Best 3D Printing Companies in Italy
The 60 best 3D Printing companies in Italy in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Caracol AM.
Tracking the best 3D Printing companies in Italy by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum, our directory covers 60 firms with a combined $17M raised — a number that tells you something real about where Italian additive manufacturing sits right now: early, concentrated, and moving fast in specific pockets.
Caracol AM leads hard at $12M, which is 70% of the entire funding pool on its own. Roboze follows at $3M, 3DNextech at $2M, and then the field drops sharply. So the honest read here is that two or three players are doing the heavy lifting while the rest of the cohort is still in formation. That concentration isn't a weakness, necessarily — it's a signal of where institutional conviction is landing. Investors like CDP Venture Capital and H-FARM are betting on a global market that, according to recent projections, is tracking toward $186.4B by 2032 at a 21% CAGR. And as 2017 research on material systems shows, the underlying science behind additive manufacturing has matured enough to support exactly the kind of industrial-scale ambitions Italian firms are now chasing. Metal additive manufacturing and composite fabrication are the themes I keep seeing dominate coverage this quarter. Watch this space.
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Ranked: Best 3D Printing companies in Italy
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caracol AM Provider of 3D printing training and workshop services 72Growth top 20%Innovation top 24%News top 28%Talent top 28% All 11 signals ▾Growthtop 20% Innovationtop 24% Newstop 28% Talenttop 28% Producttop 33% Fundingtop 34% Patentstop 36% Moattop 38% Techtop 47% Marketbottom 42% Globalbottom 36% Growth: Web rank 10,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY · 5 acquisition/expansion moves in 24 mo Innovation: 29 patents (top 41% of patent-holders) · 28 filings since 2022 vs 1 in 2017-21 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $12M | 8 mo ago | Series B | Giovanni Avallone Co-Founder | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | 29 patents Additive manufacturing hardware: extrusion print heads, material feeding, and 3D printing apparatus. | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 2 | Roboze Manufacturer beltless desktop 3D printers 48Partners top 32%Innovation top 45%Tech top 46%News top 46% All 11 signals ▾Partnerstop 32% Innovationtop 45% Techtop 46% Newstop 46% Producttop 46% Growthtop 47% Markettop 49% Moatbottom 49% Fundingbottom 48% Patentsbottom 42% Globalbottom 38% Partners: 2 partnership announcements in 12 mo (2 in 24 mo) Innovation: 13 patents (top 62% of patent-holders) · 3 product lines rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $3M | 4 mo ago | Series A | — | 2014 | Node.jsUbuntuYouTube+16 | 13 patents Patents concentrated in transport & manufacturing processes | 1 partnership |
| 3 | 3DNextech Manufacturer of 3D pre-production and post-production devices | $2M | 28 mo ago | Seed | Andrea Arienti CEO and founder | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | 24 patents Finishing and texturing of polymeric 3D‑printed parts (surface smoothing, pattern imprinting). | — |
| 4 | Moi Composites Developer of continuous fiber manufacturing technology for composite material production | $110K | 76 mo ago | Funding Raised | Gabriele Natale Co-Founder | 2018 | — | 29 patents Additive manufacturing of continuous-fiber reinforced composite structures | — |
| 5 | Prometheus Developer of 3D human tissue | $69K | 89 mo ago | Funding Raised | Alice Michelangeli Co-Founder & CSO | 2017 | — | 5 patents Efficient DC‑DC power conversion for renewable energy generation and storage systems | — |
| 6 | Desamanera Large size 3D printer for printing with stone | $28K | 112 mo ago | Funding Raised | Antonino Italiano Founder & Executive Managing Director | 2014 | — | 5 patents Inorganic geopolymer binders for 3D‑printed construction and additive manufacturing. | — |
| 7 | CRP Technology Powders for finishing a 3D Printed product | — | 48 mo ago | Seed | — | 2011 | WordPressMySQLPHP+14 | 2 patents Metal powder formulations for rapid‑prototype sintering in additive manufacturing | 1 job opening |
| 8 | MAT3D Manufacturer of polymeric materials for 3D printing | — | 82 mo ago | Seed | Francesca Bisi Co-Founder | 2016 | — | 8 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
Top 10 3D Printing companies in Italy
#1
Series B · Lomazzo, Lombardy · founded 2017 · 39 employees$11.6Mraised▾
Provider of 3D printing training and workshop services. It uses its proprietary robotic additive manufacturing technology to print industrial parts based on PLA, ABS, rubber and hemp.
