Voovo Meets Growing Demand for 3D Printing with Crowdsourcing Platform

 
TORONTO - March 5, 2015 - PRLog -- For release March 5th 2015

Media Contact: Chris Gray – C-289-828-1752  E- chris@voovo.co

Toronto, Canada, March 5th, 2015 – Toronto-based startup Voovo (http://www.voovo.co/) is aiming to solve one of the biggest problems facing the 3D printing industry today — most people don’t own 3D printers. Although there are over 10 million designs available online for printing, each design requires the customer to have access to one of these costly devices. With only slightly over 100,000 3D printers sold in 2014, creating a customized model was still out of reach for the average individual, until now.

Voovo allows customers requiring 3D printed models to quickly crowdsource job quotes from a community of passionate 3D printer owners. Job quotes are submitted in a reverse-auction style format to guarantee competitive pricing for the job poster. The platform also enables anyone who has a 3D printer to become a full-service 3D printing studio that can personalize, print, and ship models around the world. Voovo can be used for rapid prototyping or creating physical models of your own CAD files. Alternatively, it can also be used as a printing service for 3D designs found on websites like Thingiverse, TurboSquid, or on Voovo’s own free marketplace.

To begin this process, customers upload the design files they want printed with a brief description outlining their desired customization. Print shops can immediately begin to submit quotes based on the user’s specific request, and can even view the pricing submitted by other print shops. At the close of the auction, customers select the print shop with the lowest pricing, most attractive location, or highest star rating, and will get the model delivered right to their door.

“Professional 3D printing studios are extremely skilled and technically advanced, and can therefore justify charging higher rates. But, not all 3D printing jobs require the same level of skill and attention to detail. Often enough professional printers don’t want the same type of jobs that can be done on a household 3D printer,” states cofounder Chris Gray. “With our 3D printing service (http://voovo.co/auctions/) auction platform we source 3D printing quotes from around the world to find our users the perfect match for their job type. Then, we leave it up to them to decide what is most important: price, quality, or printer rating.

“We started Voovo for two reasons — the first was to connect people who have 3D printers with people who are willing to pay a fair price for a 3D printed item,” says cofounder Phillip Raffi. “The second was to help individuals make money by using their 3D printers.  After a few months of using our auction, an active user can recover most of what they spent on their 3D printer. We see Voovo as a convenient and cost effective way for even the least tech-savvy people to get involved with 3D printing.”

Working out of the Digital Media Zone incubator at Ryerson University in Toronto, the Voovo team will be pushing to onboard 5,000 3D print shops and host more than 10,000 auctions worldwide in 2015.

About Voovo

Based at the Digital Media Zone at Ryerson University, Voovo is a Toronto-based startup that emerged from Ryerson’s Masters in Digital Media program. For more information, please visit www.voovo.co.

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