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Five Flute annotates hardware product development into the current millennium

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If you’re working in hardware development, there’s not a lot of options for collaborative work — at least not until Five Flute came along. In a nutshell, Five Flute is an issue-tracking platform for anyone that develops physical products. I spoke with the company’s CEO, and (spoiler alert!)

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Metal 3D printing company Fabric8Labs raises $19M

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The San Diego-based startup specializes in metal 3D printing. Desktop Metal going public in SPAC-led deal that could value 3D printer company at $2.5B. Herman says 3D printing for manufacturing is firmly in Fabric8Labs’ sights. Metal 3D printing company Markforged announces plans to go public via SPAC.

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Mooji is 3D printing plant-based meat

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million seed planned to accelerate its 3D printing technology. On the one hand, there’s 3D printing. Leveraging technologies developed by Harvard SEAS (where co-founder Jochen Mueller did his postdoc), the company is working to produce a system that can perform the process quickly, inexpensively and at scale.

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Bild takes in funding to share, collaborate on hardware designs in the cloud

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When Pradyut Paul was a hardware engineering program manager at Apple, he saw firsthand the challenges of building and sharing hardware products using antiquated tools like email and spreadsheets. Users can use Bild’s web-based viewers to interact with 3D CAD, board files, bill-of-materials, schematics, drawings and simulation data.

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MIT spinoff, OPT, ramps up production of its 3D-printed nasal swab

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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.” We will use the new financing to address the demand for InstaSwab, fuel product development, scale operations and grow the team.”.

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Korean 3D spatial data tool startup Urbanbase closes $11.1M Series B+ round

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Urbanbase , a Seoul-based company that develops a 3D spatial data platform for interior planning and design, announced today it has raised $11.1 Apple also waded into the area of virtual reality, working on developing a high-end VR headset. million (13 billion won) in a Series B+ round as it scales up.

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Croatia’s Gideon Brothers raises $31M for its 3D vision-enabled autonomous warehouse robots

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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., Nenad Baki? and Luca Ascani.

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