Formlabs
Formlabs is a 3D printing technology developer and manufacturer. The Somerville, Massachusetts-based company was founded in September 2011 by three MIT Media Lab students. The company develops and manufactures 3D printers and related software and consumables. It raised nearly $3 million in a Kickstarter campaign and created the Form 1, Form 1+, Form 2, Form Cell, Form 3, Form 3L, Form 4, Form 4L, Form Auto, Fuse 1, and Fuse 1+ stereolithography and selective laser sintering 3D printers and accessories. History Formlabs was founded by Maxim Lobovsky, Natan Linder, and David Cranor, who met as students at the MIT Media Lab while taking a class called "How to Make (almost) Anything". The founders also drew on their experience with MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms Fab Lab program, as well as Lobovsky's experience with the Fab@Home project at Cornell University. Formlabs was officially founded in September 2011 to develop the first desktop-sized, easy-to-use, and affordable ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Stereolithography
Stereolithography (SLA or SL; also known as vat photopolymerisation, optical fabrication, photo-solidification, or resin printing) is a form of 3D printing technology used for creating models, prototypes, patterns, and production parts in a layer by layer fashion using photochemical processes by which light causes chemical monomers and oligomers to cross-link together to form polymers. U.S. Patentbr>4,575,330(“Apparatus for Production of Three-Dimensional Objects by Stereolithography”) Those polymers then make up the body of a three-dimensional solid. Research in the area had been conducted during the 1970s, but the term was coined by Chuck Hull in 1984 when he applied for a patent on the process, which was granted in 1986. Stereolithography can be used to create prototypes for products in development, medical models, and computer hardware, as well as in many other applications. While stereolithography is fast and can produce almost any design, it can be expensive. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3D Systems
3D Systems Corporation is an American company based in Rock Hill, South Carolina, that engineers, manufactures, and sells 3D printers, 3D printing materials, 3D printed parts, and application engineering services. The company creates product concept models, precision and functional prototypes, master patterns for tooling, as well as production parts for direct digital manufacturing. It uses proprietary processes to fabricate physical objects using input from computer-aided design and manufacturing software, or 3D scanning and 3D sculpting devices. 3D Systems' technologies and services are used in the design, development, and production stages of many industries, including aerospace, automotive, healthcare, dental, entertainment, and durable goods. The company offers a range of professional- and production-grade 3D printers, as well as software, materials, and the online rapid part printing service on demand. It is notable within the 3D printing industry for developing ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kickstarter
Kickstarter, PBC is an American Benefit corporation, public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York City, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". As of April 2025, Kickstarter has received US$8.71 billion in pledges from 24.1 million backers to fund 277,302 projects, such as films, music, stage shows, comics, journalism, video games, board games, technology, publishing, and food-related projects. People who back Kickstarter projects are offered tangible rewards or experiences in exchange for their pledges. This model traces its roots to subscription model of arts patronage, in which artists would go directly to their audiences to fund their work. History Kickstarter launched on April 28, 2009, by Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, and Charles Adler. ''The New York Times'' called Kickstarter "the people's National Endowment for the Arts, NEA". ''Time (magazine), Time'' named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shenzhen Capital Group
Shenzhen Capital Group Co., Ltd (SCGC; ) is a state-owned venture capital company based in Shenzhen, China. It is affiliated with the Shenzhen Government and its investments cover industries supported by national policies. According to South China Morning Post, from January 2019 to May 2020, it was the second most active venture capital firm in China. Background SCGC was established by the Shenzhen Government in 1999. The firm is considered one of China's most active investors in hard technology. Most of its investments are in Chinese companies. More than 200 companies in its portfolio have gone public. Notable investments * Desktop Metal * Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation * Jinko Solar * BGI Group * NetDragon Websoft * Xiami Music Network * Formlabs * Makeblock * Le Vision Pictures ''LeVision Pictures'' is a Chinese film production and distribution company that was founded in 2011 as a subsidiary of LeEco, a Chinese conglomerate established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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MIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Lab is a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, growing out of MIT's Architecture Machine Group in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, School of Architecture. Its research does not restrict to fixed academic disciplines, but draws from technology, multimedia, media, sciences, science, art, and design. , Media lab's research groups include Neuroscience, neurobiology, Biomimetics, biologically inspired fabrication, Social robot, socially engaging robots, Affective computing, emotive computing, bionics, and Tod Machover#Hyperinstruments, hyperinstruments. The media lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and former MIT President Jerome