TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

According to a recent survey of 16,000 Snapchat users in 16 markets, 92% of Gen Zers want to use AR and VR for online shopping. Retailers can save time and costs by using PlicAR without building their own 3D modeling platform, he added. RECON Labs claims it has more than 10,000 products that are 2D converted into 3D content.

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MAY 3, 2022

million seed planned to accelerate its 3D printing technology. The company notes that 70% of the meat market revolves around whole cuts — a stark contrast to what other alternative meats offer. On the one hand, there’s 3D printing. Meanwhile, it’s hoping to bring its printers to market in the next year and a half.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

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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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. ICON was founded in late 2017 and launched during SXSW in March 2018 with the first permitted 3D-printed home in the U.S. and Mexico. for developer 3Strands in Austin, Texas.

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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

MAY 16, 2023

” Image Credits: Rooms.xyz The idea for Rooms was inspired by a combination of factors, explains co-founder Jason Toff — namely, that 3D model creation today was far too difficult. Prior to Rooms, Toff spent ten years at Google, off and on, in product marketing and product management, including at YouTube, Area 120, and in VR/AR.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

“With Markforged’s experience and go-to-market scale, we are confident that we will be able to grow our technology together and help more manufacturers produce the high-volume metal parts they need to drive highly productive and cost-efficient operations.” million shares of Markforged common stock. billion acquiring Coherent.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Instead, it’s developing a unit that 3D prints a dense network of microchannels that pass cells through the nutrients and oxygen they need. An example of a 3D-printed fluid channel piece. We detected this breach between the will to develop a biological product and the abilities of tools that were out in the market. billion. ).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Vectary , a design platform for 3D and augmented reality (AR), has raised a $7.3 Vectary makes high-quality 3D design more accessible for consumers, garnering over one million creators worldwide, and has more than a thousand digital agencies and creative studios as users. million round led by European fund EQT Ventures.

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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

MARCH 18, 2021

“Fortify has been focused on proving the viability of our product and market opportunity over the past 18+ months, and exceeded our goals set at the beginning of 2020,” CEO Josh Martin said in a release. Recent months have also found the company enlisting other 3D printing vets. As COVID-19 surges, 3D printing is having a moment.

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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 Global metaverse market size is projected to increase $280 billion by 2025 from $30.7 million (13 billion won) in a Series B+ round as it scales up.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Skydio’s fresh capital comes on the heels of its expansion last year into the enterprise market, and it intends to use the considerable pile of cash to help it expand globally and accelerate product development. That pushes it into unicorn territory, with $340 million in total funding and a post-money valuation north of $1 billion.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

3D-printed rocket startup Relativity Space has raised a $650 million Series E, bringing its total raised to over $1.2 Relativity CEO Tim Ellis in an interview with TechCrunch likened 3D printing to a paradigm shift in manufacturing. “I And the design can be easily adjusted to fit market demand. Image Credits: Relativity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

With the snappy slogan “one size fits one”, LightForce Orthodontics creates custom, 3D-printed brackets and placement trays for braces. The market we are really unlocking is the teen and adolescent market, which represents 75% of all cases in the U.S. He has a deep background in 3D printing and hard tech.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Two ex-Sequoia VCs: The most ‘compelling emerging market’ may be America, outside of Silicon Valley. As Mike Murphy at Protocol noted, it’s a bit like Thingiverse, Yeggi or other sites used by 3D-printing hobbyists. Meet Cocoa Press, the Philly startup making a 3D printer for chocolate.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The basis of their technique is turning widely available 2D imagery into accurate 3D representations with machine learning, a bit of smart guesswork, and a lot of computing power. Using all this it creates a plausible 3D reconstruction of the building. But that also necessitates the aforementioned 2D-to-3D method. Blackshark.ai

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

It will use its new funding to build its embedded chip business in new markets. The company’s technology, including integrated circuits, 3D sensors, camera modules and AI-based software, have a wide range of applications, such as robotics, touchless controls, autonomous vehicles and smart retail.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Infinite Reality , a Connecticut-based creator of 3D immersive environments, raised a $350 million round at a $5.1 Crypto’s push Investors in the space see the year-to-year jump in funding being pushed by some changes in the financial market. “I Big deals Perhaps surprisingly, investors went big on several rounds last quarter.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

