TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Oakland-based Mighty Buildings , which is on a quest to build homes using 3D printing, robotics and automation, has raised a $22 million extension to its Series B round of funding. The company claims to be able to 3D print structures “two times as quickly with 95% less labor hours and 10-times less waste” than conventional construction.

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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. Image Credits: Luma. Image Credits: Luma.

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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. It lists Headmade Materials , LightForce Orthodontics and Conflux Technology among some of its marquee investments. Scrona has big manufacturing plans for its tiny 3D printing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

The startup looks to put a slew of key emerging technologies to work in service of building houses with fewer workers in a significantly truncated time frame. Specifically, the company relies on robotic and 3D printing solutions. The former involves a set of 26 different robotic arm attachments to assist with the construction.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

million seed planned to accelerate its 3D printing technology. On the one hand, there’s 3D printing. On the other hand, there’s cheaper technologies such as traditional extrusion, electrospinning and so on, which is really cheap, affordable and scalable. Turns out the Baltimore-based firm got all that and more.

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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

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. Now that the company has laid the foundation on how to automate 3D imagery on scale, de Vigan intends to deploy the new funding into scaling nfinite’s sales and marketing teams.

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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 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

JANUARY 24, 2023

Strava , the activity tracking and social community platform used by more than 100 million people globally, has acquired Fatmap , a European company that’s building a high-resolution 3D global map platform for the great outdoors. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These days, the ETH Zurich spinoff has even bigger ambitions, with plans to scale its tiny printing tech in a bid to bring additive manufacturing/3D printing into the world of mass manufacturing. The 80 × 115 micrometer picture of clownfish was a great talking point for a firm in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

“The Digital Metal team has created a robust and scalable solution that complements our existing technologies. “Markforged’s easy-to-use platform, best-in-class software capabilities and material expertise felt like a natural fit for the future of our technology,” said Christian Lönne, CEO of Digital Metal.

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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.” But it’s also a kind of launching pad for the underlying technology that powers OPT’s additive manufacturing offering.

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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. 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.

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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. Firehawk CEO Will Edwards (left) and chief scientist Ron Jones hold 3D-printed fuel tubes Image Credits: Firehawk Aerospace.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Iconem, compañía especializada en la conservación digital con sede en París, ha empleado la fotogrametría avanzada e IA para crear réplicas en 3D de los monumentos históricos y sitios arqueológicos más famosos del mundo. A continuación, Iconem creó un modelo 3D ultrapreciso, es decir, un gemelo digital de la Basílica.

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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. Despite the potential of the technology, Stämm is still in the early stages of commercializing it.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

But that was like 13 or 14 years ago, and technology has changed,” Crowley tells TechCrunch. “We think that if you’re going to build something for consumers, you need to build on technology that’s widely available today,” Miesnieks says. “What are the things that we want to see exist in the world?

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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 Urbanbase is seeking an acquisition target in prop-tech and construction technology sectors, Ha told TechCrunch. million (13 billion won) in a Series B+ round as it scales up.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Its first customers include Aurora Innovation, which makes self-driving software for commercial trucks, and game developer Niantic, which is building a 3D map of the world. The skills Uber requires its new gig workers to have vary, Chris Brummitt, the company’s senior director for communications in Asia-Pacific, said via email.

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CIO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

At yet when it is home to many of your company’s assets, as is the case for ConocoPhillips, sometimes the best IT strategy is to bring technologies closer to the edge. Carlo had an inkling that 3D printing could really change the game.” And the new plugs [produced via 3D printing] perform just as well, if not better,” says De Bernardi.

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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 Relativity’s post-money valuation now stands at $4.2 Image Credits: Relativity.

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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.

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JUNE 5, 2024

Restor3d , a North Carolina-based maker of 3D printed personalized orthopedic implants, locked up a $70 million financing — even as investors continue to cool on 3D tech startups. “With this capital, we can accelerate our efforts to transform orthopedic care through 3D printed personalized implants.” .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

But Howe tells us it moved into mobile sizing shortly after the 2017 launch of the iPhone X — which added a 3D depth camera to Apple’s smartphone. Neatsy wants to reduce sneaker returns with 3D foot scans. The Canadian startup hasn’t always been focused on feet. “This summer I had an aha ! mm accuracy.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A digital workspace is a secured, flexible technology framework that centralizes company assets (apps, data, desktops) for real-time remote access. Digital workspaces encompass a variety of devices and infrastructure, including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), data centers, edge technology, and workstations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Late last year, Skydio brought on additional senior talent to help it address enterprise and government customers, including a software development lead who had experience at Tesla and 3D printing company Carbon. The applications of Skydio’s technology for commercial, public sector and enterprise organizations are many and varied.

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The Crazy Programmer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

3D and Virtual Reality. With more commercial access to 3D rendering and virtual reality tools, web designers can implement newer technology in their projects. Both 3D and virtual reality are known to provide interaction with the audiences, and sometimes, it is something that a business is looking for.

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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. The new funding will also be used to expand eYs3D’s product development and launch a series of 3D computer vision modules.

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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. We get them to a better result by leveraging technology.” He has a deep background in 3D printing and hard tech. Two value props came out of Align Technology.

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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. Image Credits: The company’s technology works with off-the-shelf drones, including ones manufactured by DJI. That’s where we saw the most demand, initially.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

strawberry producer, began to deploy the technology in June, the system working in tandem with human pickers. Collaborative is proud to get behind a technology that can heighten crop security while creating safer jobs across the food supply chain, and we’re confident that Traptic is the right team to see that vision through.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

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. 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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Founder and CEO Corey Jaskolski’s experience includes work with both National Geographic (where he was recently named Explorer of the Year ) and a 3D media startup. Synthetaic is a startup working to create data — specifically images — that can be used to train artificial intelligence. Sound like an odd match? Image Credits: Synthetaic.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

“There is Zoom and there are phone calls, but we think there is a big aspect of remote meetings [not being addressed by technology today],” said Bassan-Eskenazi. We think moving video conferencing from 2D to 3D could even make it better than face-to-face.”

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A complete prompt might read: “3D Voxel Art; wide angle shot of a bright and colorful world.” For instance, in the prompt “A realistic 3D render of a red apple,” the clarity of tokenization can significantly affect the quality of the output image. Similarly, emphasizing multiple aspects, as in “A (photorealistic:1.4) (3D render:1.2)

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