Okay, so they didn’t really fight to the death, but, at Inside 3D Printing in NYC, startups did take place in a competition of sorts. We had just finished up a panel discussion on the various ways one might invest in 3D printing, in which it was advised that one possible method for getting in on the 3DP action was to find a startup and invest your hard-earned dollars. And, immediately following, we were greeted with five up and coming 3D printing businesses that gave five minute schpiels in which they tried to sell us on their business models. Here’s the rundown:
3Discovered
3Discovered CEO Peer Munck relayed the visions for his company, a printables marketplace that he thought might take care of some of the drawbacks to already existing marketplaces, like Shapeways. The basic idea is that larger commercial companies (Ford was the example he used) might upload a design, which customers could have printed via a distributed network of 3D printers (not unlike 3DHubs). They’d protect the IP of the companies through digital rights management and ensure quality by validating designs before printing them.…
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