When the team behind Mosaic Manufacturing Ltd. sought out angel investors in 2015, they had little more than a good idea and a prototype – which, says co-founder Chris Labelle, would work "sometimes, for a little while.”
But their idea was a potential knockout. At the time, inexpensive 3-D printers could produce only one kind of material, in one colour. Multi-colour, multi-material printers cost upward of $50,000. But Mosaic had a device that could produce complicated, colourful objects at a fraction of the cost by combining multiple types of filament into one, to be run through any 3-D printer.
Image: The co-founders of Mosaic Manufacturing are, left to right, Derek Vogt, chief technology officer, Mitch Debora, chief executive officer, and Chris Labelle, chief operating officer. HANDOUT
