Printing Money

For  Printing Money’s first episode in 2024, Danny is joined by returning guest Dayton Horvath, Director of Emerging Technology at AMT , and by Dayton’s colleague, Chris Chidzik, Principal Economist at AMT.  First, we zoom out and look with Chris at the manufacturing sector as a whole. Then we zoom back in with Dayton, and focus on the additive manufacturing (AM) market activity in the...

Happy holidays to our esteemed  Printing Money  listeners. Alex re-joins for this episode, and we also welcome back Arno Held from AM Ventures. There have been a number of thought provoking 3DP/AM transactions and impressive venture rounds since  we last covered these topics in Episode 11 .  Danny, Alex and Arno have you covered with a wealth of knowledge about a...

Episode 12 of Printing Money brings with it a slightly different approach, as Alex Kingsbury sits this one out while Danny  runs the show.  Equity research analyst Troy Jensen, now of  Cantor Fitzgerald , joins  Danny  for this episode, with a slew of Q3 2023 quarterly reports to consider.   Danny and Troy review earnings from the majority of publicly listed 3D printing hardware and services compa...

Start-up advisor and corporate strategy consultant Tali Rosman joins Alex and Danny for this episode packed with M&A deals and VC financings. The trio start with a conversation on M&A activity around service bureaus with metal bureau provider i3D MFG being acquired by ERA Industries, then onto polymers withy Rapid processing Solutions being acquired by GoEngineer. Some encouraging activity...

In this bonus episode, Alex and Danny interview Ric Fulop, co-founder and CEO of Desktop Metal. Desktop Metal has recently concluded merger talks with Stratasys after a shareholder vote led to a termination of the deal. In this interview, Ric dives into his motivations for the merger, and shares much of the background context on Desktop Metal’s history with Stratasys, plus other players such as Na...

Episode 9 of Printing Money starts with some positive industry news as Alex and Danny discuss Vienna-based Cubicure being acquired by orthodontic company Align Technology. However it’s swings and roundabouts in the 3D printing industry, as Sigma Additive announces plans to sell its additive manufacturing IP to become an online travel company. In the venture world, a number of start-ups have made p...

A summer slow down in financings means that Troy, Danny, and Alex get to spend more time on acquisitions and the public markets this episode. Two acquisitions are up for discussion: SLM Solutions purchase of Adira Addcreative, and that of Xerox’s Elem Additive by ADDiTEC. Next, the public markets have just completed Q2 reporting, so Troy Jensen, Senior Research Analyst from Lake Street Capit...

The deals didn’t take a break over the summer, as Alex and Danny have plenty to discuss in this July episode of Printing Money . Applications increasingly take centre stage as Conformis is acquired by restor3D, and Lightforce raise an impressive Series D, showing maturity in the medical and dental fields; while Sintavia and Agile Space attracted funding showing strength in the aerospace and space...

Dayton Horvath, director of Emerging Technology at the Association of Manufacturing Technology , joins Alex and Danny for a look at the public and private markets in 3D printing. Starting with the 3D Systems bid for Stratasys, the trio recap what has led to this most recent bid and weigh up the different outcomes for Stratasys. Two personalised implant companies are also up for discussion in this...

In what is shaping up to be the biggest deal in the 3D printing industry of 2023, Stratasys and Desktop Metal will combine to form a $1.8 billion company. Alex and Danny unpack the particulars of the deal, including some of the motivations behind it, namely repeated takeover attempts of Stratasys by Nano Dimension. The product portfolios of both Stratasys (Nasdaq: SSYS ) and Desktop Metal (NYSE: D...

Arno Held, Managing Partner of AM Ventures , joins Alex and Danny for an episode heavily focused on recent VC deals, from series A to C+ across the globe, including ARRIS Composites , Quantica , Boston Micro Fabrication , and stealth-mode start-up Fluent Metal . IPOs from Farsoon and XJET are discussed; with some commentary on the latest quarterly results from the public markets showing a soft cap...

Special guest Troy Jensen, Senior Research Analyst with Lake Street Capital Markets , joins Alex and Danny for a closer look at some of the biggest publicly listed 3d printing companies. In this episode Alex, Danny, and Troy discuss the hostile takeover attempt of Stratasys by Nano Dimension, 3D Systems’ performance and valuation, Desktop Metal versus Markforged, Velo3D’s point of diff...

So many 3D printing companies rely on venture capital (VC) to fund development and growth plans, so the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was a huge shock to the additive manufacturing industry. In this episode of “Printing Money,” we discuss how the news relates to some recent significant VC announcements: Fabric8Labs raising its Series B , plus another application-centric compan...

As the additive manufacturing industry continues to rapidly grow and evolve, so too does the financing that enables the technology innovation. ‘Printing Money’ takes a deeper look at the transactions behind some of the most innovative 3D printing businesses. Episode 1 sees us unpack the current state of the 3D printing public markets and M&A activity, covering Nano Dimension ’s (Nasdaq:  NNDM...