冷灌注3D printing developer头饰材料has secured another €2.5 million in funding, taking its total raised to €10.2 million.
Led byAM Ventures, a perennial investor in 3D printing start-ups, the company’s Series A funding round was also supported by existing shareholderBTOV的工业技术基金。一周后，投资的消息到来头戴式材料获得了580万欧元via the欧洲创新委员会（EIC）加速器计划, an initiative set up to scale emerging technologies.
使用其投资者和EIC贡献的资金，Headmade Materials表示，现在打算踏上其制造能力，产品组合和国际销售团队的“广泛扩张”。
“We have been observing Headmade Materials for quite some time and are impressed by the company’s development in the last few years,” said Arno Held, Managing Director of AM Ventures. “The great scope of applications the technology enables and the successful projects that the team of Christian Fischer and Christian Staudigel have carried out speak for themselves.”
“We are very excited to now have become part of the Headmade journey and to take the next steps together.”
Rolling-out ‘ColdMetalFusion’
Spun-off by Co-founders Christian Staudigel and Christian Fischer from theDas Kunststoff-Zentrum（SKZ）研究所在2019年，Headmade Materials围绕其专有冷灌注technology。
尽管该公司的流程被销售为选择性激光烧结（SLS），脱丝和烧结的组合，但它通过其内部开发材料的组成而与传统的SLS区分开来。这些合金可在钨，不锈钢，钴粉和钛迭代术中提供，并嵌入塑料粘合剂，旨在提高其流动性和兼容性。
当在冷融合过程中部署时，头部材料的粉末基本上以SLS般的方式处理，但温度较低，从而减少了加热和冷却所需的时间。然后以可扩展的方法进行后处理，删节和烧结成完全致密的物体，据说可以创建1,000到100,000个零件。
根据头戴式材料的说法，许多“行业领导者”目前正在其工作流程中实施该技术，因为它成功地部署了试点项目。在此类倡议中，该公司与服务局密切合作Element22to developclipless 3D printed titanium pedals，此后他们在Titanumbrand.
Since then, the firms have also come up with weight-optimized parts forSturdy Cycles’Fiadh titanium road bike。在项目的整个过程中，两家公司发现他们能够在成功的故事中促使坚固的周期将其许多零件的生产转移到ColdmetalFusion中，因此他们能够将3D打印功能曲柄臂，框架集和链条元素和链条元素进行。
头戴式资金达到10020万欧元
Following on from last week’s announcement that it had beaten over 1,000 other firms to secure up to €5.8 million worth of EIC funding, Headmade Materials has now further reinforced its coffers with another €2.5 million investment.
Significantly, the company raised this via a Series A funding round led by AM Ventures, a serial investor with a strong track record of helping turn emerging technologies into commercial successes. Currently, the firm has a portfolio of 15 businesses, but it has also invested considerably more elsewhere, helping many start-ups to establish themselves as stalwarts in the 3D printing industry.
Last year, AM Ventures also established a€100 million venture capital fund, and it currently offers to provide promising young firms with seed funding of between €500,000 and €3 million, as a means of helping get their business off the ground.
头饰材料’ fundraising was backed by btov as well, an investor not just focused on 3D printing, but supporting the growth of those developing robotics, industry 4.0, IoT or other advanced technologies. It too has committed huge sums of cash to this (up to €10 million to 5-10 start-ups per year in fact), and just like AM Ventures, it has以前支持的染色体, a very successful finishing firm.
Leveraging its newfound funding, Headmade Materials says that it will “strengthen its position” in a metal 3D printing space it describes as being “one of the growth markets of the next few years.” The company also plans to expand the reach of its technology, by ramping up the production of its proprietary feedstock, as well as launching new alloys and improved hardware alongside its commercial partners.
“With decades of experience in industrial 3D printing, AM Ventures is the perfect fit for us,” added Staudigel. “In addition, the collaboration with our existing investor btov Industrial Technologies Fund has already worked excellently within the AM market. With the support gained, we will accelerate the transformation of metal 3D printing into volume production and, together with our customers, bring numerous applications to market.”
Am Ventures的成功故事
Since being set up byEOSfounder Hans Langer and his family in 2013, AM Ventures has dedicated itself to seeking out 3D printing start-ups with mass-market potential. In the past, it has proven adept at doing this, and its track record is full of success stories that reflect its ability to help those honing novel technologies to commercialize, making Headmade Materials’ backing all the more promising.
3D printing software developer3YOURMIND, for example, has benefited significantly from AM Ventures’ investment, as the firm contributed to its$5.5 million Series A+ funding roundback in 2020. Around a year earlier,光谱术alsogained AM Ventures backing, which enabled it to scale its services to meet demand, and attempt to establish itself as a leader in the silicone 3D printing space.
Elsewhere, AM Ventures’ remaining portfolio companies includeConflux Technology, which recently closed an850万美元（AUD）融资，除了行业中的其他既定名称，例如Lithoz,Sintratec,METSHAPE,Cubicure,Elementum3DandLightforce Orthodontics，后者吸引了5000万美元的C级资金去年。
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