Lumafield Announces $35M Series B Funding

Lumafield announced it has closed a $35M Series B funding round from new and existing investors, achieved a major new AI-driven performance breakthrough, and appointed two prominent executives to its board of directors.

Lumafield automated scanning setup

The company has raised a total of $67.5M to date, including a combined $32.5M in its Seed and Series A funding rounds. Spark Capital led the Series B round, which also included participation from existing investors Lux Capital, Kleiner Perkins, DCVC, and Future Shape.

Neptune scanner, robotic arm, and engineer

Lumafield also announced the appointment of Victoria Holt and Santo Politi to the company’s Board of Directors. Ms. Holt was previously CEO of Protolabs and is a member of the boards of directors of Waste Management, A.O. Smith, and Piper Sandler. Mr. Politi is founder and General Partner of Spark Capital, where his investments have included Oculus, Twitter, Wayfair, and Plaid.

Faster, AI-driven scans bring CT to the factory floor

When Lumafield emerged from stealth in April 2022, it offered the world’s first accessible industrial X-ray CT platform. Lumafield’s Neptune industrial CT scanner is an order of magnitude less expensive than legacy systems, and it brought this powerful technology to engineering teams that had never been able to afford industrial CT before.

Open Neptune scanner with robotic arm

Now Lumafield has made its Neptune scanner more than 300X faster, allowing it to scale from one-off scans in product development labs all the way to serial inspection in high-volume manufacturing operations.

Behind the speed increase is a significant development in artificial intelligence. CT scanners work by capturing a series of two-dimensional X-ray images from different angles, then reconstructing them into a 3D model using software.

Lumafield’s AI allows the company’s reconstruction process to achieve the same high-quality results with fewer two-dimensional X-ray images, reducing the time required to run a scan. New improvements in Lumafield’s software also make it possible to skip certain steps in the reconstruction process before performing automated analysis, which cuts processing time.

As a result, scans that previously took several hours can now run in a minute or less, finally making industrial CT a practical technology for quality assurance on factory floors. Combined with factory automation systems, Lumafield’s scanner and software can inspect products at high volume, automatically flagging problems such as dimensional inaccuracies and the presence of pores and cracks.

A demo of Lumafield’s rapid scanning technology is available this week at IMTS in Chicago. Visit Lumafield in the East Hall, Floor 3 at booth #135828 to experience the Neptune scanner and Voyager analysis software firsthand.

About Lumafield

Lumafield is a startup based in Cambridge, MA, that has developed the world’s first accessible X-Ray CT scanner for engineers. Lumafield’s easy-to-use scanner and cloud-based analysis software give engineers the ability to see their work clearly, inside and out. Lumafield’s industrial CT platform starts at less than $3,000 per month and scales from product development labs to high-volume manufacturing operations.

By offering unprecedented visibility into products, as well as AI-driven tools that highlight problems and generate quantitative data, Lumafield promises to revolutionize the way complex products are created, manufactured, and used across industries.

For more information, visit www.lumafield.com.

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