Money & Funding
Proxima Fusion closed a €411 million ($468 million) Series A2 financing round on July 7, 2026, pushing its valuation to €2.4 billion ($2.7 billion) and making it Europe’s best-funded fusion…
The CEO of AMufacture, a Portsmouth-based additive manufacturing contract manufacturer, has said the company is well positioned to help deliver the UK government’s Defense Investment Plan (DIP), which includes £5…
Venus Aerospace has closed a $91 million Series B round led by Mercury Fund, a Houston-based venture capital firm, with participation from investors including Lockheed Martin Ventures. The round follows…
Formlabs closed its strongest quarter to date last June, solar Q2 2026, setting company records across several categories: total sales, hardware sales, non-hardware sales, services sales, and SLS sales, the…
CurifyLabs has closed a $14 million Series A funding round co-led by Sandwater and HealthCap, with additional participation from Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd.), existing investor Lifeline Ventures, and with…
UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) has received a $1.15 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to purchase a 3D rapid nanoprinting system based on two-photon photolithography. The equipment will…
OTUS Project, the American research initiative focused on flying drones through the interiors of tornadoes, announced that it has officially received sponsorship from Bambu Lab under the Let’s Make It…
Tripo AI closed a Series A3 financing round of more than $150 million, drawing investors from the automotive, gaming, internet, and technology sectors, which the company described as a reflection…
The Additive Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (AMCRC) has launched a AUD $3.25 million (US $2.21m) funding initiative on July 1, 2026, aimed at helping small and medium-sized Australian manufacturers and…
June 30, 2026The Upside Down of polymer additive manufacturing
Doing forecasts is a thankless job. In a market evolving as fast as additive manufacturing, projecting revenues a decade out has become less useful than accurately sizing what exists today.…

