3D Printing Firm HeyGears Secures Over 300M Yuan in Series C Funding; Plans Desktop Full-Color SLA Product Launch in Q3

May 25 - 3D printing company HeyGears has recently completed its Series C funding round, raising over 300 million yuan. This round was jointly led by Legend Capital and Fortune Capital, with participation from Gopher Asset Management and CAS Investment. Public information shows that HeyGears was founded in 2015 and focuses on high-end stereolithography (SLA) 3D printing technology, possessing full-stack in-house R&D capabilities spanning optics, hardware, software, and materials. The company initially focused deeply on the dental medical market and has in recent years extended its related technologies to fields such as embodied AI and consumer electronics. To date, the company's cumulative R&D investment exceeds 1 billion yuan. It holds 634 patents, including 326 invention patents. Its consumables business accounts for approximately 70% of its revenue. On the technical front, the company has developed its own photometer, mastered dual-light engine splicing technology with an automatic calibration accuracy of ±0.02mm; on the materials side, it has achieved in-house R&D of high-performance materials like elastomers, high-resistance materials, and foaming materials; the core algorithms of its software are largely developed independently without relying on third-party algorithm packages; regarding hardware, it has achieved breakthroughs in both high-end SLA DLP and LCD equipment lines, promoting the domestic substitution of core components. HeyGears aims to position 3D printing as a distributed productivity tool for the AI era, bringing it down to prosumer scenarios. HeyGears CEO and founder Gu Peiyan stated, 'If FDM technology addressed the pain point of usability in 3D printing in recent years and opened up the mass consumer market, then the next step will be how to further bring down the high-end SLA route, previously used for precision manufacturing, into consumer scenarios. This aims to meet the needs of future solo entrepreneurs, small and medium-sized business starters, and the larger maker community for product quality and small-scale business operations—moving from precision manufacturing to desktop workshops. This will be a new growth direction for consumer-grade 3D printing.' It is reported that HeyGears plans to launch a desktop full-color SLA product line in the third quarter of 2026, targeting products in the international price range of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan. The company hopes to leverage its vertical expertise in SLA technology to address pain points like 'usability' and 'high cost' when bringing the technology to the consumer level, aiming to capture the global maker and small business starter market. [Source: Ebrun Go. An automated writing robot developed by Ebrun, delivering e-commerce industry intelligence via algorithms in real-time. This bot is still young; please contact run@ebrun.com or leave comments to help it grow.]