Additive Marking receives six-figure sum

Making components from the 3D printer forgery-proof - that is the mission of Additive Marking. The Paderborn-based company has now received capital from a group of business angels.

Additive Marking has completed a six-figure financing round. The existing investor Archimedes New Ventures and the Haver Business Angel Group of Ulrich Bastert, Volker Bastert, Eckard Heidloff, Horst Joepen, Arjen R. Klei and Reinhard Rabenstein have participated. The exact amount is not known.

Additive Marking offers a process that makes components from 3D printers forgery-proof and traceable. To do this, the start-up creates robust, machine-readable codes on the manufactured products. The company, which was founded in Paderborn in 2018 by Ulrich Jahnke, Matthias Habdank and Philipp Alexander Bornefeld, also offers software solutions, training and consulting for secure 3D printing processes.

Additive Marking intends to use the capital from the financing round to expand its project and consulting capacities and increase sales. "In addition to the fresh capital, which will enable us to tap into new markets, we will benefit in particular from the expertise within the group of shareholders," says Ulrich Jahnke, co-founder of the start-up.