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Wikifactory has raised $4.5M for its ‘GitHub for hardware’ to make almost anything remotely

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Today Wikifactory , billing itself as a “GitHub for hardware”, announced it has closed a $3 million funding round, taking it to a total of $4.5M, pre-series A. This allows product developers to review and discuss 3D models in more than 30 file formats in real time. Perhaps that day is edging closer.

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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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AM Ventures extrudes $100M to support industrial 3D printing

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Munich-based AM Ventures just closed a $100 million fund focusing specifically on the early growth stages of industrial and commercial 3D printing applications. million financing into the ultra-high-resolution 3D printing company that can print finely enough to aid in semiconductor and display manufacturing. . The firm led the $9.5

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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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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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