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Printer Startup Ideas

2 years ago

An API for DIYers to build and share 3D printers.

215

4 years ago

This is a startup that sells the parts needed to build a 3D printer.

212

5 years ago

A tool that allows people to create their own 3D models of objects and designs and have them printed on a 3D printer.

180

3 years ago

This company wants to help you “make your own damn cheese”, with a 3D printer that will create your own cheese.

179

4 years ago

A startup that allows people to print out a physical receipt for their purchase. The startup wants to build a digital receipt option for stores that doesn’t require a printer.

176

5 years ago

A company that is building a marketplace for 3D printers.

169

5 years ago

A startup that makes a 3D printer that can print all of the components needed for a phone, including the glass and battery.

169

5 years ago

This startup is building a “frictionless” digital sales platform for printers.

161

5 years ago

A startup that wants to make open-source software for 3D printers. The founders are tech veterans who have built digital fabrication tools before.

156

5 years ago

A hardware startup that builds medical devices. It’s the first company to make a 3D printer for producing pacemakers.

147

5 years ago

A startup that provides a set of tools for designers to create their own custom-designed clothes. The company uses a 3D printer to produce knit fabrics.

145

5 years ago

An online service that wants to help companies manage their manufacturing process. Their first product is a $2,000 kit that comes with a 3D printer and 3D printer-compatible materials.

143

5 years ago

The company is pairing the digital technology used by banks to process payments to the physical elements of a cash machine, such as a keypad and a printer, to create an end-to-end solution.

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5 years ago 3 views

The startup is working with partners to bootstrap the growth of a small-scale 3D printing community by providing the equipment and resources to move from a maker-model printer to a high-quality commercial printer.

127

4 years ago

A “sticker printer” that prints QR codes to open apps on phones.

120

5 years ago

A company that lets people borrow a single printer that can print out 100,000 copies of a document. This smart printer will print at an incredibly high resolution — the company claims it will print at “40 times the resolution of a typical home printer”.

117

5 years ago

A startup that will take waste from 3D printers and turn it into bricks.

113

5 years ago

This startup is building a platform to help users build their own phone cases. Its mobile app lets customers customize the case, and a 3D printer can then print it out.

111

2 years ago

A maker of hardware parts and tools for 3D printing. Their 3D printers are 3 times the cost of those from competitors.

111

3 years ago

Build, share and sell your own 3D printer. The product is based on the open source RepRap technology.

109

5 years ago

The first public hardware offering from Spin, a company that makes a 3D printer, will be a small plastic ball that you can use to make jewelry.

100

5 years ago

A startup that makes a 3D printer designed for makers that’s affordable for schools and other startups. It also offers a crowdfunding platform for projects that need a 3D printer.

99

3 years ago

A startup that has built a 3D printer for taking 3D scans of your body and building it directly into a 3D printed prosthetic.

99

5 years ago

A B2B company that provides customers with a toner printer that prints directly onto their paper

96

5 years ago

A free 3D printer for students and educators. The company is also launching a subscription service to provide access to more advanced models and features.

96

4 years ago

This startup is building an online marketplace for building and selling custom-designed 3D printed products. The company has raised over $1m so far, and has its own 3D printer.

91

3 years ago

A startup that helps companies rent or sell their excess equipment like routers, printers and computers

89

4 years ago

A startup that sells beautiful, custom-made earrings constructed using 3D printers.

84

4 years ago

A new way to use 3D printers, allowing people to use the printers to create simple objects in the same way they would use a 3D printer to create more detailed objects.

83

4 years ago

This company claims to have a 3D laser printer for just $10. The startup's first product is a 3D laser printer for $10.

82

4 years ago

A startup that builds 3D printers that can build custom iPhone cases.

81

4 years ago

A 3D printer aimed at small businesses.

81

4 years ago

A startup that’s building a platform to allow users to create their own custom-engineered blocks on a 3D printer. Those blocks can be used to construct robot arms, medical devices, and other tools.

80

4 years ago

A startup that’s building a tool for creating interactive 3D models of objects, which are then easier to ship. The company wants to help them more efficiently use their 3D printers.

80

3 years ago

A company that has created a large, affordable 3D printer for the masses.

80

4 years ago

3D printers designed specifically to work with medical devices.

78

4 years ago

A CNC milling machine for 3D printing that has a heated build plate, a 3D printer kit, and a software program for designing and controlling the machine directly from your computer.

77

3 years ago

A software/hardware startup that is building an industrial-grade 3D printer for deposition of materials at industrial scales.

76

2 years ago

This startup aims to make it easier to ship products by making it easier to build something on a 3D printer, selling kit tools designed to make assembly and fabrication of complex products simple and easy.

76

4 years ago

A company that makes 3D printing filament for 3D printers. According to the company, “no one else makes what we make”, which is particularly important for companies that are new to 3D printing.

74

4 years ago

A startup that builds printers that are designed to look like plants, with wood grain and other organic details.

74

4 years ago

The startup offers a tool for companies to make their own custom, branded products, using a 3D printer and a factory in China. The company has partnered with Unilever, United Parcel Service, and Chipotle among others.

72

4 years ago

A 3D printer that prints out 3D printed parts for people to build and customize their own cars.

69

2 years ago

a 3D-printing startup from India. The company is building 3D printers for the developing world — it has machines for $500, $800, and $1,400.

64

4 years ago

This company, together with the MIT Media Lab, is developing a 3D printer that can print any object with a human face.

63

3 years ago

A community of people who are building and selling 3D printers.

