Diamond Foundry
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Diamonds |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California , United States |
| Products | Manmade Diamonds |
Number of employees | 200 |
| Website | www |
Diamond Foundry produces manmade diamonds in San Francisco, California.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
Overview
Diamond Foundry was founded in 2013 by Martin Roscheisen, Jeremy Scholz, and Kyle Gazay. The company "grows" diamond by placing a small piece of a natural diamond in a plasma reactor for a few weeks. The resulting manmade diamond is the same atomically as a natural diamond but without the costs, hazards, and environmental hazards with occur in diamond mining.[8]
The company has raised $100 million in funding from numerous billionaires and individuals including spokesperson Leonardo DiCaprio.[9] Investors include Google founding investor Andy Bechtolsheim, Jean Pigozzi, eBay founding President Jeff Skoll, Twitter founder Evan Williams, Facebook co-founder Andrew McCollum, and Caspian VC's Ziyavudin Magomedov.[1]
Technology
The company iterated five generations of plasma reactor designs using tens of thousands software simulations of plasma physics, resulting in its current technology that is capable of stably managing a much higher density plasma for diamond growth at very high temperatures.[10]
References
- ^ a b "Business Insider: 10 billionaires and Leonardo DiCaprio invest in a diamond company". Business Insider.
- ^ "Can These Silicon Valley Lab-Grown Diamonds Change the Way We Say "I Do"?". Vogue. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
- ^ "This Startup Has Raised $100 Million to Sell You Lab-Grown Diamonds". Inc.com. 2017-04-17. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
- ^ "This Startup's Plasma Reactors Create Conflict-Free Diamonds For The Millennial Market". Fast Company. 2017-04-29. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
- ^ "Subscribe to read". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
{{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help) - ^ "Will Lab-Grown Stones Save or Sink the Troubled Diamond Market?". The Business of Fashion. 2017-03-06. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
- ^ "This Is Your New Source for Conflict-Free, Ethical (And Gorgeous!) Engagement Rings". Vogue. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
- ^ "Company claims it can 'grow' diamonds in a lab". Fox News.
- ^ Pettitt, Jeniece (2015-12-15). "Leo DiCaprio invested in this unlikely Silicon Valley start-up". CNBC. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
- ^ "Borrowing From Solar and Chip Tech to Make Diamonds". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
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