# MadeSolid

Next-Gen Materials for 3D Printers

## Elevator pitch
3M for 3D Printing, turning 3D Printers into factories that make useful stuff through material inputs.

- Canonical URL: https://wefunder.com/madesolid
- Entity ID: wefunder:company:8217
- Last updated: 2026-06-23T05:01:09Z
- Generated at: 2026-06-24T02:41:44Z

## Quick facts
- Average 34% monthly growth
- 80% average margin on all products
- Develops materials for FDM and SLA printers
- Customers in 40 countries
- Used by the biggest names in electronics
- Harley Davidson, Intel customers

## Active fundraises
- wefunder:fundraise:5147: 506(b) successful (USD)

## Story
We've been called the "Mad Scientists of 3D Printing". That's pretty accurate.

## FAQ
1. **Do you have limitations on the materials you can develop based on how current 3D printers are designed?**
   - There definitely are limitations. We are incredibly talented so we can create materials for existing machines that no one else has been able to yet. But, to print out things like glass, we have to change the way that machines run. One of our goals is to secure IP around a new print head technology that would enable use of a much wider range of materials. There's these amazing super materials that are sitting on the shelf in some lab, and if manufacturers would just make a couple tweaks to the...
2. **Hi Lance. We'd be interested in selling your materials on our 3D print shop site, www.pixellounge.co.uk and are really interested in what you guys are making possible and we'd like to help spread the word. We're based in London.**
   - Hi Jonathan, Glad to hear you want to resell our material! Send an email to listening@madesolid.com and we can start that conversation. Cheers! ~lance
3. **Your honest opinion of why you aren't just being bought out by DDD or SSYS who seem to be snatching up anything and everything 3D? Their deep pockets could give you the funding, market penetration, brand, and much more. I know there are other 3D companies printing metal and su...**
   - Hi Karan, we are on the radar of all these companies, I cannot comment further on details. Most of the effort of the large firms is on dealing with the influx of smaller, nimbler competitors who are making machines. Indeed much of the focus has been on machines and how to protect their ‘ink’ as it currently stands rather than innovate in the materials space. I was told point blank that the reason we have not been acquired yet is because we don’t have our own machine. Although this may seem fo...
4. **How environmentally sustainable are the materials? i think this is becoming a more and more important point - looking at all the plastic waste in our oceans.**
   - Hi Steven, Great question, starting off with our PET+ material, PET+ is created from the most recyclable polymer on the planet, PET, and we are working on not only the recyclability but also sourcing raw feedstock that is created using green chemistry. Many of the chemistries we are exploring can be produced or derived from natural products such as cellulose, and I think that will have a major impact on environmental sustainability.
5. **Hi Lance - Great work so far. I was considering an investment and had a question about the patent work. You don't need to disclose who in particular is working on it if you aren't comfortable, but are you using an experienced IP firm for both the provisional and non-provisiona...**
   - We are working with a very experienced firm in these matters. Would love to be connected to anyone with an interest in this area who could help us going forward. Thank you for the question!

## Team
- Lance Pickens (CEO)
- David Rorex (CTO)
- Pete Walton (VP Marketing & Ops)
- Tomio Mizoroki (Head of Production)
- Sam Bozek (Quality Control Chemist)
- Janina Motter (Materials Scientist)
- Ricardo Corona (Product Manager)
- Elliot Spector (Logistics Coordinator)

## Recent posts
- We've updated our profile with our YC demo day pitch from earlier in the year, a monthly revenue graph since launch, our investor slide deck, a podcast of our interview with Wefunder, and a couple videos showing off our products. We're also doing a live Q&A for all of our followers and potential investors next week. We'll send out more information about that shortly. (2014-12-11T23:13:09Z)

## Q&A
- Q: Can the investors get an update?
- Q: Hello Lance. What are your thoughts on Carbon3D and their CLIP printing technique. Are your resins compatible with this type of printing technique?
  - A: Hi Dilraj, Carbon3D has been a customer of MadeSolid since the middle of 2014. Yes our resins are most definitely compatible.
- Q: When will we receive the 2018 K1?
- Q: Hello. How I can buy a madesolid materials ?
- Q: Any updates on the sale of the company? Its been 7+ months and no updates have been posted. Thanks.
- Q: When do we receive 2016 k-1'S?
- Q: Anyone have an update for us?
- Q: Hello, My name is miss laura, i saw your profile and it drew my attention to write to you. I would like you to communicate me through my e-mail address (sgt.lauraralph2@gmail.com) laura
- Q: Hi Lance, any luck with the sale of MadeSolid? What avenues are you pursuing to sell the company?
- Q: I don't know which competitors to contact but if you need help negotiating a sale let me know (and reach out to other investors too)
- Q: I have a connection that may help facilitate the sale. How do I get in touch with you?
  - A: Hi Tre, thank you for reaching out, please contact me directly at lance@madesolid.com or my mobile 510.859.4251
- Q: Lance, have you reached out to your competition to make it known that you want to sell the company?
  - A: Hi Neill, Yes I have reached out to some major competitors, I am reaching out to more this week. I'm open to any suggestions for companies I should contact.
- Q: Hello Lance, I noticed that the madesolid website has been down for a little while. Down for maintenance? Any new updates?
- Q: Do you have plans to produce materials for metal printing? Any long term plans to enter the 3d food printing market (although I doubt this would be a viable industry with the current tech available). What are your thoughts on The HP and Microsoft consortium developing a new software standard for 3d printing?
  - A: Yes we do have metal 3D printing plans, in fact we received our NSF SBIR grant precisely for extremely high res metal 3D printing. We received additional funding for expanding the technology to print ceramic materials as well. We can execute quickly on bringing metal materials to market for the SLS machines, after a larger round this is something I want to pursue. As for food, we could enter the market anytime we want, for us the chemistry is our playground and food is another kind of material. If we did anything in this space we would most definitely need to build a printer too. HP and Microsoft. I have high hopes they can do some good here for the industry, I have not been impressed with the software formats I've seen to date. Lots of room for real innovation here. For me, the big software challenge are design tools that allow programmatic placement of materials. One of the cool areas of development is multi material 3D printing, it's going to be awesome but there is no software that really gets it yet. Thank you for the questions!
- Q: Saw this link today from Crunchbase and thought of you guys! (3D Print Show in Berlin March 26-28) http://3dprintshow.com/