BeeHex, Inc.
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| Private | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Founded 📆 | January, 2016 |
| Founders 👔 | Anjan Contractor (Co-founder) Jordan French (Co-founder) Chintan Kanuga (Co-Founder) Ben Feltner (Co-founder) |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Columbus, Ohio |
Area served 🗺️ | International |
| Products 📟 | Industrial food processing equipment, 3D printing robots[1] |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 9 |
| 🌐 Website | beehex |
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BeeHex is a Columbus, Ohio headquartered[2] business-to-business company that specializes in 3D food printing cofounded by engineers Anjan Contractor, Jordan French, Chintan Kanuga and attorney Ben Feltner.[3][4]
Background
In 2013, BeeHex cofounder Anjan Contractor was awarded a NASA grant under the Small Business Innovation Research program to help produce the world’s first 3D food printer usable in space.[5][6] Contractor applied for a grant under SBIR phase II but due to a reduction in NASA funding the 3D food printing initiative was postponed.[7] In response, Contractor recruited engineers Jordan French and Chintan Kanuga and attorney Ben Feltner in 2015 to form BeeHex, Inc. in 2016.[8]
At South by Southwest Interactive, BeeHex printers 3D printed pizza in the shape of the United States.[9] Following the exhibition producers from ABC’s Shark Tank called BeeHex to ask the company to pitch its business on the television program.[10] In April 2016, the company was accepted into Plug & Play’s start up accelerator program in Sunnyvale, California.[11]
The company introduced 3D food printing to the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in Braga, Portugal.[12]
In 2017, TechCrunch reported that BeeHex had raised a $1 million seed round led by Donatos Pizza founder Jim Grote. The company launched its first product at International Pizza Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.[13]
Products
BeeHex’s robots 3D print food using a patent-pending pneumatic system that operates as a piston to control the 3D printing of food.[14][15] The company’s 3D printing robot follows instructions from a computer-aided design to extrude food into shapes on a print bed, layer by layer and uses multiple food materials.[3][7] The BeeHex pizza printer communicates with a computer to accept input files that articulate a specific shape and recipe using pizza dough, tomato sauce, and mozzarella cheese on demand.[16][17] BeeHex engineers developed a mobile app that allows users to customize food and receive a push notification when it is ready for pick up.[18]
References
- ↑ "A Slice of the Future: What We Can Learn from Pizza Technology". Forbes. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
- ↑ "NASA-Born BeeHex Makes 3D Printed Pizza Palatable, Brings R&D Operations to Ohio". 3D Print. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "How the BeeHex Pizza 3D Printer Works". Tech Insider. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ↑ "This Robot will 3D-Print your Pizza in Minutes". Thrillist. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ↑ "The Audacious Plan to End Hunger with 3D Printed Food". QZ Magazine. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ↑ "Daily Dish: 3D Printed Pizza". The Daily Meal. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "NASA's 3D Food Printer will Make Pizza at Amusement Parks". Vice Magazine. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ↑ "A few Questions for BeeHex". 3D Print. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ↑ "Tech Tuesday: 3D Printed Food". KVUE. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ↑ "3D Printed Pizza Company in Austin: BeeHex Shark Tank Pitch". Austin Inno. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ↑ "BeeHex 3D Prints Pizza". Plug & Play. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ↑ "Cimeira 'NanoDigest' revela no INL impressão de pizzas de astronautas". Correio Dominho. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ↑ "BeeHex Cooks Up $1 Million for 3D Food Printers that Make Pizzas". TechCrunch. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- ↑ "3D Pizza Printer Heading to 'Shark Tank' Appearance; Vandy Alum is Company's CMO". Vanderbilt University Press. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ↑ "Nasa cria impressora 3D de pizza - e ela vai ser usada na Terra". Super Abril. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ↑ "Printing Your Palate". QSR Magazine. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ↑ "Company to Commercialize NASA Financed 3D Pizza Printer". US Blasting News. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ↑ "NASA Wants Astronauts to Have 3D Printed Pizza and This Startup is Building a Printer to Make It Happen". Digital Trends. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
