ServiceMelbourne, Victoria, AustraliaFounded 2019· One of 1986 Service companies tracked by AMPulse
Provides quality assurance services and in-situ monitoring solutions for additive manufacturing processes, ensuring real-time fault detection and process reliability.
CEO / Founder
Marten Jurg
Team Size
11-50
Stage
Active
Total Funding
$5.7M
Latest Round
Venture Round
Key Investors
IP Group, Hostplus
Technology & Products
Key Products
AMiRIS (real-time quality monitoring solution for metal LPBF 3D printing)
Technological Advantage
Leverages cutting-edge sensing technologies and proprietary algorithms to ensure product quality in metal additive manufacturing.
Differentiation
Value Proposition
Ensuring the quality and reliability of 3D printing processes through real-time monitoring and advanced analytics.
How They Differentiate
Specialized focus on metal additive manufacturing quality assurance and real-time monitoring, ensuring higher reliability and process transparency.
Market & Competition
Target Customers
Industries utilizing additive manufacturing such as aerospace, automotive, healthcare, defense, and energy.
Additive Assurance positions itself as a specialized quality assurance provider for metal additive manufacturing, addressing a critical gap in production-grade LPBF: the lack of real-time process visibility. Its core product, AMiRIS, monitors the melt pool during printing and uses proprietary algorithms to detect anomalies as they occur, enabling operators to intervene before a build is scrapped. This shifts quality control from post-process inspection to in-process assurance, a distinction that matters for high-stakes applications in aerospace and defense.
The company's technology is built on sensing hardware and machine learning models trained on defect signatures in metal powder bed fusion. AMiRIS is designed to integrate with existing LPBF systems rather than requiring dedicated hardware, which lowers the adoption barrier for contract manufacturers and OEMs. The system reports layer-by-layer quality metrics, giving engineers traceability data that can support certification requirements in regulated industries.
Additive Assurance serves customers in aerospace, automotive, healthcare, energy, and defense. Named partners include Volkswagen and Additive Industries, suggesting the solution is being validated in both serial production and machine OEM contexts. The company was founded out of Monash University in 2019 and has raised $5.7 million from IP Group and Hostplus.
The competitive landscape includes Senvol, Equispheres, AMiquam, and Addiguru, but Additive Assurance differentiates through its exclusive focus on metal LPBF quality assurance and real-time monitoring. Its main open question is whether the platform can scale beyond early adopters to become a standard fixture on production floors, particularly as machine builders increasingly embed their own monitoring software.
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