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KindDesigns is protecting land & marine life with 3D printers.
"KindDesigns is protecting land and marine life with 3D printers."
3D printed sea walls that have environmental benefits.
"3D printed sea walls that have environmental benefits."
Kind Designs Secures $5M to Innovate Against Rising Seas
They are backing Kind Designs’ mission to create Living Seawalls that mimic natural coral reefs and mangroves, turning the tide against sea-level rise and ecosystem decay.
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Kind Designs’ 3D printed seawall is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.
Kind Designs’ 3D printed seawall is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.
This start up hopes to combat climate change with a 3D Printer.
"This start up hopes to combat climate change with 3D Printer."
Reinventing the South Florida seawall to help marine life, buffer rising seas
The new and approved seawall is on the market, Freeman is ready to scale the operation.
Kind Designs Raises Seed Funding
Kind Designs is a climate-tech startup that uses sustainable materials, and patent-pending 3D printing technology to produce 3D-printed Living Seawalls.
Meet the entrepreneurs developing Living Seawalls to help combat rising sea levels, shaping the climate-tech space
Kind Designs is one of these firms. It has developed a process for 3D printing seawalls more cheaply, quickly, and flexibly than traditional methods, through its Living Seawalls product.
Can a seawall off a printer help with sea-level rise and rehabilitate the local ecosystem?
A Miami-based climate-tech startup producing eco-friendly, 3D-printed seawalls to protect coastal communities from rising sea-levels, is now installing its first seawall in Miami Beach.
Kind Designs Talks Coastal Sustainability With 3D Printed Living Seawalls
Miami-based tech company Kind Designs has pioneered a groundbreaking approach by utilizing 3D printing to address both challenges at once.
Florida’s next economic boom: Ocean takes stage for state’s new business strategy
Florida has long boomed economically from three revenue sources — farming, real estate, tourism. Now, local leaders would like to add the ocean to that list.
3D Printed Seawalls: Eco-Friendly Erosion Control
Merging structural necessity with environmental correctness is at minimum a challenge and at worst impossible. The world’s first 3D-printed Living Seawalls™️, by Kind Designs, is a perfect solution, as it aims to protect shorelines while creating habitat.
Commissioner Kevin Marino Cabrera Champions Innovation to Protect Miami’s Shore
Commissioner Kevin Marino Cabrera is reducing regulations to protect Miami-Dade’s coastline and foster innovation.
How communities are reinforcing coastlines against storms - CBS News
This year's hurricane season has left coastal communities reeling from catastrophic storm surge and flooding. Now, businesses and governments are focusing on innovative ways to protect their coasts while also sustaining marine life.
Kind Designs raises $5M to scale its 3D-printed Living Seawalls, with Mark Cuban returning as an investor
In a quiet corner of Miami, robots have been humming away, printing pieces of what could be the future of coastal infrastructure. And what they’re building… it’s alive.
Tamiami Angel Funds invests in climate tech firm
Angel investors from the Naples-based Tamiami Family of Angel Funds invested an additional $1.05 million in Kind Designs, a South Florida-based climate-tech company that manufactures environmentally friendly Living Seawalls to protect coastal communities from rising sea levels.
Tamiami Angel Funds invests $200,000 in Kind Designs
Tamiami Angel Funds has made a second investment in Kind Designs, contributing an additional $200,000 to support the Florida-based climate-tech company’s mission of protecting coastal communities through sustainable innovation. This latest contribution brings the total investment from Southwest Florida angel investors to $400,000.
MIAMI’S INNOVATIVE SOLUTION TO COASTAL EROSION
In Miami Beach, startup Kind Designs is combating coastal erosion and flooding with living seawalls created through advanced 3D printing technology. Founded by entrepreneur Anya Freeman, the company uses eco-friendly materials to enhance marine biodiversity and protect shorelines, attracting significant investment and government contracts.
Kind Designs raises additional $5m to advance 3D printed seawalls
Kind Designs, a Miami-based startup working to 3D print the World’s first 'living seawalls', has raised 5 million USD in its latest funding round to further its mission.
Mark Cuban Doubles Down, Kind Designs Closes Seed 1 Round Led by Overlay Capital at $30M Valuation
Kind Designs, the Miami-based startup 3D-Printing the World’s first Living Seawalls™, announced the closing of its Seed 1 funding round, led by Overlay Capital with participation from strategic investors.
Naples investor puts $1.05 million into 3D-printed seawall manufacturer
Naples-based Tamiami Angel Funds has invested $1.05 million in a Miami environmental technology company that's designing and building 3D printed seawalls.
'The Visioneers': FL innovators lead climate solutions in new CBS series
I've got to get my head around this and try to come up with a solution, and she's come up with these seawalls that are now protecting Florida.
Anya Freeman on her quest to protect communities from flooding
Learn how the former attorney's career pivot led to the creation of a startup that's reimagining traditional seawalls with environmentally friendly, 3D-printed alternatives in our latest Executive Profile.
Kind Designs secures $5M to scale sustainable seawalls
Kind Designs is ramping up production to meet soaring demand. The company is currently pursuing $180 million in government contracts while also expanding its residential and commercial projects.
3D printed living seawall firm receives $175K NAVSEA grant
Kind Designs, a Miami-based company, is leveraging robotic 3D printing to make seawalls and other shoreline structures, and has received a substantial grant from the U.S. Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA).
Bridging academia and industry to accelerate environmental solutions
Coastal protection Kind Design, a Miami-based startup, is revolutionizing coastal construction with 3D-printing technology.
Innovative South Florida startup building new seawalls that are also eco-friendly
The impacts of climate change are being felt worldwide, from the devastating wildfires out west to the more powerful hurricanes we saw ravage the Gulf Coast over the summer, but here at home a local tech startup has launched a powerful new weapon to help us become more resilient.
Reinventing the South Florida seawall to help marine life, buffer rising seas
In the back of a million-dollar mansion under construction in Miami Beach, contractors are installing what may be the future first line of coastal defense from erosion and climate-driven sea-rise.
The U.S. Navy is interested in this Miami company's 3D-printed seawalls
Kind designs receives a $175,000 grant from the U.S. Navy for seawall research. The company uses 3D printing to create eco-friendly, long-lasting seawalls.
Kind Designs uses huge 3D printer to make eco-friendly seawalls
Kind Designs has a lofty goal: To help coastal cities ward off flooding caused by sea level rise in a way that does not cause harm to marine life.
Reinventing the South Florida seawall to help marine life, buffer rising seas
The new and approved seawall is on the market, Freeman is ready to scale the operation.
This Week in South Florida: Anya Freeman
Giant slabs of living sea walls are being submerged into South Florida waters.
Kind Designs uses CyBe technology to 3D print ‘Living Seawalls’
Miami-based climate-tech startup, Kind Designs, is leveraging 3D concrete printing technology from CyBe as a faster, cheaper, and more sustainable construction method to produce ‘Living Seawalls’.
Kind Designs Has a Smart Solution for the Seawall
By 3D-printing “living seawalls” that mimic coral reefs, the South Florida startup produces structures more quickly and cheaply than traditional methods—a crucial advantage as the region grapples with the threat of rising sea levels.
Innovative Design and ‘Living Seawalls’ Can Improve an Imperfect Solution
Seawalls are an imperfect barrier, but innovative design can mitigate their downsides.