60

3 years ago

This healthcare startup is working on a new way for patients to store and manage their medical records, using a 3D printer.

59

3 years ago

A machine that prints out your designs, like a 3-D printer, but for essentially any object, meaning you could print out a phone case, mug, or shirt. The machines, which look like a 3-D printer, are rolling out in the US and will be in the UK by the end of the year.

58

3 years ago

A tiny personal computer for a few dollars with a 3D printer for $4,000.

57

3 years ago

The startup is building a 3D printer for small scale production. The founders met at Techstars, where they were early on a Y Combinator batch.

57

3 years ago

A hardware startup that sells a low-cost, low-energy, laser-based 3D printer that can print out objects from a 3D file. The team at PRINT.AI is led by a serial entrepreneur who has participated in Y Combinator, including projects such as Exakte and Foundry.

57

3 years ago

A distributed supply chain platform that tries to bridge the gap between e-commerce and the physical world. They’re a B2B company that builds things like industrial robots and 3D printers, and help them connect securely to the e-commerce infrastructure of Amazon and Alibaba.

57

2 years ago

A startup that helps manufacturers with the production of custom furniture. The startup wants to help manufacturers build furniture that can be made with a 3D printer. The startup is looking for real-estate spaces in the US for its manufacturing plants.

56

4 years ago

The startup is working on a platform that allows customers to design, produce, and print custom cards with 3D printers. The cards can be used as gift cards, business cards, or personal cards. The company is working with a few customers like Shopify and Microsoft, for whom the cards are used for employee rewards.

55

3 years ago

This startup is building a consumer-grade 3D printer, the first in the consumer space to use stereolithography. The company is using its own designs to make the first consumer-grade 3D printer to use stereolithography, a process that builds one object from multiple smaller ones.

55

3 years ago

A 3D printer that can print organic materials

53

4 years ago

A 3D printing service for businesses, customized for every business, with hundreds of products and designs in inventory, and a 3D printer in every office. It’s a “solution for businesses that have a need for customized, high-quality products.”

52

3 years ago

A startup that wants to design and manufacture open source 3D printers for schools and home workshops.

52

3 years ago

A hardware company that wants to build a hardware-based receipt printer that can produce receipts on demand. The company wants to use the same materials as the paper industry, which is more sustainable than inkjet.

51

5 years ago

A startup that sells physical gifts that you can print out on a 3D printer (IE: A keychain, a tissue box, a phone case)

49

2 years ago

A company that makes a way to print 3D models, letting users send off templates to printers for fast custom orders.

49

3 years ago

Invented a way to make a 3D printer truly 3D by using mirrors, which allows the printer to create objects that can be seen from all sides, without losing the computer-generated image being printed.

47

2 years ago

A tool to help startup founders build their startup vision. It’s a virtual printer that allows you to build a full-scale prototype of your product with a few clicks of your mouse. The startup is looking to make prototyping a viable alternative to using physical models.

47

3 years ago

A platform that allows small businesses to make their own custom branded objects in a 3D printer

45

2 years ago

A startup for 3D printing designs. The startup capitalizes on the advertising and marketing revenue that 3D printers generate, allowing people to design and sell their own products.

45

5 years ago

Idea: An online marketplace for buying and selling 3D-printed objects. The startup aims to be a marketplace for a new generation of makers, with a platform to bring together designers, engineers, and 3D-printers. They currently have 500 open-ended jobs, and a $1k average order size.

37

2 years ago

Idrobot is building a modular robotic platform inspired by the 3-D printer, and a robot that can assemble itself.

32

2 years ago

A digital twin of your house. The startup is working on a way to build these simulations with 3D printers, allowing you to walk through your home and test out different models.

32

2 years ago

The company sells a tool that allows people to design their own clothes using a 3D printer.

32

2 years ago

A faster, simpler way to manage your 3D printer, allowing users to create 3D designs from a phone or web browser and download the resulting files.

31

2 years ago

A 3D printer that prints a layer-by-layer model of a structure, with support structures that can be cut with a laser. The startup says that their first product is the world’s first 3D printed bridge.

26

2 years ago

A startup that allows users to print 3D designs from a 3D printer.

26

2 years ago

A startup that is building a 3D printer designed to be used by disabled people. It’s also trying to solve the “other” market problem that 3D printers are expensive and hard for non-disabled people to use.

24

2 years ago

A 3D printing service for small businesses, which uses a cloud-based pipeline to create a 3D model and then send an STL file to a 3D printer for printing.

22

2 years ago

A startup that wants to build a 3D printer that can print with bio-based plastics.

22

2 years ago

A startup that makes a 3D printer. The startup is taking a unique approach by selling the printers to consumers directly.

21

2 years ago

A company that helps makers of 3D printers streamline production and reduce costs by building a marketplace for products produced by 3D printers.

21

2 years ago

A company that lets you create a custom “micro-task” for employees to complete in the workplace. The tool is meant to make “simple work” for workers – like copying something, going to the printer and printing a document, or printing a receipt.

17

2 years ago

A startup that makes a new type of inkjet printer that they say has better resolution and higher quality printing than existing models. Their technology uses a laser to heat up the ink, and they say it reduces the amount of ink needed by as much as 75%.

15

2 years ago

This is a new type of computer chip that’s about the size of a postage stamp. It’s designed to fit in a single transistor and can be printed on a standard inkjet printer.

15

2 years ago

A 3D printer that allows users to design and print customized prosthetics.

14

5 years ago

A startup that makes a custom-designed and usable 3D printer

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