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Vitro3d, a volumetric 3D printing company has raised $1.3M in an oversubscribed seed round led byBuff Gold Ventures. According to the company, this funding can allow the production of prototype printers that manufacture complex 3D objects in seconds.
Angel investors theDeming Center Venture Fund,Caruso Ventures, andRockies Venture Clubalso participated in this financing round. Vitro3D’s initial focus will be on developing new methods for manufacturing dental aligners and scaffolds for 3D cell culture and tissue engineering. By using its novel cartridge-based geometry, Vitro3D’s advanced volumetric 3D printing technique overcomes the current drawbacks of the photopolymer 3D printing sector and allows for the quick printing of larger and more complex objects.
“Our proprietary volumetric 3D printing technology leverages novel algorithms, proprietary hardware, and materials science allowing us to disrupt industries such as dental aligner manufacturing,” said Dr. Camila Uzcategui, Co-founder, and CEO of Vitro3D. “This funding will enable us to demonstrate the power of our revolutionary 3D printing technology, which offers the potential to change the way complex structures including intricate custom medical products will be rapidly manufactured.”
Overview on Vitro3D
“Vitro3D’s volumetric 3D printer will disrupt how complex and custom products are manufactured in the future,” said Mark Lupa, General Partner of Buff Gold Ventures. “The speed and detail of the products they can produce have broad applicability across multiple industries, and we are excited to work with this great team.”
Vitro3dis also a 3D printing for life sciences company这将打印机带到了患者的护理点。Vitro3D与科罗拉多大学的博尔德大学有关联，并从大学中脱了出来。牙科部门是公司的主要市场。该公司声称，牙科对准工业是基于光的3D打印的最大全球用户，但是该行业当前的生产过程繁琐，浪费和无效。据报道，一个主要问题是，与其打印大量的时间和资源，而不是3D打印牙科对准器，而是通过打印模具浪费了大量的资源
Vetro3D的目标是使用一种新颖的体积3D打印技术直接打印牙齿对准器，该技术较便宜，更快且易于使用。该公司通过使牙医能够使用Vitro3D体积墨盒打印机在现场生产定制对准器，从而解决了最大的市场挑战。
What is volumetric 3D printing?
Volumetric 3D printing, also known as holographic printing or multi-beam additive manufacturing, was created with the objective of achieving fast printing speeds and isotropic mechanical properties. Unlike the traditional layer-by-layer process, volumetric printing creates the entire 3D object at once by irradiating a volume of photosensitive resin from multiple angles.
Earlier,a new volumetric 3D printing techniquewas developed by researchers fromHarvard University和Stanford Universitythat can fabricate resin parts devoid of the use of support structures. The method uses a resin material that contains nanoparticles and only becomes hard when exposed to an extremely focused beam. The researchers have made it possible to print at any point within the resin pool, not just at the surface layer, by varying the laser’s focus throughout the resin vat.
Previously, researchers fromBerlin AldershofScience and Technology Park were working on adual-color volumetric 3D printing techniquethat, in their opinion, outperforms stereolithography and other used 3D printing technologies. Together with IRIS Aldershof chemist Stefan Hecht and physicist Martin Regehly, Dirk Radzinski, the founder of Berlin Aldershof startup companyXolo, led the development of this volumetric printing technique known as Xolography. This method, which addresses speed, surface quality, and material properties, outlines three “serious limitations” of conventional resin printing, according to its developers.
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Featured image shows Volumetric 3D printing in progress. Image via Vitro3D.
