Maxim Lobovsky Co-Founder, Formlabs
Maxim launched a successful career as an entrepreneur and start-up founder by age 25. As a master’s student at MIT’s Media Lab, Lobovsky enjoyed access to three-dimensional printers to create necessary components for his projects, designed and printed to spec. Lobovsky could see the potential applications of 3D printing for designers, architects, engineers, and other small businesses; however, the machines he used were prohibitively expensive.
After graduating, Lobovsky worked with two of his friends to create the first small-scale, affordable 3D printer for “prosumers,” or professional consumers, and thus was born his start-up, Formlabs. Once they had a prototype, called the Form 1, Lobovsky and Formlabs’ co-founders began a Kickstarter campaign, using the power of crowdsourced funding to finance the production of commercial models. Formlabs raised more than $1 million in a week, and nearly $3 million overall—30 times their original fundraising goal. Formlabs has since raised $19 million in venture funding and continues to lead the high-resolution desktop 3D printing market.
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