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Hummink Raises €15 Million to Bring Nanoprinting From Lab to Fab

Investors are financing factory-ready tools that promise sub‑micron defect repair.

Overview

  • The €15 million round was co-led by KBC Focus Fund, Cap Horn and Bpifrance, with Elaia Partners, Sensinnovat, Beeyond, the French Tech Seed fund under France 2030, and the European Innovation Council Fund participating.
  • Hummink’s High-Precision Capillary Printing uses an ink-based, sub‑micron “smallest fountain pen” approach to deposit metals and functional materials for precise defect repair.
  • Proceeds will fund an industrial printing module, integration into semiconductor and OLED display fabs, expansion in Asia and the U.S., workforce doubling by 2026, and scaling of proprietary conductive inks.
  • The NAZCA demonstrator is already in labs across Europe, Asia and the United States, including Duke University work published in Nature Electronics on recyclable sub‑micrometre printed electronics.
  • Targeting OLED lines that reportedly discard up to 30% of output, the company says its tools could raise yields by around 10% and cut costly waste.