3D Manufacturing

With $100M In Funding, Carbon3D Will Make 3D Manufacturing A Reality

Christine Magee | August 20, 2015

Carbon3D, a startup building 3D printers for manufacturers, has pulled in $100 million in new funding to move 3D printing out of the prototyping phase and into production.
Google Ventures led the Series C round, joined by new investors Yuri Milner, Reinet Investments, and F.I.S., along with existing investors Sequoia Capital, Silver Lake Kraftwerk, and Northgate Capital.
If Carbon3D’s printers look like something out of a Terminator movie, it’s because that’s where co-founder Joseph DeSimone drew the inspiration for the technology.

Traditionally made 3D printed parts are notoriously inconsistent. The mechanical properties vary depending on the direction the parts were printed due to the layer-by-layer approach.Parts printed with CLIP are much more like injection-molded parts. CLIP produces consistent and predictable mechanical properties, creating parts that are smooth on the outside and solid on the inside. Source: http://carbon3d.com/

<more at http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/20/with-100m-in-funding-carbon3d-will-make-3d-manufacturing-a-reality/; related links: http://www.ted.com/talks/joe_desimone_what_if_3d_printing_was_25x_faster?language=en (A New Approach to 3D Printing. [About: By bringing a fresh perspective to the challenges of 3D printing, we are committed to advancing the industry beyond basic prototyping to true 3D manufacturing.]) and http://www.ted.com/talks/joe_desimone_what_if_3d_printing_was_25x_faster?language=en (Joseph DeSimone: What if 3D printing was 100x faster? Filmed March 25, 2015)>