Tag: 3-D
Metamason draws $3M in funding
June 7, 2016HME News Staff
LOS ANGELES - Metamason, the company behind a 3-D scanned and printed customized CPAP mask, has closed on a $3 million Series Seed financing round. The investment was led by 3P Equity Partners, a manufacturing-focused private equity firm in San Jose, Calif., and Tsing Capital, a leading “cleantech” venture capital firm in China. “We are thrilled to reach this important milestone for the company,” said CEO Leslie Oliver Karpas. “Our investors are confident that Metamason...
3-D technology intrigues prosthetists
April 10, 2015Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine - It sounds like something out of a sci-fi film: artificial limbs rolling off a 3-D printer.
“There are a lot of people out there getting all excited about 3-D printing,” said Dennis Clark, president of the Orthotics and Prosthetics Group of America (OPGA), a division of The VGM Group. “To me, this is just a material or process change. It's the next thing.”
Google “3-D printing + prosthetics” and nearly 31,000 results appear. Currently,...