Money & Funding
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Increased net sales, profit, acquisitions and new products on the way to fuel an active and healthy global community of users and resellers. Swedish bioprinting startups CELLINK presented the results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2018/2019, showing continued growth profit. In the second quarter alone, net sales amounted to €2.3…
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The Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs (I4MS) program has announced the availability of €300,000 in EU funding to accelerate the competitiveness of small and medium-sized businesses in the 3D printing sector. The funding will be allocated based on an AMable call which invites SMEs from across Europe to submit “proposals that…
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SLM Solutions Group AG has received a capital injection of €13 million will continue to fund growth and development projects. The funds came from Elliott, SLM’s largest shareholder, together with ENA Investment Capital. In 2014, an activist fund tied to Elliott was responsible for foiling the acquisition by GE (which then…
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Prodways fiscal 2018 closed with impressive results, almost doubling the previous fiscal year and recording revenues of €60.9 million, compared to €34.8 million in 2017. This marked a up 75.0% year-on-year increment and exceeded the annual target of €58 million, which had previously been upgraded. This increase reflects growth in…
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It is known that the stock market does not necessarily follow “real industry” trends. Voxeljet is no exception. After overcoming startup challenges, the German large format binder jetting company has been growing steadily, with voxeljet fiscal year 2018 closing at +12.2% and some $26 million in generated sales, after a…
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Born as a University research group in Barcelona, BCN3D has sold some 5,000 3D printers to date to clients such as BMW, Samsung, Louis Vuitton, Nissan, NASA, HTC, SEAT and ALBA Synchrotron, building a global network of 60 distribution partners. Now the research group that invented the IDEX 3D printing technology…
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3D Hubs, the end-user centered, distributed 3D printing network turned professional digital manufacturing service, closed yet another funding round, this time totaling $18M in Series C funding. With this, the company created by Brian Garret and Bram De Zwart expects to continue to make advanced manufacturing accessible to engineers worldwide…
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3D printer manufacturer Markforged has raised $82 million through a Series D investment round led by Summit Partners. The funding round also saw participation from existing investors Matrix Partners, Microsoft’s Venture Fund M12 and Porsche SE. The multi-million dollar investment will enable Markforged to accelerate its product roadmap—including the release…
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When 3D printing stocks peaked in 2013 it was just a temporary bubble driven by the public discovering this technology for the first time. While stocks of 3D printing hardware companies dropped in the aftermath, those of 3D software companies like Dassault and Autodesk continued to rise: it may have…
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SmarTech Analysis, the leading industry analysis firm specializing in additive manufacturing (AM) markets, has published a new report on AM adoption in the eyewear industry titled, “Markets for 3D-Printed Eyewear 2019-2028”. The report forecasts that the 3D printed eyewear market will grow significatopntly over the next decade, driven by the…
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