fibionic, an Austrian DeepTech startup specialising in bionically optimised fibre placement, right now introduced the closing of its €3 million Seed financing spherical, to additional industrialise its nature-inspired expertise for exact fibre placement and enter new markets.
The spherical was led by Redstone and Euregio+, along with co-lead traders Caesar and Leap435, in addition to numerous angel traders.
“With fibionic, we’re taking high-performance light-weight engineering to the following stage. We allow the quick, sustainable and cost-efficient manufacturing of extraordinarily high-performing, ultra-light merchandise,” stated Elias Hirschbichler, co-founder of fibionic.
Fibionic was based in 2021 by Thomas Rettenwander and Johannes Mandler. Hirschbichler joined the corporate as a co-founder later in 2024. The light-weight engineering firm has a patented course of for bionically impressed fibre placement. The corporate claims to have developed the world’s quickest and most effective expertise for manufacturing light-weight components, utilizing its patented, sustainable method referred to as “fibionic fibre placement” (FFP).
Based on the corporate, light-weight supplies are thought-about a key expertise for a lot of industries, together with sports activities gear, UAVs, robotics, industrial sectors, mobility, and extra. Nevertheless, manufacturing processes, materials utilization, and automation typically stay inefficient.
fibionic claims to deal with this drawback exactly with FPP. The corporate makes use of bionic ideas to align fibres particularly alongside precise load paths, impressed by constructions present in nature, such because the wings of a dragonfly.
It highlights that FFP is the world’s quickest, most effective and most sustainable fibre placement expertise, attaining cycle instances of as much as one minute per part. Consequently, fibre composite elements are produced considerably lighter, extra secure, and extra sustainable.
With FFP, fibionic claims to introduce a essentially new commonplace in course of optimisation for composite manufacturing.
The corporate has partnered with Italian heritage model Selle Italia, a number one producer of bicycle saddles, and is producing merchandise in large-scale collection utilizing the distinctive FFP course of to optimise weight, stability, and materials effectivity. Fibionic claims to sustainably save as much as 60% of fabric and scale back product weight by as much as 50%.
With this recent funding, the corporate plans to develop its industrial processes and additional develop its proprietary expertise platform. The corporate additionally intends to construct a high-impact staff in engineering and enterprise improvement.
fibionic’s intention is to switch pilot purposes into production-ready collection and scale its ecosystem, masking the complete course of from simulation and gear expertise to supplies gross sales and a devoted licensing mannequin. This method contains the event of linked standalone software program packages, from fibre trajectory optimisations to an automatic software development and working software program.
