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. .

3D 219

3D Automotive Scalability Industry 219

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.

3D 248

3D Training Hardware Study 248

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. Image Credits: Luma.

3D 247

3D VR Construction Retail 247

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.

3D 252

3D Real Estate Retail Metrics 252

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.

3D 218

3D Systems Review Technical Review Automotive 218

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.

3D 227

3D Engineering Testing Systems Review 227

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.

3D 241

3D Nonprofit Construction Fintech 241

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.

3D 187

3D Course Technology Company 187

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.

3D 246

3D Insurance Travel Automotive 246

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.

3D 224

3D Industry Testing Software Review 224

TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Avataar helps direct-to-consumer brands and e-commerce marketplaces with shaping their consumer journeys with 3D rendition of products. Firms can integrate Avataar’s plug-and-play technology into their systems, which then allows customers to visualize products in real-life size and feel in their living room using the phone’s camera.

3D 232

3D Virtualization VR eCommerce 232

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.

3D 189

3D VR Tools B2C 189

CIO

JULY 20, 2023

Driven by cutthroat competition and significant shifts in customer expectations, retail companies are striving to align themselves with the changing landscape, with IT playing a crucial role in their ability to achieve this. This has helped the company cut down out-of-stock episodes by as much as 30%, while reducing waste and overstocking.

Retail 189

Retail Trends Technology 3D 189

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.”.

Off-The-Shelf 246

Off-The-Shelf 3D Company Construction 246

TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

But that was like 13 or 14 years ago, and technology has changed,” Crowley tells TechCrunch. ” 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.

Banking 313

Banking 3D Social Network 313

OTS Solutions

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Introduction to the Digital Transformation for Dental Practices Dental practices are transforming as digital technology is reshaping oral healthcare. In this article, we explore how digital technology is helping to advance dental care, improve efficiency, and empower dental professionals and patients alike.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Technology 3D Healthcare 130

TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Proving that Central and Eastern Europe remains a powerhouse of hardware engineering matched with software, Gideon Brothers (GB), a Zagreb, Croatia-based robotics and AI startup, has raised a $31 million Series A round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), the venture and growth arm of Koch Industries Inc.,

3D 140

3D Hardware Transportation Mobile 140

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.

Company 197

Company 3D Retail Groups 197

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.

Company 257

Company Blockchain 3D Sustainability 257

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The deal, which comes just days after Daimler and Waymo announced plans to work together to build an autonomous version of the Freightliner Cascadia truck, is the latest action by the German manufacturer to move away from robotaxis and shared mobility and instead focus on how automated vehicle technology can be applied to freight.

Company 331

Company 3D Transportation Hardware 331

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The trials and tribulations that a giant company like Meta (née Facebook) has been facing in overcoming skepticism , creating user interest (let alone revenue) and building quality experiences for its all-in metaverse vision highlights just how much work lies ahead for any company working in mixed reality.

VR 220

VR Video Technology Artificial Inteligence 220

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

AEye, a lidar startup that developed its technology for use in autonomous vehicles as well as to support advanced driver assistance systems in passenger cars, is going public through a merger with CF Finance Acquisition Corp. III that will value the company at $2 billion. with a market value of $1.8 billion SPAC merger.

Company 246

Company Automotive 3D .Net 246

CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

Similarly, clothing brand Under Armour recently produced an ad that used AI-generated 3D models of the British boxer Anthony Joshua, based on videos they took of him in the past. A chief commercial officer of a clothing company learned to use Midjourney to create images of new clothing products.

Software Review 324

Software Review Enterprise Generative AI Artificial Inteligence 324

TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

eYs3D Microelectronics , a fabless design house that focuses on end-to-end software and hardware systems for computer vision technology, has raised a $7 million Series A. ARM, the microprocessor company, will integrate eYs3D’s chips into its CPU and NPUs. It will use its new funding to build its embedded chip business in new markets.