“The launch of their robotic strawberry picker in commercial fields is a big step forward for the $10 billion strawberry market, and a peek into the future of agricultural production more broadly. Traptic’s system combines 3D cameras and AI vision with robotic arms capable of plucking the fragile fruit without damaging it.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Navigating the choppy e-commerce seas : As reporter Ingrid Lunden writes, “e-commerce is synonymous with shopping on Amazon, but the reality is that a retailer has the option to use a bundle of different channels to sell and market products.” 6 questions investors should ask when evaluating psychedelic biotech companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

housing market. The company has now developed 26 end-of-arm robotic tools, on top of a 3D printing system that can print concrete for exterior, interior and roof structures. The funding round was led by Prime Movers Lab , which focuses on science-driven innovations.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

Robotics startups require expensive equipment — like industrial-grade sensors, 3D printers and controlled environments — for building and testing prototypes. Here’s what our panelists bring to the table, and why we can’t wait to get their take on the topic.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

Founded in 2018, the company’s products now include ZenyumSonic electric toothbrushes; Zenyum Clear, or transparent 3D-printed aligners; and ZenyumClear Plus for more complex teeth realignment cases. If so, they have an in-person consultation with a dentists, including an X-ray and 3D scan.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

Japan is the company’s biggest market today Dalyac said — the reason being that it has an aging population, but one that is also very strong on mobile usage: combining those two, “automation is more than a value add; it’s a must have,” Dalyac said. will overtake Japan as Tractable’s biggest market soon.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Neasty’s approach relies on 3D scanning technology found in the iPhone X or later (aka, the TruthDepth camera for FaceID) — so (currently) it only works for a subset of iOS users. Neatsy wants to reduce sneaker returns with 3D foot scans. But it’s eyeing expanding its fit recommendations with the seed funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Reddit announced the round in a blog post that said the money comes from “existing and new investors” and will allow the company to “make strategic investments in Reddit including video, advertising, consumer products and expanding into international markets.”. The tech giants. for many years.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Several reasons — such as 3D computing and quantum computing. Users are migrating from desktop computers to tablets and smartphones, and the gaming console market continues to grow as mainstream gamers drift away from the PC ( [link] ). But today’s technological landscape is changing more rapidly than ever.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

housing market persists. Abodu has been active in the market, selling and building its ADUs since the fall of 2019. Next, Abodu is eyeing the San Diego market. The biggest difference between the two companies, according to Geary, is that Mighty Buildings is focused on innovation in construction with its 3D-printed method. . “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

3D printing? The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. In that SPACs will not become the chariots that help transport enough unicorns across the private-public market divide and begin to cut down on the rising number of pricey former startups collecting by the exits of Startup Land. The mess is not sector-specific.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Under the brand Nvidia AI Foundations, each individual cloud service — Nvidia NeMo for language models and Nvidia Picasso for image, video and 3D content generation — includes pretrained models, frameworks for data processing, APIs and support from Nvidia engineering staff.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

The company says that it has brought a system to market that is “4x faster than traditional means, at a lower cost and with a much lower carbon footprint.”. It uses a digital fabrication process, such as 3D design files fed to cold-formed steel and Computer Numerical Control machines, to design and produce new homes.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

This new wave of technology involves 3D scans and panoramic X-rays to check nerve and bone health, as well as telehealth apps that allow patients to monitor their progress and check-in with the clinics. -based startups such as SmileDirect. Impress has its own chain of orthodontic clinics in southern Europe and plans to expand internationally.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2022

Mooji Meats: Speedy 3D printing whole cuts. The company has developed a 3D printer capable of producing whole cuts of meat using plant protein or cultured meat cells. They’re developing a 3D-printed cut of Wagyu beef, and expect a prototype to be viable for taste tests within six months, co-founder Insa Mohr told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The cameras in our phones, laptops and, increasingly, home robots and the like are about as small as they can get unless we start doing something different, and that’s just what Metalenz is getting up to — with great success, and now a $30 million funding round to expand its ultra-small 3D imaging tech. Image Credits: Metalenz.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

market, the largest autonomous mobile robots market, which was already $762 million in 2021 and is expected to grow to $3.2 billion by 2028 , accounting for about 40% of the global market size. Naturally, the company’s investors think the company has a good shot at nabbing a meaningful slice of a big market.

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