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Innovance Inc. makes the last step count
A 3D printer can make a dental framework. Someone still has to finish it. Inside the employee-owned manufacturing group that works on the problems progress leaves behind.
Daryl Lim
Daryl Lim is the co-founder and CEO of Augmentus, a no-code robotics company that lets factory operators program industrial robots by 3D-scanning a part instead of writing code or CAD. Founded in Singapore in 2019 and now US-headquartered near Austin, Texas, Augmentus targets surface finishing, sanding, welding and spray coating for high-mix manufacturing. A serial entrepreneur since his teens, Lim was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2022 and has raised roughly $16-17M across seed and Series A rounds, including an $11M round in July 2025.
Augmentus
Augmentus is a Singapore- and Texas-based robotics software company that makes industrial robots as easy to program as a smartphone. Its no-code platform pairs industrial 3D scanning, AI-driven path planning and adaptive motion control to auto-generate robot programs for surface finishing, welding, shot peening and material removal - turning weeks of manual programming into minutes. Founded in 2019, it sells a B2B software licensing product used at 50+ production sites across aerospace, heavy industry and energy in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.