Geomagic Named to dbusiness.com's Top 50
List recognizes “hot growth companies worth watching.”
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., February 9, 2000 - dbusiness.com, an online business news and information source covering 14 metropolitan U.S. markets, announced today that Geomagic, Inc. has been named to its North Carolina list of Top 50 Companies. According to the dbusiness.com news release, “The db 50 honors those companies that have defined new standards, attracted significant venture capital investment, forged the most influential business models, and developed products and services that will change business.”
“Being selected to the list is confirmation that our vision of 3D for e-business is getting people's attention,” said Geomagic CEO Jon Fjeld. “To make the list after one year in North Carolina lets us know we're on the right track.”
The company was founded in 1996 in Illinois and moved to Research Triangle Park, N.C. in 1999. Since then, Geomagic has become a technology leader in three-dimensional (3D) computer imaging for design and manufacturing. The company is currently developing solutions based on their patented technology that will bring 3D to Internet-based communication and e-commerce for business-to-business and business-to-consumer markets.
Geomagic is a software company dedicated to removing the barriers between the physical and digital worlds, and ultimately to changing the way we think and communicate in 3D. From mass customization of consumer products to 3D-enabled web marketing, from replacement of physical inventories by digital inventories to reproduction on demand of human bones or teeth, the 3D information technology pioneered by Geomagic has the potential to touch—and improve—nearly every facet of human life. Starting with the landmark computational geometry of co-founder Herbert Edelsbrunner, the company has developed a powerful enabling technology that provides Digital DuplicationTM solutions for design and manufacturing today, and a 3D foundation for the future. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Research Triangle Park, NC.
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