How Startups, M&A, and Business Strategies are Shaping the Additive Manufacturing Landscape

How Startups, M&A and Business Strategies are Shaping the Additive Manufacturing Landscape, Conference Presentation at TCT Conference@Formnext 2018, Dayton Horvath

Synopsis: Business strategies in additive manufacturing are shaping the industry’s investment, startup, and M&A landscape. To understand how companies are maximizing value while minimizing risk, extensive data analysis of past investments, mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships is required. This presentation discusses recent activities, technology trends, and the strategies driving this fast moving industry forward. Hardware, materials, and software technologies are combining to create a complex global value chain. By examining this value chain and its various participants, a partnership plan can be developed for suppliers, technology developers, service providers, and end users that results in a long term competitive advantage. Additionally, taking insights from the scalability and economics of the various 3D printing processes reinforces past business transactions while also helping predict the future technology mix and its broader implications.