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MadeSolid

The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.

Founded2014
Event year2016
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT

What the company did

MadeSolid was an Emeryville, California 3D printing materials startup, a Y Combinator Winter 2014 company founded by Lance Pickens and David Rorex. The chemistry-focused team developed advanced filaments and UV-curable resins for desktop and prosumer 3D printers, including PET+ filament, the FireCast and PhoenixCast burn-away casting resins, and Tough Resin for durable functional parts. The company raised about $1.1 million plus a $300,900 equity crowdfunding round and a $180,000 NSF grant, and went out of business in 2016.

02 / FAILURE REASONS

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03 / EVENT HISTORY

Events in the structured record

  1. Y Combinator and seed funding

    MadeSolid went through Y Combinator's Winter 2014 batch, raised a $97,000 accelerator round in March 2014 and a $1 million seed round in May 2014, and launched its first casting resins.

  2. Product expansion

    The company closed a $300,900 equity crowdfunding round on Wefunder in February 2015, received a $180,000 NSF grant, and released Tough Resin, FlexSolid and PhoenixCast materials.

  3. Out of business

    PitchBook marks MadeSolid as out of business as of May 2016; Y Combinator lists the company as inactive.

04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT

Difficulty of rebuilding this project today

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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN

How the factors connect

  1. 01

    Y Combinator Winter 2014 company founded by CEO Lance Pickens and CTO David Rorex; developed filaments and UV-curable resins for FDM and SLA printers.

  2. 02

    Raised $97,000 accelerator funding (March 2014), $1 million seed (May 2014), $300,900 equity crowdfunding on Wefunder (February 2015) and a $180,000 NSF grant (2015).

  3. 03

    Product line included PET+ filament, FireCast and PhoenixCast investment-casting resins, Tough Resin and FlexSolid.

  4. 04

    Listed as out of business as of May 2016 (PitchBook) and inactive (Y Combinator); no public shutdown announcement or postmortem found.

  5. 05

    No reliable loss figure disclosed; funding amounts are not losses.