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This list showcases the top United States based Founder operating in the Printing space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
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Lars Brubaker
Co-Founder & CEO of MatterHackers
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About MatterHackers: 3D Printing Software, Hardware, & Supplies
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Erik Palitsch
Co-Founder & CEO of Freeform
Erik Palitsch is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Freeform Future.
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About Freeform: Stealth-mode additive manufacturing company.
Thomas Ronacher
Co-Founder & CTO of Freeform
Thomas J. Ronacher is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Freeform Future.
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About Freeform: Stealth-mode additive manufacturing company.
John B. Rogers
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Local Motors
John B. Rogers, Jr. is the CEO and co-founder of Local Motors, a technology company based in Phoenix that designs, builds and sells vehicles. This disruptive company is redefining vehicle development by pairing micro-manufacturing with co-creation. Local Motors is the first company to utilize Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM) in vehicle production, as evidenced when it debuted the world’s first 3D-printed car, the Strati, in September of 2014. Rogers founded Local Motors after serving for seven years in the United States Marine Corps, where he was an Infantry Company Commander. He has worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Co., as an investment analyst at Ewing & Partners, and at a startup medical device company in the People’s Republic of China. He serves as the Chief Investment Officer and Director of the RBR Foundation, a philanthropic foundation focused on education and healthcare. A graduate of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Rogers holds a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar).
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About Local Motors: Local Motors is an American motor vehicle company that creates and delivers safe and accessible mobility solutions for local communities.
James Berdigans
CEO & Founder of Printify
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About Printify: Printify is a marketplace connecting online merchants to major print on demand and dropshipping manufacturers worldwide.
Slava Solonitsyn
CEO and Co-Founder of Mighty Buildings
10 years building companies and investing in startups in Hard Tech, Interactive Digital Media and Gaming. Expert in identifying market opportunities and shaping products for them. Building sales and marketing operations for startups from the ground up. Co-founded hardware incubator Ruvento Ventures which he then scaled to seep capital firm with portfolio companies spanning across Asia, Europe, and the USA. The portfolio includes frontier tech companies such as Boom, Solugen, Eight Sleep, and others.
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About Mighty Buildings: Mighty Buildings is a construction technology company that creates sustainable high-quality homes using 3D printing and robotic automation
Alexey Dubov
Co-Founder & COO of Mighty Buildings
Alexey Dubov is a Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Mighty Buildings.
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About Mighty Buildings: Mighty Buildings is a construction technology company that creates sustainable high-quality homes using 3D printing and robotic automation
Sam Ruben
CSO/Co-Founder of Mighty Buildings
Sam Ruben is the Chief Security Officer and Co-Founder of Mighty Buildings.
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About Mighty Buildings: Mighty Buildings is a construction technology company that creates sustainable high-quality homes using 3D printing and robotic automation
Bradley Rothenberg
Co-Founder and CEO of nTopology
Bradley Rothenberg is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of nTopology.
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About nTopology: nTopology is a company that develops software used in the design and manufacturing of 3D-printed parts and products.
David McCalib
CEO and Co-Founder of Printforia
David is CEO and Co-Founder of Printforia Inc. Helping to bring a team together of former Amazon.com, jet.com, Brandless, GearLaunch executives to tackle the highly fragmented and inefficient supply chain for customized apparel. He has over 15 years of experience in E-Commerce Fulfillment and High Tech Manufacturing. He led the development and deployment of Amazon’s largest machine learning assisted inventory inspection systems, RFID/IoT and Worldwide Engineering groups helping to take new consumable businesses global with Amazon Fresh, Pantry and PrimeNow. David has over 10 patents granted in the areas of Robotics, Medical Device Design, AR/VR and Fulfilment and Delivery Systems. He advises two companies in the US and Brazil in the RFID/IoT industry. David has a graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, and dual bachelors in Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering from OIT.
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About Amazon, Printforia: Printforia is a printing service company that offers real-time fulfillment and delivery of customized apparel.
Mark Gosselin
Founder & CTO of Glowforge
Mark did the mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, firmware, and v1 software at the past two companies he founded. His last startup sold for $112M. He built a combination plasma torch, 3D printer, laser, & milling machine in his garage. For fun.
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About Glowforge: Glowforge is a manufacturer of 3D laser printers intended to offer printing services on a wide range of materials and many more.
Jonah Myerberg
Co-Founder & CTO of Desktop Metal
Jonah Myerberg is a Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Desktop Metal, a company committed to accelerating the transformation of manufacturing with end-to-end metal 3D printing solutions. As CTO, Myerberg is responsible for leading the vision and direction of Desktop Metal’s 3D printing solutions. His duties include translating the technology behind the company’s metal 3D printing systems into reliable parts for customers, and identifying opportunities to expand manufacturing capabilities through additive manufacturing. Prior to joining Desktop Metal in 2015, Myerberg held senior positions with a variety of organizations focused on battery development and performance, including Renovo Motors and Boston Impact, which he founded, and A123Systems. At A123Systems, Myerberg established a new business unit focused on the development of high performance batteries. His team designed a new high performance cell for Formula One, as well as number of automotive partners. Additionally, he helped launch Gradiant Corp., where he managed the deployment and operation of large scale water desalination plants that converted fracking water into fresh water. Myerberg also held engineering and product development roles at both Bose and Black & Decker. Myerberg earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing from Johns Hopkins University.
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About Desktop Metal: Desktop Metal is a provider of metal and carbon fiber 3D printing accessible to all engineers, designers, and manufacturers.
Ric Fulop
Co-Founder and CEO of Desktop Metal
Ric Fulop is the CEO and co-founder of Desktop Metal, a company committed to accelerating the transformation of manufacturing with end-to-end metal 3D printing solutions. Founded in 2015 by leaders in advanced manufacturing, materials science, and robotics, the company is addressing the unmet challenges of speed, cost, and quality to make metal 3D printing an essential tool for engineers and manufacturers around the world. Prior to founding Desktop Metal in October 2015, Ric was a General Partner at North Bridge, a VC fund with $3 billion under management, for five years following a fifteen-year career as an entrepreneur. Fulop is the founder of six technology companies, including A123 Systems, Boston’s largest IPO in the past decade and one of the world’s largest automotive lithium ion suppliers with revenue exceeding $500M in 2016. At North Bridge, Ric led the software and 3D investing practices, and was an early stage investor and board member in Dyn (acquired by Oracle for $600 million), Onshape, MarkForged, Salsify, Lytro and Gridco. Ric is a former Board Member of the Electric Drive Transportation Association and holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School where he was a Sloan Fellow.
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About Desktop Metal: Desktop Metal is a provider of metal and carbon fiber 3D printing accessible to all engineers, designers, and manufacturers.
Christopher A Schuh
Co-Founder of Desktop Metal
Christopher A. Schuh is a co-founder of Desktop Metal, where he has helped guide the company’s advances in materials science. A leading expert in metallurgy, Professor Schuh also serves as the Department Head and the Danae and Vasilis Salapatas Professor of Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. Prof. Schuh earned his B.S. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He has published more than 220 papers and dozens of patents, and received a variety of awards acknowledging his research accomplishments, including his appointment as a MacVicar Fellow of MIT, acknowledging his contributions to engineering education, and his election as Fellow of The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society. In addition to Desktop Metal, Prof. Schuh has co-founded a number of metallurgical companies, including Xtalic Corporation and Veloxint Corporation.