3D 215

3D IoT Virtualization Retail 215

The Crazy Programmer

JULY 18, 2021

In 1966, Ivan Sutherland invented the first head-mounted display which contained two separate wireframe images and gave a 3D effect. The 1970s saw a major change in computer graphics that enabled practical computer graphics technology like the MOS LSI technology. Real-time advancements were made in 3D graphics in arcade games.

3D 278

3D Film Games Video 278

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

With the snappy slogan “one size fits one”, LightForce Orthodontics creates custom, 3D-printed brackets and placement trays for braces. Investors paid attention, and one investor, in particular, wanted to get its fangs into the company and place itself on the cap table. He has a deep background in 3D printing and hard tech.

3D 275

3D Marketing Innovation Compliance 275

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

One of the more interesting ventures to emerge from the space recently is Poly, which lets designers create video game and other virtual assets, including textures for 3D models, using only text prompts. Poly’s first tool in its planned web-based suite generates 3D textures with physically-based rendering maps.

Generative AI 209

Generative AI 3D Games VR 209

CIO

APRIL 12, 2024

As a result, AI skills are now among the most sought-after skills, even as companies retrench via layoffs. A quick scan of these roles tells you all you need to know about what companies are looking for: hard-to-acquire skills around AI, machine learning, and software development.

Open Source 312

Open Source Machine Learning Artificial Inteligence Generative AI 312

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

LG’s innovation center — LG Nova among friends — today announced that it has selected the first 50 companies for its Mission for the Future global challenge competition. From 1,300 applicants, the company picked its first cohort to start building opportunities with the startups. TRIPP, Inc.

3D 221

3D Artificial Inteligence VR Programming 221

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The potential applications for a planetary “digital twin” are many and various, and the company has a head start even on mapping giants like Google. was spun out of gaming studio Bongfish with the intention, founder and CEO Michael Putz told me, of taking their world building technology beyond game environments.

3D 255

3D Technical Advisors Technical Review Artificial Inteligence 255

TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

At its annual GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced a set of cloud services designed to help businesses build and run generative AI models trained on custom data and created for “domain-specific tasks,” like writing ad copy. As of today, the NeMo generative AI cloud service is in early access.

Generative AI 217

Generative AI Training 3D Cloud 217

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The company also launched a suite of software for commercial and enterprise customers, its first departure from the consumer drone market where it had been focused prior to that raise since its founding in 2014. The applications of Skydio’s technology for commercial, public sector and enterprise organizations are many and varied.

3D 329

3D Film Construction Enterprise 329

TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

When Masaya Aso worked on autonomous driving technology at Bosch in Japan and Germany, he realized that “many tasks were still manual as over 85% of warehouses have almost no automation at all.” billion JPY) of Series A funding that values the company at approximately $38.8 with a fresh injection of about $10.7 million (1.45

Automotive 222

Automotive 3D Mobile Industry 222

TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

The company returned some service order charges and promised to refund furniture deliveries to those who completed a form. While the company’s website remains operational, Modsy recently deleted its Twitter and Facebook pages and made its Instagram account private. But Tellerman had declined to confirm this at the time.

3D 224

3D Artificial Inteligence Retail Report 224

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

ICON , a construction tech company that’s raised more than $400 million in funding, has landed a new contract from NASA to develop new systems to build on the moon and Mars. ICON, which is best-known for its 3D-printed homes, has been working on Project Olympus for some time. The company was awarded the initial SBIR grant from the U.S.

Construction 248

Construction 3D Hardware Small Business 248

TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

strawberry producer, began to deploy the technology in June, the system working in tandem with human pickers. That follows a pilot in 2020, when many agriculture companies were seeking assistance amid pandemic-related shortages. The company has raised $8.4 Traptic uses 3D vision and robotic arms to harvest ripe strawberries.

3D 277

3D Travel Mobile System 277

Openxcell

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Technology trends in the gaming industry are growing rapidly due to robust digital transformations. It’s all thanks to the newest gaming technologies shaping the future of gaming. Conversely, streaming video games have fueled a dramatic boom in 3D game development. billion by 2030.

Games 52

Games Technical Review Trends Technology 52