Drew Taylor

And we make money two ways.

Just like if you think of an Android Google Play model, we have two main products.

One side is software that goes inside a 3D printer that makes the printer very easy to operate.

That's free for personal use, but we charge for commercial use and branding, typically on a per printer basis.

Our main customer there being a printer manufacturer that needs software to drive their machine.

In the same way, if you created a new phone, you need an operating system to put

to put on that phone.

On the other side, we have our cloud-based 3D printing app store, where brands and developers can distribute content and applications directly into 3D printers, and we run a 70-30 revenue split on that, the same way Google does with their phone app store and Apple does on the iOS app store.

So we started in the summer of 2013, but with a different idea.

Uh, uh, let me think all of 2015.

Uh, yes.

Yeah.

So what we started with was the, I stock photo of 3d printing a cycle, 3d, a go-go.

So, so we were still in this space and then we went through the beta spring tech accelerator in, in Rhode Island in the, in, um, uh, 2014 and we pivoted to Astro print.

And then we launched when we went into 500 startups, which was, uh, October of 2014.

Right now, if we count two interns that came on yesterday, we're up to nine.

So we we've raised about four hundred thousand to date.

OK.

And we have a two million dollar round that's open now and about 50 percent subscribed.

Yeah, so I just want to clarify Beta Spring in Providence, Rhode Island, just because Beta Works is a fund in New York.