H3D Secures Series A Funding to Expand its AI Manufacturing Technology across Dental and Hearing Care
H3D Secures Series A Funding to Expand its AI Manufacturing Technology across Dental and Hearing Care
Led by Significant Ventures, the investment will strengthen H3D’s leading position in the hearing industry and accelerate the global rollout of its breakthrough dental technology.
Melbourne, Australia — 16 September 2025 — H3D, a leader in AI-powered CAD/CAM technology, today announced the close of a $5.8m Series A funding round. The investment was led by Significant Ventures, with participation from other existing investors, including H3D’s initial backer, Swinburne University, and new investor Co:Act Capital.
H3D originated at Swinburne University, where its co-founder and CTO, Dr. Philip Kinsella, developed a fully automated design technology that has swiftly made the company a global leader in the hearing industry. As the technology evolved, its potential for the dental industry became clear, prompting a strategic expansion beyond audio products.
With the Series A funding, H3D will accelerate the deployment of its technology into dental labs globally, addressing the existing industry bottlenecks caused by a lack of technicians, reliance on complex manual CAD software, and quality inconsistency due to human error. Currently, dental technicians can only process one case at a time, with complex cases taking up to 30 minutes to complete. With H3D’s AI CAD technology, labs will be able to batch process hundreds of cases in parallel in only a few minutes. Targeting an acceptance rate of >95%, H3D will also enable labs to reach new levels of product consistency. Together, these advances will allow dental labs to meet growing consumer demand efficiently while improving the end-user experience.
In addition to accelerating its dental business, the investment will enable H3D to further strengthen its leading position within the hearing industry, where its technology is already trusted by manufacturers and labs worldwide to produce their hearing aids, noise protection, and custom-fit music earphones. H3D continues to innovate within its audio capabilities and has recently launched a unique mobile phone scanning solution that utilises cutting-edge computer vision, AI, and AR technologies to capture an accurate 3D ear scan using just a smartphone camera. This innovation enables brands to deliver custom-fit products to their consumers worldwide without the need for traditional ear impressions.
“This funding marks a pivotal step in meeting the future vision of AI digital manufacturing,” said Iain McLeod, CEO of H3D. “Combining machine learning, advanced 3D algorithms and real-time cloud processing into a seamless manufacturing solution will be hugely impactful to patients receiving dental and hearing care. We are extremely grateful to our investors and our customers for believing in H3D’s exceptional team and our mission.”
Michele Troni, Significant Ventures’ Partner and H3D’s Board Director, commented: “As an early investor, SV is pleased to have supported the company’s growth to a point where, having achieved commercial success in the hearing market, it has become ideally positioned to disrupt the larger dental industry. We are proud of the traction Iain, Phil, and the team have achieved, and we are happy to lead this expansion funding round. We look forward to supporting the company in this exciting next stage of growth.”
Kate Eriksson, Partner at Co:Act Capital, said: “H3D brings together vision and world-class technology to deliver real value for customers in two fast-growing global markets — hearing and dental. We’re delighted to support the H3D team and the impact they’re delivering.”
About H3D
H3D is a global AI technology company specialising in bringing custom fit to the mass market with its AI-powered CAD solutions, mobile 3D scanning technology and cloud-based integration. Its goal is to allow brands and manufacturers to scale high-volume custom-fit products to consumers and patients worldwide. For more information, visit https://h3d.ai/
About Significant Ventures
Significant Ventures (SV) champions Australian-originated critical technology innovation. Leveraging two decades of venture capital experience by the Hindmarsh family in Canberra, SV is uniquely positioned to back breakthrough innovative companies across Australia. The fund works alongside some of Australia’s largest research institutions, sources of innovation, and peer funds to cooperate and help attract the human, financial and intellectual capital needed to build the next generation of high-value companies, capabilities, and industries. For more information, visit https://significant.vc/.
About Co:Act
Co:Act Capital is an Australian venture capital firm focused on supporting ambitious founders at the Series A stage. Co:Act is backed by a network of experienced operators and investors, and works closely with entrepreneurs to accelerate growth, scale, teams, technologies and go-to-market strategies to win globally. For more information, visit www.coact.vc.
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