Dutch 3D printing company to acquire Link3D

LAFAYETTE — Materialise NV, a Dutch 3D printing company, has agreed to acquire Link3D Inc., a Lafayette-based manufacturing workflow management software company.

Link3D was a portfolio company of venture-capital firm AI Capital, which held its investment for a little more than a year.

“The planned Link3D exit is a validation of AI Capital’s investment focus on applied AI software companies that focus on the digitization of society and business,” AI Capital managing partner Neville Teagarden said in a prepared statement.

Terms of the sale were not disclosed. 

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