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About Desktop Metal, Veloxint: Desktop Metal is a provider of metal and carbon fiber 3D printing accessible to all engineers, designers, and manufacturers.
Ely Sachs
Co-Founder of Desktop Metal
Emanuel “Ely” Sachs, a pioneer of 3D printing, is the inventor of binder jet printing and a co-founder of Desktop Metal, a company committed to accelerating the transformation of manufacturing with end-to-end metal 3D printing solutions. Prof. Sachs is also a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Founded in 2015 by leaders in advanced manufacturing, materials science, and robotics, Desktop Metal is addressing the unmet challenges of speed, cost, and quality to make metal 3D printing an essential tool for engineers and manufacturers around the world. As a visionary and inventor of the MIT 3D printing process and binder jet printing, Prof. Sachs has played a key role in the development of Desktop Metal’s mass production system, which builds metal parts in a matter of minutes instead of hours with high precision, single-pass technology. At MIT beginning in the late 1980s, Prof. Sachs became a visionary in rapid prototyping. With colleagues, he developed the concept of 3D printing, ultimately allowing engineers to create functional parts rather than models or patterns for prototyping and testing, as well as for creating finished product components. 3D printing technology has since been applied to a wide variety of systems and application areas including metal end-use parts. His work in this area yielded more than 40 patents and launched a brand new industry. Prof. Sachs became a member of the MIT faculty in 1986. In addition to 3D Printing, Prof Sachs is also known for his invention of conformal cooled molds and contributions to the manufacturing of photovoltaics, particularly for the invention of processes which make silicon wafers directly from molten silicon with no sawing required. He has co-founded several companies in this field including 1366 Technologies Inc, of Bedford, MA. He is also known for his work on process control of microelectronic manufacturing. He has been recognized for pioneering new approaches to teaching undergraduate education, focusing on active, hands-on participation by students in the discovery of knowledge. Sachs’ numerous honors and awards include membership in the National Academy of Engineering, the Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1995; the Institute of Corrosion’s T.P. Hoar Award in 2001; the R&D 100 Award in 2004; and the TMS Champion H. Mathewson Award in 2006. Sachs earned his SB, MS and Ph.D., all in mechanical engineering and all from MIT. He has authored more than 110 technical papers and holds more than 55 patents.
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About Desktop Metal: Desktop Metal is a provider of metal and carbon fiber 3D printing accessible to all engineers, designers, and manufacturers.
Rick Chin
Co-Founder and VP, Software Development of Desktop Metal
Rick Chin is a co-founder and Vice President of Software Development at Desktop Metal, where he is responsible for the development of a robust, effortless software platform for Desktop Metal’s 3D printing systems. Chin is a veteran of CAD software beginning his career at Unigraphics and Parametric Technologies Corporation. He was the 10th employee at Solidworks and was responsible for the eDrawings product which has several million users. Immediately prior to co-founding Desktop Metal in 2015, Chin served as Director of Product Innovation at DS SolidWorks, where he led the team focused on the development and implementation of an Augmented Reality (AR) app for product design. Additionally, he helped launch the SolidWorks SustainabilityXpress product, enabling engineers to improve the environmental impact of their designs. Chin was also the founder of Xpress3D, a pioneering marketplace for 3D printing services acquired by Stratasys which served as the foundation for Redeye Parts/Stratasys Direct. Chin earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He currently holds five U.S. patents for CAD modeling and related features.
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About Desktop Metal: Desktop Metal is a provider of metal and carbon fiber 3D printing accessible to all engineers, designers, and manufacturers.
A. John Hart
Co-Founder of Desktop Metal
John Hart is an associate professor of mechanical engineering and Mitsui Career Development Chair at MIT. Before joining the MIT faculty in July 2013 he was an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, and art/design at the University of Michigan. He has PhD (2006) and SM (2002) degrees from MIT, and a BSE (2000) from Michigan, all in mechanical engineering. At MIT, John leads the Mechanosynthesis Group, which creates new machines, materials, and design principles for advanced manufacturing, including carbon nanomaterials, additive manufacturing processes, and origami-inspired materials design.
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About Desktop Metal, VulcanForms: Desktop Metal is a provider of metal and carbon fiber 3D printing accessible to all engineers, designers, and manufacturers.
Nabyl Charania
CEO & Co-Founder of Rokk3r
Nabyl Charania is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Rokk3r Labs, the world’s first cobuilding platform to launch exponential companies. He shapes the global vision of the company, and oversees Rokk3r Labs’ international portfolio of 30+ companies collectively valued at over $200M. Nabyl leads the direction of Rokk3r Labs’ six worldwide offices, and inspires the company’s cohesiveness towards its higher, aspirational purpose of harnessing the global collective genius to cobuild companies that change the world. At the helm of Rokk3r Labs, having led it through various successes, Nabyl has been invited to speak at various conferences and infront of key executive audiences to share his worldchanging vision and thought leadership. Here is a glimpse of his appearances in from the past few months: December 2015 Sime MIA (Miami) “Disrupting FinTech by Cobuilding” October 2015 Reinvention (Ecuador) “The new age of building companies” October 2015 Celebrate 2015 (Las Vegas) “Evolution of company building & earlytolate stage funding” August 2015 Thrive with Daymond John (Miami) “Cobuilding Ideas to Change the World” Nabyl has also been featured in publications such as TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal and The Next Web. He has contributed thought leadership such as, “Exponential Organizations are the Future of Global Business and Innovation”, and “The Rise of the Exponential Organization”, in leading publications. Focusing on the last 12 months, Nabyl’s leadership of Rokk3r Labs led to some notable milestones. Rokk3r Labs announced the launch and backing of fund managers at two funds: Cross Valley Capital and Iterative Instinct. Additionally, portfolio companies reached significant milestones. Examples include, Internet of Things startup A dMobilize raising their Series A round of funding, social media geofence platform H YP3R’ s acceptance to the Disney Accelerator program (powered by TechStars) , and the launch of season two of C oinspire, a groundbreaking video leadership platform with guests such as Jim McKelvey, Jack Andraka, and Tom Kelley, hosted by VICE contributor and documentary filmmaker Lilia Luciano. Additionally, 2015 saw Nabyl drive the strategic expansion of Rokk3r Labs into EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Asia) with the opening of its first office in London, UK. In 2015, Nabyl also shared the stage with some of today’s most recognized global innovators and entrepreneurs like Twitter Cofounder & CEO Jack Dorsey, U.S. Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship Daymond John, Founding Executive Director of Singularity University, Salim Ismail, and others, to talk about innovating entrepreneurship for the digital age. Previously, Nabyl was Director of Engineering at Convergys, and Director of Technology at Opence Inc. Nabyl is a Kenyan born, Canadianraised, Europeanseasoned, and Americanmatured founder. He holds a Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo. Nabyl is a distinguished member of the Board of Advisors of the Idea Center @ Miami Dade College. He is a sought after advisor, speaker and a visionary with a recognized history of building successful teams and companies. Nabyl is a father of 2, and loves wearing high top sneakers in his quest to connect and change the world.
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About Meta4 Capital, Rokk3r: Rokk3r is a unique platform for entrepreneurs to launch companies through its comprehensive cobuilding approach.
Maxim Lobovsky
Co-Founder and CEO of Formlabs
Maxim Lobovsky launched a successful career as an entrepreneur and startup founder by age 25. As a Program in Media Arts and Sciences master’s student at MIT’s Media Lab, Lobovsky enjoyed access to three-dimensional printers to create necessary components for his projects, designed and printed to spec. Lobovsky could see the potential applications of 3D printing for designers, architects, engineers, and other small businesses;however, the machines he used were prohibitively expensive. After graduating, Lobovsky worked with two of his friends to create the first small-scale, affordable 3D printer for “prosumers,” or professional consumers, and thus was born his startup, Formlabs. Once they had a prototype, called the Form 1, Lobovsky and Formlabs’ co-founders began a Kickstarter campaign, using the power of crowdsourced funding to finance the production of commercial models. Formlabs raised more than $1 million in a week, and nearly $3 million overall—30 times their original fundraising goal. The Form 1 is compatible with CAD software, and uses stereolithography technology to print layers as thin as .001 inches.
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About Formlabs: Formlabs develops accessible 3D fabrication systems designed for printing intricate figures.
Natan Linder
Co-Founder and Chairman of Formlabs
Natan Linder is the Co-Founder of Formlabs, creator of the Form 1 3D Printer. Natan is an R&D Executive with over 10 years of experience has a broad understanding of the Wireless and Mobile industries. He has strong entrepreneurial leadership experience, taking products from concept definition to market launch, and a proven track record building cross-functional R&D teams. Natan has worked with industry leaders leaders such as Sun Microsystems and Samsung Electronics.
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About Formlabs, Tulip Interfaces: Formlabs develops accessible 3D fabrication systems designed for printing intricate figures.
Rich Antoniello
CEO & Founder of Complex
Rich Antoniello joined the company as CEO in 2003 and quickly established Complex magazine into a profitable powerhouse known for delivering a sharp editorial blend of pop culture and style trends. Recognizing that consumers were increasingly migrating online for content, Antoniello oversaw the company’s expansion onto the web with the launch of Complex.com. In 2007, Antoniello formed Complex Media, Inc., a collective of 110 sites that forms a formidable hub for one of the most hard-to-reach demographics – young males – and one primed to make purchasing decisions.
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About Complex: Complex is an online magazine that features articles about music, styles, pop culture, sports, and sneakers.
Ed Fries
Founder & Owner of FigurePrints
Ed Fries is the Board Director of Z2. He was a Vice President of game publishing at Microsoft during much of the Xbox’s lifecycle. He was a prime evangelist of the platform to game developers and had an important role in the acquisition of developers Bungie Studios, Ensemble Studios and Rare. He is currently listed as the Advisor for the Ouya, an Android-based game console and development platform.
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About 1Up Ventures, FigurePrints, Litesprite: At FigurePrints we create statues of video game characters using 3d color printing technology.
Dave Evans
Co-Founder, CEO of Fictiv
Dave Evans co-founded Fictiv and serves as its CEO in pursuit of his mission to democratize manufacturing. Fictiv’s virtual manufacturing platform pairs intelligent workflow and collaboration software with a global network of highly vetted manufacturers. Prior to Fictiv, Dave was the first hire at Ford’s Silicon Valley Lab which is part of Ford’s Global Research and Advanced Engineering Division. While there, Dave was Lead Hardware Engineer on OpenXC, an open source software and hardware platform to extend customer’s vehicles with custom applications and pluggable modules. In this role, he manufactured hardware for 500+ unit production runs including injection molding, PCB fabrication, box design and assembly. He was also responsible for designing, prototyping, and sourcing hardware builds at the Lab. Dave also proudly led the Stanford University Affiliates project for Ford in the mechanical engineering senior design course.
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About Fictiv: Fictiv is a Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem that delivers precision parts on-demand through its digital platform and global partner network.
Maxwell Bogue
Co-Founder of 3Doodler
Max Bogue is Co-Founder of WobbleWorks, Inc., the parent company of 3Doodler. Before founding WobbleWorks Inc., Max was a Director of Consumer Robotics at Handy Robotics and an R&D Manager at WowWee, where he launched products including Rovio, RS Media and ChatterBots. Max bas been described by the Huffington Post as “the happiest man at CES”, by PCMag as “one of the top 10 things at New York Toy Fair 2018” and was credited with bringing “The Craft (And The Joy) Back To Tech”. Max has been invited to keynote and speak at events worldwide, include LeWeb, CE Week and “tech+”, organized by the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy. Max is a graduate of Purdue University’s Computer Science Program, having also attended USC’s Film Production Program.
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About 3Doodler: The 3Doodler is a 3D printing pen that enables users to draw in midair and create 3D versions of their doodles and ideas.
Peter Dilworth
Co-Founder of 3Doodler
By day, Dilworth is the CTO of 3Doodler’s parent company, Wobbleworks LLC, a toy and consumer design house based out of New York, Boston and Hong Kong. The company’s creations include 3Doodler, Flap-itz, a line of fun, easy-to-use headbands with articulated, moving ears, Butch the Dino, which uses a two-legged, bi-pedal walking platform that features four directional walking using only two motors, and the aforementioned Troody, a projected started while at the MIT Leg Lab. Before Wobbleworks, Dilworth designed robot toys for Wowwee and was part of the research staff at MIT’s Media and AI Labs. He graduated from Northeastern University and is currently based in the Boston area.
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About 3Doodler: The 3Doodler is a 3D printing pen that enables users to draw in midair and create 3D versions of their doodles and ideas.
Kevin Czinger
Founder and CEO of Divergent 3D
Kevin Czinger serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Miles Electric Vehicles. He has extensive operating experience and a proven track record of performance in start-up and emerging growth companies. Czinger has served as a senior executive with Goldman Sachs, Bertelsmann AG, the Webvan Group and Global Signal. He has also been active at Benchmark Capital and as a senior Managing Director of Fortress Private Equity Funds.
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About Divergent 3D: Divergent 3D aims to revolutionize the auto industry through 3D printing.
Laurence Zuriff
Founder/CSO of Xometry
Laurence Zuriff is the Founder and CSO at Xometry. He is also a Board Member of the Audit Committee of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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About Xometry: Xometry offers an online marketplace that allows customers to access a network of machine shops and custom manufacturers.
Thatcher Spring
Founder & CEO of GearLaunch
Thatcher Spring is the CEO & Founder of GearLaunch, which offers a sophisticated platform for E2E commerce, a rapidly emerging category that focuses on the full e-commerce value chain. Thatcher’s experience with merchandising and supply chains began when he founded a nationally distributed wholesale apparel company shortly after graduating Georgetown University. Thatcher then went on to receive his MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler and briefly worked at J.P. Morgan and Mars before his entrepreneurial drive led him to founding GearLaunch. Outside of work, Thatcher is an avid sailor, and helped lead the Georgetown University sailing team to a national championship. He also serves as a Director of the Cape Eleuthera Foundation, Class Ambassador for Georgetown University, and an Associate for the Nantucket Conservation Foundation.
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About GearLaunch: GearLaunch offers a sophisticated platform for E2E commerce, a rapidly emerging category that focuses on the full e-commerce value chain.
Vishal Singh
Co-Founder & CTO of LINK3D
Vishal is a computer scientist with nearly 15 years of combined research and software development experience. He has led the development of several products both in enterprise and startup environments focused on security, analytics, and machine learning. He previously co-founded 2 technology startups in New York City focused on networks and big data analytics. He is also an accomplished researcher and has authored several approved US patents and scholarly papers in different top-notch conferences. Vishal’s passion lies in applying the research and growth in software technology to the Additive Manufacturing industry.
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About Dualities Inc., InnCreTech, LINK3D, MyLegalCoverage: Link3D is a SaaS-based solutions to help organizations scale and optimize their additive manufacturing ecosystems.
Shane Fox
Co-Founder and CEO of LINK3D
Shane is a technology evangelist and entrepreneur at the forefront of the Industrial 3D Printing revolution. While working at Within Technologies, a software company that developed and designed software tools for additive manufacturing, Shane’s technology innovation reached over 35 countries. Specializing in topological optimization, he helped create the product known today as Within Medical. In May 2014, Autodesk acquired Within and Shane went on to lead product architecture and business development for the Additive Manufacturing division. Having left Autodesk, Shane co-founded LINK3D. The company’s focus: to automate and optimize the entire additive manufacturing workflow. LINK3D was selected as a ‘FiReStarter Company,’ which previously featured Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX) and Michael Dell (Dell), among others. Shane holds a deep understanding of advanced manufacturing, automation, topological optimization and machine learning. He received his B.S in Management Information Systems from California University.
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About LINK3D: Link3D is a SaaS-based solutions to help organizations scale and optimize their additive manufacturing ecosystems.
Alexander Basalyga
Co-Founder & CTO of Flag
Alexander Basalyga is the Chief Technology Officer of Flag and a freelance web developer for 5 years. He received his Degree of Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy at University of Pittsburgh.
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About Flag: Flag is a printing company that delivers photo prints without charges in shipping, handling, and subscriptions.
James Pickard
Co-Founder of Voltera
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About Voltera: Voltera’s circuit board printer allows designers to go from concept to creation in a matter of minutes. Custom circuits, just press print!
Suz Somersall
CEO & Co-Founder of KiraKira3D
Serial entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of KiraKira, engineering educational company & mobile 3D modelling app. KiraKira is an Intel-Capital backed startup based in Silicon Valley, partnering with companies like HP and Autodesk to democratize access to 3D modelling and 3D printing. Studied art and engineering at Brown University and The Rhode Island School of Design. Featured in Fast Company this year as 100 Most Creative People in Business.
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About KiraKira3D: KiraKira3D is a First 3D Modeling Mobile Application
Phillip Akhzar
Founder of Arka
Phillip Akhzar is the Founder at Arka Inc.
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About Arka: Pain-free way for companies to source packaging/fulfillment online.
Gregory Mark
Founder of Markforged
Gregory Mark is the founder and CEO of Markforged. Prior to founding the company, Greg held an executive position at Genasun in 2011 and also founded Aeromotions in 2008. Greg earned a BS and M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Markforged: Markforged is a manufacturing company that invents a new 3D printing process to build parts with the strength of Continuous Carbon Fiber.
Benny Buller
Founder & CEO of Velo3D
Benny Buller started his career in Israel in the Technology unit of the intelligence forces. While there he learned to appreciate the values of imaginative innovation, precise execution, team work, diversity of opinions and that there is no impossible mission to the ones who dare. For his unique contributions, he was awarded by the president, the prestigious national security award. Benny then joined Applied Materials, where he led the work on semiconductor wafer inspection platform and later on electron beam mask writing system, becoming aware to the new growth opportunities in Solar, he decided to leave Applied Materials and join his first start-up, Solyndra. Joining Solyndra as VP of back end technology and engineering in its earliest stage he defined the company’s product by a series of inventions that became the company’s core IP. He hired an excellent team and led it from early concept through product demonstration, manufacturing process development, equipment design and early scale up. However, as the cost model was firming up, he became convinced, four years before the company’s collapse that the company’s cost structure is fundamentally inferior to First Solar, the cost leader of the industry Impressed by First Solar’s cost advantage and its momentum he joined First Solar as director of device physics and built this team. He pushed it from support of incremental improvements to more radical device research and innovation, resulting in crushing of the CdTe cell and module efficiency world records. . After being promoted to VP Module integration, heading all the technology development for the CdTe PV module, he reorganized the development department and realigned its processes, methods and interactions with the manufacturing organization that resulted in doubling the module efficiency improvement rate. Benny graduated from the Jerusalem University in Physics. He is also an Electrical Engineering (communications) graduate from the Technion in Israel. He has more than 70 published patent applications as well as more than 15 granted patents. Benny is married to his lovely wife Ronit and they have four children. His favorite way of spending his free time is by hiking with his family. He can be reached at bb@khoslaventures.com.
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About Velo3D: Velo3D is a digital manufacturing company using a Sapphire 3D production printer and flow print preparation software to print 3D metals.
Bhargava Adepalley
Co-Founder & CTO of Notion Press
Bhargava Adepalley If code is poetry, Bhargava is our resident poet. With an appetite for code, a thirst for Vanilla tea and an uncanny ability to fall asleep in the middle of a conversation, Bhargava brings a whole lot of development experience into the publishing industry. When he isn’t busy playing Farmville in real life or watching his favorite sci-fi movies, he heads the Notion Press development team.
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About Notion Press: Notion Press eBook, print book and book reviews free self publishing platform – Also, check the Notion Press Reviews at notionpress.com
Joshua Martin
CEO & Co-Founder of Fortify
Josh Martin is a mechanical engineer and materials scientist by training. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware, where he was first exposed to composite materials. Josh worked as a materials scientist at the Army Research Labs before moving to Boston to pursue his Ph.D. at Northeastern University under a National Science Foundation Fellowship. His research spun out into Fortify, where he operates as CEO. Outside of the office, you can find Josh rock climbing and taking motorcycle trips.
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About Fortify: Fortify is an advanced manufacturing startup that aims to disrupt additive manufacturing.
Randall Erb
Co-Founder of Fortify
Randy is a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering and the head of DAPS Lab at Northeastern University.He is an expert in colloidal science, additive manufacturing, and magnetic manipulation. He serves as the resident scientific advisor of Fortify.
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About Boston Materials, Fortify: Fortify is an advanced manufacturing startup that aims to disrupt additive manufacturing.
Khatija Ali
Founder & CEO of BioSapien
CEO, Entrepreneur, MD, Scientist, Inventor.
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About BioSapien: BioSapien is a biotech startup focusing on developing a 3D printed drug delivery platform to provide FDA approved drugs.
Anjan Contractor
CEO & Co-Founder of BeeHex, LLC
Anjan Contractor is the CEO and co-founder of BeeHex, Inc., the premier 3D food printing company. He developed multiple prototypes of 3D printers throughout the late 2000s to print edible food, clothing, and complex shapes. Anjan is widely known for winning a NASA grant for building a 3D printer that successfully printed edible pizza. Contractor also advocates for the maker community and Engineers Without Borders. Anjan is a frequent speaker at technology conferences including Maker Faire in Rome, Italy and the University of Southern California Innovation Conference and is regularly consulted by media for his expertise in 3D printing technology.
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About BeeHex, LLC: We are changing the way food is made by using technology that increases efficiency and improves lives.
Benjamin Feltner
Co-Founder & COO of BeeHex, LLC
Benjamin Feltner is Co-Founder & COO of BeeHex, Inc. Ben is a transactional/corporate attorney and former baseball player. In 2006 and 2007, Ben was drafted by the Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers. Ben’s post-baseball career has been rooted in entrepreneurship and law. Through strategic marketing techniques, his product was featured on more than ten national television shows including The Today Show, The View, Jay Leno, and Jimmy Kimmel. Since then, Ben has served as general counsel to more than 50 small to medium size businesses.
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About BeeHex, LLC, CustoMix: We are changing the way food is made by using technology that increases efficiency and improves lives.
Jesse Genet
Co-Founder and CEO of Lumi
Jesse Genet is the CEO and co-founder of Lumi.com — a modern packaging partner for e-commerce brands.
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About Lumi: Lumi is a packaging supply chain platform for online brands.
Stephan Ango
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer of Lumi
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About Lumi, Slash Packaging: Lumi is a packaging supply chain platform for online brands.
Zachary Oligschlaeger
Co-Founder of Toybox Labs
Co-founder and software engineer for Toybox
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About Toybox Labs: Unlocking the power of 3d printing for everyday people
Bob Young
Founder of Lulu Press
Bob Young is the founder and CEO of Lulu.com, a premiere international marketplace for new digital content on the Internet, with more than 300,000 recently published titles and more than 15,000 new creators from 80 different countries joining each week. Lulu.com, founded in 2002, is Young’s most recent endeavour. The success of this company has earned Young notable recognition; he was named one of the “Top 50 Agenda-Setters in the Technology Industry in 2006” and was ranked as the fourth “Top Entrepreneur for 2006,” both by Silicon.com. In 1993, Young co-founded Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the open-source software company that gives hardware and software vendors a standard platform on which to certify their technology. Red Hat is a Fortune 500 company and chief rival to Microsoft. His success at Red Hat won him industry accolades, including nomination as one of Business Week’s “Top Entrepreneurs” in 1999. Before founding Red Hat, Young spent 20 years at the helm of two computer-leasing companies that he founded. His experiences as a high tech entrepreneur combined with his innate marketing savvy led to Red Hat’s success. His book, “Under the Radar”, chronicles how Red Hat’s open source strategy successfully won wide industry acceptance in a market previously dominated by proprietary binary-only systems. Young has also imparted the lessons learned from his entrepreneurial experiences through his contributions to the books to “You’ve GOT to Read This Book!” and “Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur’s Soul.” In 2000, Young co-founded the Center for Public Domain, a non-profit foundation created to bolster healthy conversation of intellectual property, patent and copyright law, and the management of the public domain for the common good. Grant recipients included the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Creative Commons, the Free Software Foundation, and the Future of Music Coalition. Young graduated from the University of Toronto in 1976 prior to beginning his career in the computer finance arena. In 2003, Young purchased the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League and currently serves as the league’s vice chairman. In addition to enjoying fly fishing, Young collects calculators and antique typewriters, a nod to his beginnings as a typewriter salesman and can usually be found sporting a pair of red socks. However, instead of red on his head, Young now tips his orange hat.
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About Elizabeth Bradley Designs, Lulu Press: Lulu Press operates is a web-based publishing company that allows customers to publish, print and sell books globally.
Chris Prucha
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Origin
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About Origin: Origin is an additive manufacturing platform designed for mass production
Joel Ong
Founder & CTO of Origin
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About Origin: Origin is an additive manufacturing platform designed for mass production
Alexa Hirschfeld
Co-Founder of Paperless Post
Alexa Hirschfeld is Co-Founder at Paperless Post.
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About Paperless Post: Paperless Post is an online events platform that exists to help people gather more easily and meaningfully in real life.
James Hirschfeld
Co-Founder of Paperless Post
James Hirschfeld is Co-Founder at Paperless Post.
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About Paperless Post: Paperless Post is an online events platform that exists to help people gather more easily and meaningfully in real life.
Heidi Hertel
Founder and Co-CEO of Fitz Frames
Heidi Hertel is the founder of Fitz Frames. Heidi was a former director of public affairs and philanthropic strategy at Griffin Schake Consulting, a political consultant at Capital Strategies, and a government affairs manager at Clear Channel Communications and Hertel & Associates.
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About Fitz Frames: Solving glasses for kids and parents, because those who can see the world are the ones who will change it.
Eythor Bender
Co-Founder and CEO of UNYQ
Eythor Bender, the CEO/Co-founder of UNYQ has worked in the prosthetics and bionics industry for 20+ years including leadership roles at two successful startup exits including CEO at Ekso Bionics (IPO) and President at Ossur (IPO), the manufacturer of the prosthetic legs used by ‘blade runner’ Oscar Pistorius in the Olympics.
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About Singularity University, UNYQ: UNYQ is a global medical device company with industry-leading innovative mass customized orthopedic products
Braydon Moreno
Co-Founder/President of Robo 3D
Braydon Moreno CEO – Braydon has a BS in Management specializing in Entrepreneurship from San Diego State University. Braydon has extensive experience working in internet marketing, with specialties including SEO, social media marketing, and advertising campaigns. He is extremely detail-oriented and design savvy, as well as a bona fide technology visionary. He has also worked for several startups in mass manufacturing products overseas and has owned several successful companies giving him an ideal foundation to drive ROBO 3D into unparalleled heights.
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About Boxlight, Robo 3D: Robo 3D manufactures and markets 3D printers for retail.
Tina Cheng
Founder & CEO of Capsul Jewelry
Tina Cheng is the Founder & CEO at Capsul.
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About Capsul Jewelry: Capsul Jewelry is a D2C brand focused on premium customized jewelry in the accessible luxury segment.
Jason Enos
Founder & CEO of Empire Group
Jason has always had a passion for building things. He began his career in the early 90s as pattern maker for Hasbro. In 1999, Jason founded Empire Prototype (known today as the Empire Group). From its inception, Jason and the company embraced technology, 3D printing in particular. The company quickly grew into a 16,000 sq. ft. facility. Breaking away from the traditional model/pattern maker role required Empire to create a new process for creating prototypes faster and at a higher level of quality than its overseas counterparts. This process has since become the industry standard.
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About Empire Group: Empire Group is a full-service product development provider – from design and engineering, to prototype, to low-mid volume production.
Anna Cheniuntai
Founder and CEO of Apis Cor
Anna Cheniuntai is the CEO and Founder of Apis Cor.
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About Apis Cor: Apis Cor develops mobile construction 3D printerы that work in polar coordinates.
Raymond Lei
Founder, CEO of ooShirts
Raymond Lei is Founder at Scalable & Lumina.
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About ooShirts, Scalable, Scalable Press: ooShirts is an online platform that allows groups and individuals to create their own custom apparel.
Frank Gaspari
Founder and CEO of FlexPrint
Frank Gaspari is Founder & CEO of FlexPrint LLC. Mr. Gaspari is a 30+ year document technology veteran who is widely recognized as a visionary leader and successful serial entrepreneur. Gaspari founded FlexPrint in 2005 with the objective of creating a national service-led business model utilizing information management to create a “Flexible” approach. Under Gaspari’s leadership, FlexPrint has grown into the Nation’s largest privately held managed print provider, earning numerous accolades such as 7 consecutive Inc.500|5000 awards (only 228 privately owned enterprises in America has earned such a distinction for 7 consecutive years), nine “Best Places to Work” awards, and many other industry leadership awards that recognize FlexPrint’s proven business model and unique corporate culture. Today, FlexPrint LLC supports national clients in every state, with direct offices in Chicago, Indianapolis, Tempe, and Tucson and headquartered in Mesa, Arizona. Prior to launching FlexPrint, Gaspari co-founded Column Office Equipment in 1990 in addition to a Chicago-based managed print services company, Image Manufacturing in early 2000. Gaspari led both companies to exponential growth and expansion. Both companies were acquired by Xerox’s Global Imaging Systems in 1999 and 2004 respectively. Mr. Gaspari currently resides in Paradise Valley, Arizona with his wife Anne and their two daughters. He is a board member for Camp Kesem and Empact Suicide Prevention. Frank is the seventh of eight children of Richard & Isabelle Gaspari, and a lifelong Chicago Sports Fan.
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About FlexPrint: FlexPrint was founded in 2005, and has become the nation’s leading privately-owned enterprise for Managed Print and Technology Services.
Melanie Matheu
CO-Founder & CEO of Prellis Biologics
Matheu co-founded Prellis Biologics in October 2016, with the mission to create fully vascularized human tissues and organs for transplantation. Her realization that the tiny blood vessels necessary for creating human organs could be replicated using the laser technology at the center of her PhD thesis work, led to development of the blended engineering and biology approach Prellis is using to solve the human organ shortage. Dr. Matheu is an expert in laser-based imaging of the immune system and developed Prellis’ platform technology. She brings her multi-disciplinary experience in specialized laser microscopy, cell biology, physiology, and biophysics to address the unsolved biomedical challenge of rapid 3D printing of large, vascularized tissues.
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About Prellis Biologics: Prellis employs holographic tissue printing technology with rapid fully human antibody discovery, in vitro human disease and ADME/Tox models
William Chang
CEO/Co-Founder of NEA 3D
Serial entrepreneur & company visionary William Chang is the CEO of NEA 3D. For the last 18 years William has creatively directed award winning show packaging and branding for ESPN, ABC, HBO, NFL, MLB, various Superbowl’s and the Olympics. He founded and catapulted Playfight VFX Inc. into a leading visual effects house within 2 years, worked on projects such as: Freddie Wong’s RocketJump, award winning web series Video Game High School, Activision’s Call of Duty short film, Operation Kingfish and Free the Frontier for Respawn Entertainment where he produced and directed a series of commercial trailers for their critically acclaimed video game, Titanfall. Excited by the recent surge in 3D Printing, William jumped at the opportunity of being able to take what he did in the digital 3D universe of visual effects and apply them in real life often using 3D printing to help conceptualize props for film and television.
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About NEA 3D: Built powerful, modular, compact & finely tuned.
Faouzi Zerrouk
Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Zecotek Photonics
Dr. Zerrouk is Chairman, President and CEO of Zecotek Photonics Inc. In 1989, he established the first foreign partnered, private, business oriented photonics research Lab in the Ex-Soviet Union (Novosibirsk, Siberia). He duplicated the same model in three prestigious research institutes in Moscow. Dr. Zerrouk acted as a technology transfer advisor, working closely with the Ministry of Science and Technology during the transition period to the Russian federation. He worked on Research and Development strategies for the new economy with prominent members of the Russian Academy of Science and coordinated many government projects in joint relations between Russia and countries like China, Germany, USA, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia. Dr. Zerrouk was Chairman and CEO of various companies in Europe and Asia. Dr. Zerrouk is a Canadian citizen. He received his PhD in Theoretical Physics, in 1987 from the University of Sussex, England. Through 1987–1993, he held research and faculty positions at various centers. Amongst them, the Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, England, (Atomic & Laser physics); Siberian Academy of Sciences (TOKAMAK and Laser fusion research); the Institute of Thermal Processes, Moscow (high-power gas dynamic lasers). At the Institute of General Physics, Moscow, Dr. Zerrouk worked with the group of the Nobel Laureate Academician Prokhorov where he co-developed RGB and UV micro-chipset lasers with large market applications. He also established commercially driven private R&D labs based in Russia, in the fields of crystals & lasers, holographic, 3D displays, new materials, nanostructures, optical networks and communication subsystems. Dr. Zerrouk is the principal founder of Zecotek Holdings technologies. He served as the Executive Chairman, President and CEO since inception.
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About Zecotek Photonics: Zecotek Photonics is a photonics company developing high-performance crystals, photo detectors, and 3D display and printing technologies.
Andre Wegner
Founder & CEO of Authentise
Andre Wegner is founder and CEO of Authentise. Andre is a frequent speaker on emerging intellectual property issues in 3D Printing and opportunities of distributed manufacturing at events such as Singularity University, Rapid, Designer of Things, Inside 3D Printing, 3D Print Show, Pacific Crest & WIRED. He has been quoted in publications such as BBC News, MIT Tech Review, Chicago Tribune, and Bloomberg. He is an expert in greenfield value chain creation, leading the development of a $300m low income gas distribution business for West Africa’s leading Oil and Gas company. Prior to founding Authentise Andre also managed a venture capital fund in Nigeria and advisory services in India. Andre is a graduate of St. Andrews University (M.A. – UK), ESSEC (M.Sc. – France) and Singularity University (California).
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About Authentise, Singularity University: Process Automation Software for Additive Manufacturing
Mike Moceri
Founder & CEO of MakerOS
The 2015 “Face of 3D Printing” by D-Business magazine. Mike studied entrepreneurship and interactive media at DePaul University from 2010-2013. He entered the 3D printing industry during his sophomore year in 2011 when he built his first machine and interned with MakerBot. Mike became an influential member of the DIY 3D printing community online and in Chicago with many of his projects such as establishing a standardized process from 3D scanning to printing and being featured in world renowned exhibitions including the Inside 3D Printing Conference in Chicago and New York. He later co-founded the world’s first 3D printing retail and service bureau hybrid in April 2013 in downtown Chicago (3DPX). In early 2014, he moved back to Detroit to start Manulith and MakerOS. Within one year, he grew Manulith into being the premier 3D printing service provider in Detroit with MakerOS as its backbone. Mike’s mission is now to implement MakerOS to become the standard system in which advanced manufacturers operate so that they may benefit the same as Manulith has. Mike has been featured in national and international publications such as MSN, Make Magazine, Central Chinese Television Network, CBS, and the Encyclopedia Britannica. Recently, Mike was named the 2015 “Face of 3D Printing” by D-Business magazine.
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About MakerOS, Manulith: MakerOS is an all-in-one collaboration platform for 3D printing businesses to improve workflows with their clients and get projects done.
Tyler Benster
Co-Founder & General Partner of Asimov Ventures
Tyler Benster joined Asimov Ventures as Co-Founder and General Partner in 2015.
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About Asimov Ventures: Asimov Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm who invests in their areas of expertise: 3D Printing and Robotics.
Greg Kowalczyk
President & Founder of Additive Orthopaedics
Greg Kowalczyk has been involved in orthopaedic product development, marketing, business development and sales for over 20 years for companies such as Aircast, Stryker, Integra, the Prodigy Group, and MTF. Most recently, he functioned as the Vice President of Marketing and Interim CEO for Nextremity Solutions. He also founded co-founded Proception Medical, an orthopaedic medical device incubatory company. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University and a MS in Biomedical Engineering from NJIT.
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About Additive Orthopaedics: Additive Orthopaedics offers innovative orthopaedic implants leveraging the power of 3D printing technology.
Collin Mitchell
CEO & Founder of Monster Technology
Collin Mitchell’s passion for the industry began in 2010. Collin Enjoys spending time with his new son, wife, and two dogs, as well as being active outdoors.
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About Monster Technology: Monster Technology is a value added re-seller of printer consumables, office, and technology products.
Graham Bredemeyer
Founder of Collider
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About Collider, ZVerse, Inc.: Collider makes a machine that makes parts in off-the-shelf manufacturing materials using 3D printed tooling and an injection process.
Patrick Deem
Co-Founder & CFO, Head of Business Development of Voodoo Manufacturing
Patrick Deem is the Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund.
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About Pioneer Fund, Voodoo Manufacturing: Voodoo Manufacturing is giving everyone on Earth the power to manufacture.
Jay Wilkinson
Founder & CEO of Firespring
Jay Wilkinson is a Founder & CEO at Firespring.
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About Do More Good Movement, Entrepreneurs’ Organization, Firespring: Firespring provides strategic guidance activated through creative solutions in marketing and tech to help businesses and nonprofits prosper.
Grace Choi
Founder & CEO of Mink
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About Mink: Mink is a company that manufactures 3D printers capable of printing beauty makeup.
Jordan Schindler
Founder & CEO of Nufabrx
I founded texdel (formerly Nufabrx) in 2011 after a trip to the dermatologist where I learned that pillowcases are one of the leading causes of acne/blemishes, and we are supposed to wash our pillowcases every 2 to 3 days. For teens and college students, this is not going to happen! So off I went to find a solution. After years of R&D, fine tuning and teaming up with a brilliant PhD formulation scientist from Minneapolis, we developed four patent-pending “platform” technologies that enable the secure and controlled delivery of “Active” ingredients via yarn to the skin over an extended period of time, and through hundreds of laundering cycles. Textile yarns can now be enhanced to provide the wearer performance improving, healing, and aesthetic capabilities. Textile-Based Delivery is proud to partner with one of the most innovative and proven yarn manufacturers in America. Together we have developed the processes to rapidly and reliably produce Active-enabled yarn for use by your preferred manufacturers.
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About EO Charlotte, Nufabrx, Textile-Based Delivery: Nufabrx manufactures pillowcases designed to actively fight blemishes while its users are asleep.
Miriam Brafman
Founder & CEO of Packlane
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About Packlane: Packlane makes it easy and affordable for small businesses to design and order custom boxes and packaging online.
Chip Royce
CEO & Co-Founder of Fusion3
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About Flywheel Advisors, Inc., Fusion3, Techstars: Manufacturer of affordable, high performance 3D printers for commercial and education use.
Katelyn Padgett
Founder & CEO of Fusion3
Founder & CTO of Fusion3.
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About Fusion3: Manufacturer of affordable, high performance 3D printers for commercial and education use.
Alexander Wong
CEO & Founder of Alexander Wong, Inc.
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About Alexander Wong, Inc.: The premier designer and manufacturer of high-end, luxury wearables and electronics.
Doug Farber
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Orange Maker
Doug Farber is a technology entrepreneur, and currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Orange Maker, a 3D printing technology company developing a unique method for forming 3D objects, Heliolithography.
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About Orange Maker: Orange Maker is a 3D printing technology company that develops solutions for advanced 3D printing systems and creates software programs.
Soumya Rahima Benhabbour
Founder & Director of AnelleO
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About AnelleO, UNC Esheleman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: The first 3D printed intravaginal ring to treat a women’s health condition.
Steve Grundahl
Founder / President of Midwest Prototyping
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About Additive Manufacturing Technologies, Midwest Prototyping: Midwest Prototyping is an additive manufacturing industry leader, specializing in rapid prototyping & low-volume production.
Samantha Snabes
Co-Founder & Catalyst of re:3D
Samantha Snabes is a Catalyst for re:3D facilitating connections between others printing human-scaleand/or using recycled materials to create more access to 3D printable solutions worldwide. As re:3D Co-Founder, she currently serves on the IEEE Entrepreneurship Steering Committee. Previously, she servedas the Social Entrepreneur in Residence for the NASA HQ and Deputy Strategist supporting NASAJohnson Space Center’s Space Life Sciences Directorate after selling a start-up for a DARPA-funded, co-patented tissue culture device. Samantha holds a BS in Biology, BA degrees in International Relations and Hispanic Studies, a MBA with concentrations in Supply Chain Management & International Relations,and certifications as a firefighter & EMT-B.To her knowledge, Samantha is the CEO of one of the few 3D printing companies with a social focus. Currently she is actively working to capture the efforts of like-minded peers in the 3D printingcommunity who are serving others. Samantha has spent the last year traveling to personally connectwith thought leaders in the field and interviewing 3D printing users making a difference, which she islooking forward to sharing during her presentation. She also has begun donating one large 3D printer forevery 100 her company delivers to groups seeking to make a difference through 3D printing. Additionally, her company is actively pursuing opportunities to 3D print from plastic trash.
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About re:3D: re:3D engages in developing 3D printing technologies, marketplaces, and communities.
Elisa Teipel, Ph.D.
Chief Development Officer (CDO) & Co-Founder of Essentium
Elisa Teipel is head of innovation and a co-founder of Essentium, Inc. Elisa focuses on the concept of turning waste into new material resources. Examples of successfully transformed waste streams include non-edible coconut by-products, recycled tire rubber and consumer plastics such as water bottle and bag regrind. Elisa serves as a PI for Essentium with SBIR proposals, and was the PI for Essentium’s successfully completed NSF Phase IIB project (Award #1026842). She has helped successfully launch three products from a previous SBIR award (Load Floor, Moisture Mat, and Structural Guard). Elisa’s background not only includes material development and generating patent applications for new technologies using waste streams, but her passion for sustainable community development has allowed her to work for the Earth Institute at Columbia University as well as overseas with the offices of three former First Ladies (Laura Bush, Wendy Bergner, Pilar Nores Garcia). Her vision is to build the next generation of essential materials that are used in everyday applications, and are better for the environment, more cost effective and provide jobs in communities around the world. Elisa has a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received her Master’s degree with an emphasis in materials and polymeric composites from Baylor University and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University.
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About Essentium: Essentium is an innovator in both engineering filament materials and industrial additive manufacturing platforms.
Blake Teipel, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Office ,Co-Founder & President of Essentium
Blake is CEO and co-founder of Essentium, Inc., an extrusion-additive manufacturing company changing the way things are made in the materials, machine and process spaces. Essentium was awarded the SME Innovation Grand Prize in 2016 for novel electromagnetic welding technology which makes extrusion-printed parts stronger and more uniform in Z. Blake is also co-Founder of TriFusion Devices, an extrusion additive biomedical device company. TriFusion has printed and shipped over 800 bespoke medical devices all over North America and was awarded the TCT-Rapid Healthcare Application Award for 2017. Blake holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Texas A&M University, with a research focus in polymeric nanocomposites. He holds awarded and pending patents and has authored multiple peer-reviewed journal articles.
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About Essentium: Essentium is an innovator in both engineering filament materials and industrial additive manufacturing platforms.
Michael Snyder
Co-Founder, Chief Engineer of Made In Space
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About Made In Space: Made In Space is the space-based manufacturing company that develops the 3D printers on board the International Space Station.
Jackie Subeck
Chief Executive Officer; Founder of Footprint Worldwide
Jackie Subeck, a dynamic and strategically-minded entrepreneur, is Chief Executive Officer and founder of Hey Jackpot, LLC and Vice Chair of Women Grow Los Angeles. She devotes her time to advocating and promoting forward progress for medical and recreational cannabis, both in California and globally. Prior to 2015, Jackie spent her time as founder and CEO of Footprint Worldwide, a China-centric entertainment marketing, branding, and production company based in Los Angeles and Beijing. With achievements spanning across the globe including 30 years in the music industry and 13 years in China, she most recently served as Music and Post Production consultant to DreamWorks Animation in Shanghai. Throughout her career, she has produced hundreds of projects and combined forces with high profile talent including Madonna, Linkin Park, Quincy Jones, and eight time Grammy winners, The Manhattan Transfer. In early 2015, Jackie made a pivotal life decision that her experience, passion and years of startups and business knowledge would be far better served in the nascent cannabis industry. Coming into the marijuana field as an outsider provided Jackie the unique opportunity to enjoy fresh and untainted perspectives, to think differently, and to design, develop and execute new models to service the entire global cannabis space. The launch of Hey Jackpot! is her first startup in the cannabis business. Jackie sits on the Advisory Board of the UNICEF Chinese Children’s Initiative, is educated at University of California Santa Barbara and regularly volunteers her time to music, cannabis policy, political campaigns and philanthropic organizations.
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About Footprint Worldwide: Footprint Worldwide is a comprehensive China-centric consulting and branded entertainment company.
Henry Burner
Founder of Buttonsmith Inc.
Henry is an entrepreneur who founded Buttonsmith Inc. when he was 10 years old as part of a school project. He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 class of 2018 in the e-commerce category for his work at Buttonsmith.
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About Buttonsmith Inc.: Buttonsmith is revitalizing American manufacturing for the 21st century. Our proprietary software-driven manufacturing process allows manufacturers to make exactly what consumers want on-demand.
Jerry Ropelato
CEO and Founder of WhiteClouds
Jerry founded WhiteClouds in 2013 and serves as Chief Executive Officer bringing over 30 years of Internet Media, Technology Product Development, and Manufacturing experience.
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About TopTenREVIEWS, WhiteClouds: 3DCloud – Software for 3D Printing in mass markets
Sabine Resoagli
Co-Founder & COO of Accelerate3D
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About Accelerate3D: Accelerate3D manufacture 3D printers for plastic products or components 10x faster than the market standard.
Riley Knox
Co-Founder & CEO of Accelerate3D
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About Accelerate3D: Accelerate3D manufacture 3D printers for plastic products or components 10x faster than the market standard.
Joshua White
Founder & CDO of AstroPrint
Front end developer, designer, and SEO-guy extraordinaire! Josh has dedicated much of his life to various art forms. His love of guitar led him to study Music Industry in college, but he was continuously called back to his love of visual art and graphic design. In addition, his passion for 3D printing is incredibly contagious, so watch out if you run into him at an event, you might be buying a printer later that day… LOL When he is not playing on the 3D printer or creating amazing designs for AstroPrint, he is typically hanging at the zoo (which is where he got married) or traveling around the world with his amazing wife.
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About 3DaGoGo, AstroPrint: AstroPrint operates as a cloud platform for Additive Manufacturing.
Drew Taylor
Co-Founder, CEO of AstroPrint
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About 3DaGoGo, AstroPrint: AstroPrint operates as a cloud platform for Additive Manufacturing.
Brian Park
Co-Founder and CEO of Trove
Brian Park is a co-founder and the chief executive officer of [Trove](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/trove-4#/entity). Prior to that, he was a product manager at [Zynga](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zynga#/entity). Park holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the [University of Pennsylvania](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-pennsylvania#/entity). He lives in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Trove: Trove allows users to customize, try on, and buy 3D-printed jewelry.
Andrew Hong
Co-Founder and Head of Design of Trove
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About Trove: Trove allows users to customize, try on, and buy 3D-printed jewelry.
Steve Miller
Co-Founder of Arternal
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About Arternal: Arternal streamlines the sales process for art galleries by making the sales offer trackable.
Lucas Buick
CEO & Founder of Hipstamatic
Lucas Allen Buick is the Managing Partner at Someday Capital.
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About Hipstamatic, Someday Capital, Spinlist, VNYL: Hipstamatic, pioneers of the vintage mobile photo, creators of mobile products for creative people
Ryan Dorshorst
CTO & Co Founder of Hipstamatic
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About Hipstamatic: Hipstamatic, pioneers of the vintage mobile photo, creators of mobile products for creative people
Jim Williams
Founder & CEO of MustHaveMenus
Jim Williams founded MustHaveMenus, Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
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About MustHaveMenus: MustHaveMenus lets restaurants design and print everything they need for effective branding and marketing.
Camilla Oxley
Co-Founder & Scientific Advisor of LabMinds
Co-Founder & Scientific Advisor at LabMinds
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About Janssen, LabMinds: Solution Preparation via Automation – The Revo ® solution preparation system utilizes robotics, artificial intelligence and machine learning
James R. Groves
Co-Founder of Mantle
James R. (Randy) Groves is Co-Founder at NanoCore Technologies, Inc.
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About Mantle: Mantle is metal 3D printing company that has developed technology for precision metal components such as tooling.
Ted Sorom
Co-Founder and CEO of Mantle
Ted Sorom is CEO & Co-founder at NanoCore.
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About Mantle: Mantle is metal 3D printing company that has developed technology for precision metal components such as tooling.
Stephen Connor
Co-Founder of Mantle
Stephen Connor is Cofounder at NanoCore Technologies, Inc.
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About Mantle: Mantle is metal 3D printing company that has developed technology for precision metal components such as tooling.
John Ewell
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & President of Prism Engineering
John Ewell is a Co-Founder of Prism Engineering, Inc. As CEO & President, John is responsible for overseeing daily company operations. In addition, he chairs Prism’s leadership team working directly with the managers of sales, financial, technical services and marketing. John is proud to have guided Prism from a small startup in 1991 to a team of over 50 employees today including 6 regional offices throughout the Mid-Atlantic States. John holds a Bachelors Degree in Political Science from Temple University as well as a Master of Science Degree in Human Resource Development from Villanova University.
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About Prism Engineering: Prism Engineering is a value-added reseller of computer aided design (CAD) software.
Daniel Stanton
President & Co-Founder of SecureMarking
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About Bradley University, IBM, LinkedIn, SecureMarking, Techstars, Udemy, Wiley: SecureMarking is an unclonable nanotechnology solution for tracking authentic parts in a supply chain.
