Thousands of new startups are founded every year – emerging companies with the potential to disrupt industry 4.0. To give you a head-start on emerging technologies and startups that will impact additive manufacturing in 2022, we analyzed a total of 444 global additive manufacturing startups and scaleups. Meet five of the most promising startups to watch!
Global Startup Heat Map highlights 5 Additive Manufacturing Startups to Watch in 2022
Out of 444, the five additive manufacturing startups to watch are chosen through the Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered StartUs Insights Discovery Platform, covering over 2 093 000+ startups and scaleups globally. As the world’s largest resource for data on emerging companies, the SaaS platform enables you to scout relevant startups, emerging technologies, and future industry trends quickly and exhaustively.
The Global Startup Heat Map below highlights the five additive manufacturing startups you should watch in 2022 as well as the geo-distribution of the other 439 startups and scaleups we analyzed for this research. We hand-picked the five highlighted 3D printing startups based on our data-driven startup scouting approach, taking into account factors such as location, founding year, the relevance of technology, and funding, among others.
Incus enables Lithography-based Metal Manufacturing
Founding Year: 2019
Location: Vienna, Austria
Partner for: Metal 3D Printing
Industry: Manufacturing
Austrian startup Incus advances metal additive manufacturing through Hammer Lab35, a 3D printer that utilizes lithography-based metal manufacturing (LMM). The 3D printer uses homogeneous dispersion of metal powder in a light-sensitive resin, leading to selective polymerization. This enables manufacturing companies to produce high-performance parts with the same material properties as parts produced by mass production methods like metal injection molding (MIM). Additionally, Hammer Lab35 integrates with existing MIM manufacturing processes without any post-processing machinery or expertise, reducing production costs and time.
Readily3D develops a Bioprinter
Founding Year: 2020
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Partner for: Biofabrication
Industry: BioTech
Swiss startup Readily3D builds Tomolite, a bioprinter that utilizes contactless tomographic illumination technology. The printer rapidly solidifies photosensitive inks in three dimensions using shaped light beams from multiple angles. This shapes sensitive cells and biomaterials into biological systems while maintaining their viability. The low photoinitiator content also reduces cytotoxicity. Additionally, the startup allows direct imports of stereolithography (STL) files of the construct, offering biologists full control over the objects and the printing parameters.
Photosynthetic advances Micro Prototyping
Founding Year: 2019
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Partner for: Microfabrication
Industry: Manufacturing
Photosynthetic is a Dutch startup that enables micro prototyping using 3D lithography. Its patented 3D printer prints objects of feature size less than a micron with a speed of up to 6 cubic millimeters per minute. This eliminates several disadvantages of the traditional lithography production process such as the requirement of a cleanroom environment. Thus, the startup reduces manufacturing costs while saving time on product prototyping.
3Deus Dynamics facilitates Dynamic Molding
Founding Year: 2020
Location: Villeurbanne, France
Partner for: Additive Manufacturing Deposition, Viscoelastic Material Printing
Industries: Transport, Energy, Healthcare
French startup 3Deus Dynamics advances dynamic molding, a type of additive manufacturing deposition (AMD). The startup uses a controlled granular phase that behaves like a dynamic molding system in which inks are dispensed. This enables the manufacturing of viscoelastic materials such as thermoplastics, elastomers, and thermoplastic-elastomer composites, without any limitations of initial rheological, mechanical, and solidification properties of the materials. The startup develops new composites with antimicrobial, electrical, and magnetic properties using specific non-sacrificial powders during the printing process.
Oral3D prints 3D Dental Models
Founding Year: 2019
Location: Rome, Italy
Partner for: Intraoral Examination
Industry: Healthcare
Oral3D is an Italian startup that manufactures 3D dental models. The startup’s software, DICOM CONVERTER, converts computed tomography (CT) scans and intraoral scans into 3D printable models. Moreover, the startup uses a biodegradable material to print the models, enabling sustainability. These 3D models provide dentists a detailed view of patients’ oral condition, especially for implantology as well as periodontal and maxillofacial surgeries.
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