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In July, Desktop Metal appeared in the club of companies with an estimate of more than $ 1 billion. The product of the company is an additive metal production complex. A team of MIT professors, three years of work, the cost of production is multiply lower, printing is ten times faster than existing machines without special requirements for the equipment of the room where the equipment will work. Production of more than two hundred different metals and alloys, including aluminum, bronze and titanium.
The cost of the entire system of additive production with cloud software is $ 120K. 3D-printers that are similar in functionality, which are used in NASA and Boeing, cost about $ 1M and require special production facilities for work.
Desktop Metal is one of the few advanced manufacturing unicorns today, which soon, given the exponential diffusion of production technologies, will be significantly more.
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The company has invested corporate venture funds GE Ventures, BMW i Ventures, Google Ventures and others. The interest of the market is connected with the fact that the investment product is in demand for solving the production problems of the corporations that created these venture funds.
One of the ways to develop global production corporations today is to invest in projects that make business investors more efficient, productive, and digital. Startups in the advanced manufacturing segment received more than $ 3.5 billion in investment in 2016.
Meta, with the augmented reality headset project, started with crowdfunding in 2013, collecting $ 190K. At present, the total funding raised by the company is $ 83.3M from the Lenovo Group, Tencent Holdings and others.
Clearpath Robotics grew out of the interest of four university friends in robotics from the start in 2008. The product is autonomous carts for moving goods inside the workshops of enterprises. Today, the company received funding from corporate venture funds GE Ventures, Caterpillar Ventures and others, totaling $ 40.8M. In 2012, the predecessor of Kiva Systems Inc. Amazon was acquired for $ 775M and is now a division of Amazon Robotics.
The new generation of high-growth fast-growing companies are no longer dotcom bubbles. These projects define and form a new technological structure. The demand for the products of these companies is driven by the needs of machine builders and major manufacturers. Behind the expectations are the goals of global corporations to reduce costs, speed up product launches, and optimize product quality. To build disruptive technologies in their measured production cycles most efficiently and with minimal losses. Large solve their problems with fast.
For two years, Desktop Metal has been developing in stealth mode. Invisibles at the right time, in the right place with the right partners quickly become unicorns.
The cost of the entire system of additive production with cloud software is $ 120K. 3D-printers that are similar in functionality, which are used in NASA and Boeing, cost about $ 1M and require special production facilities for work.
Desktop Metal is one of the few advanced manufacturing unicorns today, which soon, given the exponential diffusion of production technologies, will be significantly more.
')
The company has invested corporate venture funds GE Ventures, BMW i Ventures, Google Ventures and others. The interest of the market is connected with the fact that the investment product is in demand for solving the production problems of the corporations that created these venture funds.
One of the ways to develop global production corporations today is to invest in projects that make business investors more efficient, productive, and digital. Startups in the advanced manufacturing segment received more than $ 3.5 billion in investment in 2016.
Meta, with the augmented reality headset project, started with crowdfunding in 2013, collecting $ 190K. At present, the total funding raised by the company is $ 83.3M from the Lenovo Group, Tencent Holdings and others.
Clearpath Robotics grew out of the interest of four university friends in robotics from the start in 2008. The product is autonomous carts for moving goods inside the workshops of enterprises. Today, the company received funding from corporate venture funds GE Ventures, Caterpillar Ventures and others, totaling $ 40.8M. In 2012, the predecessor of Kiva Systems Inc. Amazon was acquired for $ 775M and is now a division of Amazon Robotics.
The new generation of high-growth fast-growing companies are no longer dotcom bubbles. These projects define and form a new technological structure. The demand for the products of these companies is driven by the needs of machine builders and major manufacturers. Behind the expectations are the goals of global corporations to reduce costs, speed up product launches, and optimize product quality. To build disruptive technologies in their measured production cycles most efficiently and with minimal losses. Large solve their problems with fast.
For two years, Desktop Metal has been developing in stealth mode. Invisibles at the right time, in the right place with the right partners quickly become unicorns.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/373693/
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