the product images are in at least 1080p resolution, Aluru said, Avataar can stitch a virtual and 3D version from it. The six-year-old startup has raised about $55.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2021

Urbanbase , a Seoul-based company that develops a 3D spatial data platform for interior planning and design, announced today it has raised $11.1 The company had raised Series A funding of $1.8 The company has about 50 B2B customers. million (13 billion won) in a Series B+ round as it scales up.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Founded in 2013, the Bay Area-based company provides centimeter-accurate 3D scanning services, primarily for construction sites and mining operations. In particular, the company is seeking to work with sites where connectivity is limited. That is typically mining companies, operating in all of these remote regions.”.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 27, 2020

A startup company is in the early stages of building a proof-of-concept that would allow local hospitals to employ 3D printers to manufacture ventilators and other medical equipment to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The post Startup Aims to Manufacture Ventilators Using 3D Printers appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

” Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley steps back from the company. Just under a year ago, Crowley stepped down from his full-time role at Foursquare after more than a decade at the company. “What are the things that we want to see exist in the world?

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The Hustle

JANUARY 22, 2024

That kind of changes things.The footwear in question is a collaboration between London shoe brand Vivobarefoot and material science company Balena, per The Guardian. Customers will have their feet 3D-scanned in stores and their shoes will be custom printed over 30 hours.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Online interior design startup Havenly is acquiring direct-to-consumer home furnishing brand The Inside , the company announced on Thursday. The company’s e-commerce platform is connected to hundreds of retailers for clients to make direct purchases. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

The investment will be used to accelerate the development and commercialization of GB’s AI and 3D vision-based “autonomous mobile robots” or “AMRs” These perform simple tasks such as transporting, picking up and dropping off products in order to free up humans to perform more valuable tasks.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The company started in Switzerland a couple of years ago with a mission to stop people from buying disposable Ikea stuff for a two-year stint in an apartment, replacing it with well-styled, well-thought-out interior design suggestions and robust, reusable and recyclable furniture. “It’s a great time to build a rent-to-own company.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Carly writes that the company’s owner, GoTo, says hackers stole customers’ encrypted backups. If you like the great outdoors : Strava, the activity tracking and social community platform, acquired Fatmap, a 3D mapping platform for the great outdoors, to make that next hike a doozy, Paul reports. Sarah has more.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

It also invests in non-food startups: For example, companies that make alternatives to leather. So far, Good Startup has invested in 21 companies out of a target of 35 startups. . Founded in 2021, Good Startup wants to remove animals from the global food system. Nowadays puts its spin on plant-based nuggets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The undisclosed investment by Daimler is in addition to the $170 million that Luminar raised as part of its merger with special purpose acquisition company Gores Metropoulos Inc. Luminar will become a publicly traded company through its merger with Gores, which is expected to close in late 2020. billion SPAC merger.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

III that will value the company at $2 billion. The agreement marks the latest lidar company to turn to so-called blank check companies or SPACs in lieu of a traditional IPO process. Lidar, light detection and ranging radar, measures distance using laser light to generate a highly accurate 3D map of the world around the car.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

The Kimoa E-Bike is made-to-measure for each rider, due to its custom 3D-printed carbon fiber frame, which is built by Arevo, an additive manufacturing company. In 2020, Arevo launched its own 3D-printed e-bike company, Superstrata. . That’s also due to Arevo’s method for 3D printing. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Client upload a CAD file or 2D drawings, chooses parts and manufacturing methods (3D printing, injection molding, etc.) According to CEO Dave Evans, the company manufactured four million parts in 2021 alone. All told, Fictiv says its created 19 million mechanical parts for 3,000 companies. Image Credits: Fictiv.

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CTOvision

JULY 26, 2015

Defense and security company Saab and DigitalGlobe Inc., a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, launch the joint venture – Vricon Inc. – to produce photo-realistic 3D products and digital elevation models globally for enterprise and government geospatial markets with unmatched coverage and delivery timelines.

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