Wiesner, and is housed in the Wiesner building, Wiesner Building (designed by I. M. Pei), also known as Building E15. The lab has been written about in the popular press since 1988, when Stewart Brand published ''The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T.'', and its work was a regular featur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and former computer engineer who was the chief executive officer of Google from 2001 to 2011 and the company's chairman, executive chairman from 2011 to 2015. He also was the executive chairman of parent company Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017, and technical advisor at Alphabet from 2017 to 2020. Since 2025, he has been the CEO of Relativity Space, an aerospace manufacturing company. As of May 2025, he's the world's 55th wealthiest person according to ''Bloomberg Billionaires Index'' with an estimated net worth of 32 billion. As an intern at Bell Labs, Schmidt in 1975 was co-author of Lex (software), Lex, a software program to generate Lexical analysis, lexical analysers for the Unix Operating system, computer operating system. In 1983, he joined Sun Microsystems and worked in various roles. From 1997 to 2001, he was chief executive officer (CEO) of Novell. Schmidt has been on various other boards in acad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fab@Home
Fab@Home is a multi-material 3D printer, launched in 2006. It was one of the first two open-source DIY 3D printers in the world, at a time when all other additive manufacturing machines were still proprietary. The Fab@Home and the RepRap are credited with sparking the consumer 3D printing revolution. Background Up until 2005, all 3D printers were industrial scale, expensive and proprietary. The high cost and closed nature of the 3D printing industry at the time limited the accessibility of the technology to the masses, the range of materials that could be used and the level of exploration that could be done by end-users. The goal of the Fab@Home project was to change this situation by creating a versatile, low-cost, open and "hackable" printer to accelerate technology innovation and its migration into the consumer and Maker space. Since its open-source release in 2006, hundreds of Fab@Home 3D printers were built across the world, and its design elements could be found in many la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Somerville, Massachusetts
Somerville ( ) is a city located directly to the northwest of Boston, and north of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the city had a total population of 81,045 people. With an area of , the city has a density of , making it the most densely populated municipality in New England and the List of United States cities by population density, 19th most densely populated incorporated municipality in the country. Somerville was established as a town in 1842, when it was separated from Charlestown, Massachusetts, Charlestown. In 2006, the city was named the best-run city in Massachusetts by ''The Boston Globe''. In 1972, 2009, and 2015, the city received the All-America City Award. It is home to Tufts University, which has its campus along the Somerville and Medford, Massachusetts, Medford border. Tufts, alongside Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, makes up one corner of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Joi Ito
is a Japanese entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is the president of Chiba Institute of Technology. He is on the Board of Directors for the Gelephu Mindfulness City in Bhutan where he is also the Chairman of the Gelephu Investment Development Corporation (GIDC). He is a former director of the MIT Media Lab, former professor of the practice of media arts and sciences at MIT, and a former visiting professor of practice at Harvard Law School. Ito has received recognition for his role as an entrepreneur focused on Internet and technology companies and has founded, among other companies, PSINet Japan, Digital Garage, and Infoseek Japan. Ito is a general partner of Neoteny Labs, and former board member of Creative Commons (where he was CEO), The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The New York Times Company, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Mozilla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Enterprise Associates
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is an American-based venture capital firm. NEA focuses investment stages ranging from seed stage through growth stage across an array of industry sectors. With over $25 billion in committed capital, NEA is one of the world's largest venture capital firms.NEA - History (Company Website)New Enterprise Associates Closes $2.6 Billion In One Of Largest Venture Funds Ever Forbes, July, 2012 History NEA was founded in 1977 by C. Richard Kramlich, C. Richar ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Pitango
Pitango VC, established in 1993, is Israel’s largest and longest standing venture capital fund with over $3 billion USD under management as of 2025, with a recent vintage in 2020 of $750M USD making it the largest venture group in Israel. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel ( Sarona) Pitango has raised 14 venture funds, invested in more than 300 companies and accomplished over 90 companies becoming publicly traded in NASDAQ and NYSE or acquired by strategic players such as Google, Apple, IBM, Cisco. Investors are institutional and strategic investors from the US, Europe, Japan, and SouthEast Asia and have included Time Warner, Citigroup, Eastman Kodak, Deutsche Bank and HarbourVest Partners. Pitango VC invests through three dedicated funds, Pitango First (early-stage investments), Pitango HealthTech (HealthTech investments), and Pitango Growth (growth investments). Notable successful investments made by the firm include Via, DriveNets, AppsFlyer, Forescout, and Varonis. Dom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |