Techstars

Techstars Central LLC, founded in 2006 and based in Boulder, Colorado, operates as a startup accelerator and venture capital firm focused on supporting early-stage technology-oriented companies. It specializes in a mentorship-driven accelerator program, selecting ten startups each summer to participate in a three-month incubation period, offering funding of $120,000 in exchange for equity. Techstars invests primarily in sectors such as fintech, artificial intelligence, blockchain, augmented reality, and IoT, while avoiding investments in medical devices, healthcare technology, and local service-oriented businesses. In addition to its primary accelerator, Techstars has various specialized programs, including those focused on music, retail, mobility, and social impact, with global reach extending to regions such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The firm prefers taking minority stakes, typically between six and ten percent, without seeking board representation or investor rights. Techstars has built a robust network of entrepreneurs, mentors, and corporate partners to foster innovation and growth within its portfolio, which includes over 1,000 companies with a significant collective market capitalization.

Ethan Austin

MD of the Techstars Western Union Accelerator

Mark Tortorella

Advisor

Nathanial Zola

MD

Past deals in 3D Printing

ExLattice

Pre Seed Round in 2023
ExLattice is 3D printing Company.

Asvin Tech

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Asvin Tech develops AI-powered, cost-effective, and scalable intraoral dental 3D scanners for dentists. Asvin Tech makes digital dentistry accessible to dentists working in developing countries and to those who cannot afford costly dental equipment.

HILOS

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Putting each of us at the center of what we wear by pioneering on-demand custom manufacturing in footwear and apparel.

MODICA Microindustries

Funding Round in 2021
MODICA builds intelligent micro-factories and workspaces inside shipping containers that are deployed, arranged, and stacked to create macro-factories and clusters of activity wherever they need to be, anywhere on - or off - Earth. Our proprietary Micromanufacturing Array technologies normalize the physical form factors and data formats involved in digital manufacturing, linking machine tools like 3D printers and small-format CNC mills together with intelligent robotics and self-healing job queuing and coordination platforms. We collapse the entire requisition and construction of manufacturing capacity down to a single line-item, allowing anyone to make anything, anywhere.

F3nice

Pre Seed Round in 2021
F3nice is an Italian innovative start-up specializing in additive manufacturing, with a strong emphasis on sustainability and circular economy principles. The company focuses on the development and design of both single and complex components, leveraging its expertise in material science and process engineering. F3nice manufactures metal powder for additive manufacturing feedstock, utilizing recycled metal scrap, including high-alloyed steels and nickel- and titanium-based alloys. This approach not only helps 3D printing clients reduce their carbon footprint but also simplifies their assembly processes, contributing to overall business sustainability.

Bild

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Bild is an on-demand manufacturing platform that provides companies access to quick-turn prototyping manufacturers. Through the platform, users will also have access to the tools needed to efficiently engage and manage designs with manufacturing partners, enabling them to prototype faster and get to validation earlier.

ASSEMBLR

Seed Round in 2021
Assemblr helps users to visualize information better in Augmented Reality. We believe that the way people accessing information in the future will be through Augmented Reality. We want to empower people to allow them to make or access Augmented Reality contents in an easy way, accessible to all people and in one platform. In Assemblr user can create AR project using Assemblr ecosystem (Mobile app & Desktop app) or upload custom 3D model from existing 3D software. User can access & share AR content anytime, anywhere seamlessly. (Soon) User will be able make money by joining Assemblr Certified Creator to create AR project for others or sell 3D assets in Assemblr Marketplace to be use in AR project.

ManiMe

Series A in 2020
Mani.Me, Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells ready-to-wear manicures. It offers stick on gels made with 3D printing technology. The company sells its products online. Mani. Me, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Designhubz

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Designhubz Inc is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in software as a service (SaaS) solutions for e-commerce retailers, focusing on web augmented reality (AR) and three-dimensional (3D) product visualization. The company provides low-cost, automated robotic rigs that capture and digitize physical inventory with a simple click. Through its SaaS platform, Designhubz seamlessly integrates with these rigs, allowing retailers to display their products in 3D and browser-based AR on their websites and mobile applications. This technology enhances the online shopping experience by creating immersive, interactive online stores and is also applicable for in-store shopping environments.

Triditive

Seed Round in 2020
Triditive specializes in an innovative 3D printing platform that leverages machine learning to facilitate automated mass production. Their flagship technology, AMCELL®, allows for fully automated and scalable manufacturing processes, enabling on-demand production with high capacity while minimizing defects in real-time through advanced robotics. The platform is designed to transition from prototyping to the mass production of fully functional finished products. It operates as a fully automated system, controlled by software that enables users to manage, execute, and monitor work orders remotely from any device. This capability allows organizations to efficiently handle urgent requests and reduce machine downtime, thereby optimizing the overall production process.

Fieldmade

Seed Round in 2019
Fieldmade develops, produces, and sells world leading and fully integrated Additive Manufacturing (AM) solutions for deployed military use. The company creates innovative solutions to complex problems based on cutting edge AM technology and software solutions. Fieldmade works closely with industry-leading partners to deliver optimal and functional products that meet customer needs.

Accelerate3D

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Accelerate3D Inc. manufactures 3D printers for plastic products and components. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Womp

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Womp is an all-in-one platform that leverages artificial intelligence to facilitate the creation of CAD and 3D models, catering specifically to the needs of 3D printing and new media applications such as web 3D, augmented reality, and virtual reality. The company specializes in 3D scanning, modeling, and printing services, enabling users to create physical objects from digital designs. Womp's technology captures the dimensions of an object, transforming it into a 3D mesh file, which can be printed in a variety of sizes and materials. This comprehensive approach allows customers to easily build intuitive and functional physical representations from their digital models.

AstroPrint

Seed Round in 2019
Customers include: Purdue, Litens Automotive, Baylor, & many more. Stats: 3.5M 3D prints managed (remotely). 8M hours of cloud 3D Printing. AstroPrint produces a suite of cloud based software products for the Additive Manufacturing (AM) industry. Our hottest piece of software is our Enterprise Fleet Management solution for multi-user 3D Printer environments. In a nutshell, this allows large organizations to run large scale 3D printer farms, regardless of the various 3D Printer brands/models they may have. They can even set 50+ permissions in order to limit the functionality for various user groups. Components include: Online Build Plate, online toolpath viewers, multiple slicing engines with intelligent slice-job routing, remote monitoring/management of the fleet, queueing & Group Queueing, print history, advanced analytics, SSO integrations, advanced cloud file management/sharing, 3DP APIs, 3rd party content integrations (print-from-web), CAD tool integrations (print-from-CAD), mobile apps (print-from-mobile), and much more.

prinsta

Seed Round in 2019
Prinsta is a privately held startup located in Atlanta, GA. They've developed proprietary automated circuit board printers Prinsta is a startup focused on changing how they prototype electronics.Prinsta is developing the next generation of electronic manufacturing. Today they are launching their factory-in-a-box desktop circuit board printer.Prinsta's vision is to be THE focal point for ALL electronics manufacturing (eg fabrication and assembly), from prototyping on your desk at home or work.

ModelMe3D

Pre Seed Round in 2019
ModelMe3D BV is a company based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, that specializes in a 3D interactive modeling platform. This platform enables users to visualize buildings, infrastructure, and natural environments in detailed three-dimensional representations. By allowing users to interactively click on various elements such as buildings and surfaces, the platform enhances understanding of surroundings and facilitates informed decision-making. ModelMe3D aims to support urban planning through collective intelligence and creativity, ultimately aiding in investment and development initiatives.

ModelMe3D

Pre Seed Round in 2019
ModelMe3D BV is a company based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, that specializes in a 3D interactive modeling platform. This platform enables users to visualize buildings, infrastructure, and natural environments in detailed three-dimensional representations. By allowing users to interactively click on various elements such as buildings and surfaces, the platform enhances understanding of surroundings and facilitates informed decision-making. ModelMe3D aims to support urban planning through collective intelligence and creativity, ultimately aiding in investment and development initiatives.

MacroFab

Series A in 2019
MacroFab is a marketplace for electronics manufacturing from prototype to high scale production. Their platform is re-shaping the $480B contract manufacturing market by transforming the experience from a manual, time-intensive, and error-prone process performed by large teams of people, into a real-time, streamlined, and connected software-driven experience while providing access to unlimited factory capacity in North America. The platform also uploads a PCB board design, gets an instant quote and the board is printed in the company's factory, enabling startups, manufacturers, and enterprises to design, customize and automate the PCB manufacturing process and save time, effort and money. Macrofab was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States.

Inklocker

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Inklocker is changing the printing game by seamlessly connecting print shops to e-commerce platforms. Inklocker is a leading global cloud-based printer platform designed apparel designers who want to utilize small and medium-sized print shops to produce orders closest to the customer. Print shops can use the software to streamline production, outsource jobs, and integrate across multiple sales channels, including leading shopping carts like Shopify and woocommerce.The Inklocker platform was engineered for network capabilities with a uniformed production software across the custom product manufacturing industry.

Umeleon

Seed Round in 2019
The Umeleon 1 Pro, an in-house developed extrusion machine, produces custom filament colors and quantities for 3D printers. Intuitive software allows users to experience an extraordinary variety of colors and materials in an instant.

CALT Dynamics

Seed Round in 2019
CALT stands for Computer Aided Life Technology. We’re creating a new generation of 3D printers, that operate using a new process we have invented and patented called Physical Mask Curing. This process, PMC for short, is enabling us to build printers that are higher resolution, have a lower investment cost and are completely scalable. This means we can build printers that are mobile and field ready with no computer or internet required, right up to industrial devices with much larger build volumes than ever seen before.

ManiMe

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Mani.Me, Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells ready-to-wear manicures. It offers stick on gels made with 3D printing technology. The company sells its products online. Mani. Me, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

MetalMaker 3D

Pre Seed Round in 2018
MetalMaker 3D is developing an alternative solution for metal additive manufacturing.

Structur3d Printing

Seed Round in 2018
Structur3d Printing allows makers and 3D printers to work with pastes like silicone, polyurethane, latex, icing sugar. They're enabling 3D printers to go past just printing rigid plastics and create useful objects with real world applications using the right materials for the job.

Castor Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2018
CASTOR’s proprietary technology helps manufacturers assess how to apply industrial 3D printing to their production processes. By providing a comprehensive technical and cost-savings assessment for a full bill of materials, designers, NPI managers and production engineers have the critical information they need to effectively and efficiently make machine parts.

CALT Dynamics

Pre Seed Round in 2018
CALT stands for Computer Aided Life Technology. We’re creating a new generation of 3D printers, that operate using a new process we have invented and patented called Physical Mask Curing. This process, PMC for short, is enabling us to build printers that are higher resolution, have a lower investment cost and are completely scalable. This means we can build printers that are mobile and field ready with no computer or internet required, right up to industrial devices with much larger build volumes than ever seen before.

Micron3DP

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Micron3DP develops and introduces high resolution molten glass 3D printing. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Kfar Saba, Israel.

Additive Rocket Corporation

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Additive Rocket Corporation designs and manufactures rocket engines by leveraging metal 3D printing. The company also provides testing of liquid propellant thrusters and rocket engines. It caters to aerospace and defense industry. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in La Jolla, California.

Collider

Seed Round in 2017
Collider, Inc. designs and manufactures printers, under the name Orchid. Its product has applications in creation of silicones, rubber, plastics, and metal stands. Collider, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Halion

Seed Round in 2017
Halion Displays Inc. specializes in developing advanced display technology that mimics the appearance of print while enabling dynamic video playback. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Waterloo, Canada, the company focuses on creating low-power, daylight-visible displays suitable for portable devices like smartwatches and e-readers. Halion's innovative technology utilizes color-changing nanomaterials based on traditional printing inks—cyan, magenta, and yellow—that can rapidly switch colors to achieve high refresh rates. This enables a range of applications, including outdoor-visible displays and intelligent surfaces that can change color or patterns in response to user needs. By combining functionality with energy efficiency, Halion aims to establish a new global standard in display technology.

MacroFab

Funding Round in 2017
MacroFab is a marketplace for electronics manufacturing from prototype to high scale production. Their platform is re-shaping the $480B contract manufacturing market by transforming the experience from a manual, time-intensive, and error-prone process performed by large teams of people, into a real-time, streamlined, and connected software-driven experience while providing access to unlimited factory capacity in North America. The platform also uploads a PCB board design, gets an instant quote and the board is printed in the company's factory, enabling startups, manufacturers, and enterprises to design, customize and automate the PCB manufacturing process and save time, effort and money. Macrofab was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States.

Urban3D

Seed Round in 2016
Urban 3D is a company creating digital manufacturing technologies for the construction sector willing to solve for houselessness in the next 15 years.Its mission is to partner with governments and developers to eradicate houselessness within the next 15 years.

Mosaic Manufacturing

Seed Round in 2016
Mosaic Manufacturing Ltd. produces hardware and software for combining multiple filaments into single filament strand to be fed into a printer to enable 3D printing. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Create Real Estate

Seed Round in 2016
Create is a next generation property database and 3D mapping platform. Create develops smart 3D maps that instantly deliver rich data about the urban environment & property market.

Didimo

Seed Round in 2016
Didimo focuses on humanizing technology and reducing digital isolation. They automate 3D character creation - a once expensive and time-consuming task - in 30 sec or less. Their product - a Didimo - a lifelike 3D characters that look, act and speak like a person will connect every one of us more closely to the digital world, driving a new paradigm for communication, through the image they know the most - their own face.

Cartesian Co

Seed Round in 2015
Cartesian Co is a New York-based technology startup that creates the world's first desktop electronics printer, the Argentum.

MacroFab

Seed Round in 2015
MacroFab is a marketplace for electronics manufacturing from prototype to high scale production. Their platform is re-shaping the $480B contract manufacturing market by transforming the experience from a manual, time-intensive, and error-prone process performed by large teams of people, into a real-time, streamlined, and connected software-driven experience while providing access to unlimited factory capacity in North America. The platform also uploads a PCB board design, gets an instant quote and the board is printed in the company's factory, enabling startups, manufacturers, and enterprises to design, customize and automate the PCB manufacturing process and save time, effort and money. Macrofab was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States.

Open Bionics

Seed Round in 2015
Brunel Hand is a robotic hand with nine degrees of freedom for researchers. They use 3D printing to make their devices customized for each customer and accessible by anyone! They're developing the perfect medical grade materials to give their hands the right strength and grip and to make them last.

MakieLab

Seed Round in 2015
MakieLab is building social toys & games from the same dataset. They're taking 3D modelling for games, and 3D printing for manufacture, and building a pipeline to automatically produce both from a set of characters, furniture, or similar game and toy objects. Their first product is Makies, a new kind of future-smashing toy: customisable, 3D-printed, locally made, and game-enabled. Since Makies first launched in 2012, they've released two apps centering around super creative fashion play (Makies Doll Factory and Makies FabLab), launched Makies into Selfridges and Hamleys (London), won some lovely toy awards and shipped Makies to all four corners of the Earth.

PrintToPeer

Seed Round in 2015
The PrintToPeer remote management platform is a web-based dashboard that makes it easy to control your 3D printer from anywhere in the world, including queueing, starting and monitoring prints, and keeping track of your printer’s health. It is secure, mobile-friendly, and easy to use, with all of the information and controls that you need to manage and operate a 3D printer.

Sketchfab

Series A in 2015
Sketchfab is empowering a new era of creativity by making it easy for anyone to publish and find 3D content online. With a community of millions of creators who have published millions of models, it serves as a platform for immersive and interactive 3D. Additionally, its store lets buyers and sellers transact 3D models with confidence using our real-time viewer and model inspector.

Rational Robotics

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Rational Robotics is a manufacturer based in Edmonton, Canada, specializing in automatic coating robots. The company designs and develops robotic machines that provide auto body repainting services, utilizing advanced technology such as 3D scanning and custom algorithms to optimize tool paths for painting. Their robots incorporate computer vision to automate the painting process, ensuring high levels of accuracy and quality across various sizes of objects. By enhancing and automating part painting, Rational Robotics offers efficient solutions for enterprises seeking to improve their painting operations.

KWAMBIO

Angel Round in 2015
KWAMBIO partners with established and emerging designers to produce a highly curated collection of homewares, accessories, and art, manufactured on-demand in ceramics and metals. KWAMBIO.COM is not only an e-commerce website, but an interactive platform through which the anyone can customize a designer product using our proprietary software of KWAMBIO Filters that — much like Instagram — can be applied to a designer object to create beautiful variations in form, size, material and finish. The result is a unique one-of-a-kind commission between the designer and customer — 3D printed on-demand by the best manufacturers in the US or Europe. We invite design enthusiasts to engage in the design process through customization — because we believe in offering an object that is not just a product, but a one-of-a-kind commission between the designer and the customer. The company is headquartered in New York, NY. It was founded in 2014 by Vlad Usov and Dmitriy Krivoshey. KWAMBIO was presented to public for the very first time at the London 3D Printshow in September 2014, then at the IDCEE in October 2014 (where the company won the startup competition), and most recently at the New York 3D Printshow in April 2015. We joined the Techstars 2015 Summer class and has raised $1.2 million funding thus far.

Cartesian Co

Seed Round in 2015
Cartesian Co is a New York-based technology startup that creates the world's first desktop electronics printer, the Argentum.

Matter.io

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Matter.io specializes in the small-batch production of metal parts through advanced 3D printing and rapid molding techniques. The company offers a diverse selection of base and precious metals, including yellow and white brass, bronze, and sterling silver, which can be polished and plated in various finishes. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an additional location in New York, Matter.io primarily serves independent designers and businesses. The company aims to streamline the manufacturing process for product designers, facilitating efficient production and logistics comparable to the ease with which developers deploy servers.

Matter.io

Seed Round in 2014
Matter.io specializes in the small-batch production of metal parts through advanced 3D printing and rapid molding techniques. The company offers a diverse selection of base and precious metals, including yellow and white brass, bronze, and sterling silver, which can be polished and plated in various finishes. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an additional location in New York, Matter.io primarily serves independent designers and businesses. The company aims to streamline the manufacturing process for product designers, facilitating efficient production and logistics comparable to the ease with which developers deploy servers.

Sketchfab

Seed Round in 2013
Sketchfab is empowering a new era of creativity by making it easy for anyone to publish and find 3D content online. With a community of millions of creators who have published millions of models, it serves as a platform for immersive and interactive 3D. Additionally, its store lets buyers and sellers transact 3D models with confidence using our real-time viewer and model inspector.

Sketchfab

Seed Round in 2013
Sketchfab is empowering a new era of creativity by making it easy for anyone to publish and find 3D content online. With a community of millions of creators who have published millions of models, it serves as a platform for immersive and interactive 3D. Additionally, its store lets buyers and sellers transact 3D models with confidence using our real-time viewer and model inspector.

Voxon Photonics

Seed Round in 2012
Voxon Photonics are creators of the Voxon VX1 – the world’s most advanced three-dimensional (3D) volumetric display. Incorporated in 2013, we have teams based in Australia and the US that have been developing the 3D volumetric technology for more than nine years. Our 3D volumetric technology brings digital content to life and helps empower people to visualise, communicate, learn and have fun in a collaborative manner with no barrier to the 3D experience, and no glasses required. Our 3D Volumetric technology is unlike anything you’ve ever seen. In literal terms, we have created a futuristic display technology capable of producing truly 3D digital images that can render animated or static imagery as genuinely three-dimensional holograms – high definition, infinitely complex and manipulable, and viewable with the naked eye from any angle. No illusions. No special glasses. The volumetric science is absolutely cutting-edge. But emotionally, it couldn’t be simpler. When people see it in action for the first time, regardless of their age, interests or background, they are mesmerised. There, right in front of their eyes, is science fiction – magic – made real. With the Voxon Photonic Engine, the Voxon VX1, we haven’t just taken 3D holographic display to another level, we’ve launched it into a whole new dimension.