- Oct 2025Series B$40M
- Mar 2023Series A$11.3M
- Dec 2022Grant (prize money)$327K
- Sep 2020Seed$355.1K
#2
Series A · Bari, Apulia · founded 2014 · 100 employees$3.4Mraised▾
Manufacturer beltless desktop 3D printers. They replaced the belt system for movement with their patented mechatronic movement technology, in which motion of the X and Y axes were assigned to racks and helical pinions in tempered steel. It also offers slicing software for remote monitoring, management, and performance enhancement.
#3
Seed · Livorno Ferraris, Piedmont · founded 2015 · 7 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Manufacturer of 3D pre-production and post-production devices. It designs and develops devices to optimize pre production and post production in 3D printing. It supports processes across multiple verticals, such as medical, architecture, design etc.
- Feb 2024Seed$1.6M
- Apr 2020Seed—
#4
Funding Raised · Pero, Lombardy · founded 2018 · 7 employees$110Kraised▾
Developer of continuous fiber manufacturing technology for composite material production. The technology facilitates the creation of advanced composite parts across various industries. It offers solutions for sectors including marine, sporting goods, healthcare, energy, aerospace, construction, and transportation. The company provides material, software, and machinery related to its core technology.
- Feb 2020Grant (prize money)$55K
- Sep 2019Grant (prize money)$55K
#5
Funding Raised · Parma, Emilia Romagna · founded 2017$69Kraised▾
Prometheus is involved in developing 3D Bio-printer. The machine built in-house technology enables to express the human cells in a controlled manner and maintain them alive throughout the printing process. Their product, Ematik, which is a patented second skin to treat skin wounds of difficult healing.
- Feb 2019Grant (prize money)$57.3K
- Jun 2018Grant (prize money)$11.7K
#6
Funding Raised · Rovigo, Veneto · founded 2014 · 7 employees$28.4Kraised▾
Desamanera developed large size 3D printer to print structures with stone material. It has build voulme of 6*6*6m, it uses stone and binder material made with natural and eco-friendly material. they also provide MarmoLiquido, natural surface finishing that characterize any surface with real marble. With this user can choose different colors and patterns for surfaces. It works with their 3D print surfaces and other normal surfaces also.
- Mar 2017Grant (prize money)$28.4K
#7
Seed · Modena, Emilia Romagna · founded 2011 · 7 employees—raised▾
CRP Technology is a company that manufactures materials that are used in the 3D printing industry. These are special powder materials useful for the 3D printed products used in Motorsports, Space, UAV, Automotive, Entertainment and Medical areas. These powder materials are called Windform materials. There are various categories of materials under Windform. Each of these materials is manufactured for a specific product with a set of properties.
#8
Seed · Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna · founded 2016 · 7 employees—raised▾
Mat3D is a manufacturer of polymeric materials for 3D printing. The products are polymer-based nanocomposites. It offers universal resins for commercial 3D printers and advanced resins that are filled with nanoparticles to increase electrical, mechanical and antibacterial material properties.
- Aug 2019Seed—
#9
Seed · Roncade, Veneto · founded 2014 · 2 employees—raised▾
Lumi Industries developed a semi-professional DLP 3D printer that is able to create objects with high precision, providing a resolution up to 37µm on XY Axis and 50µm on the z-Axis. With a printing area of 10 cm in diameter and 10 cm in height, Lumipocket Pro can be used in many different fields: from jewellery to dentistry, from hobbyist to miniatures, from scientific research to leisure. They also provide along an intuitive and easy to use slicing software and the printer costs around $1285. They launched their printer LumiPocket LT on kickstarter and were successful in raising $66k.
#10
Deadpooled · Roncade, Veneto · founded 2013 · 4 employees—raised▾
Makoo is an online platform that lets users materialize emtions and words into exclusive jewels. All the users need to do is select the type of jewel/ornnament they want to create and record a short message in their voice. The voice and words dictate the design of the object which may include bracelets, rings, tie clips, cufflinks, etc. The platform allows users to change the thickness, height and torsion of the jewel and virtually try it on. Users can also embed a QR code that records information related to their message. Once the object shape is defined, it is then created via a 3D printer.
- 2014Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of 3D Printing coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Additive Manufacturing / 3D Printing is moving in Italy
A read on the academic research around Additive Manufacturing / 3D Printing — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 1,661 Italy-affiliated papers.
- Politecnico di Milano163
- Politecnico di Torino145
- University of Bologna102
- University of Naples Federico II93
- National Research Council91
- Fabrication6→43
- Composite material4→32
- Extrusion1→25
- Nanotechnology7→28
- 3d printed5→25
- Composite material5→136
- Fabrication6→104
- 3d printed2→86
- Fused deposition modeling6→80
- Extrusion6→75
- Fabrication1→11
- Nanotechnology1→11
- Composite material2→12
- Selective laser melting5→15
- Manufacturing engineering3→12
Where additive manufacturing is researched across Italy
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.