Diamond Foundry

Diamond Foundry is a producer of manmade diamonds in San Francisco, California.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Diamond Foundry
Private
IndustryDiamonds
Founded2012[1]
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
United States
ProductsManmade diamonds
Number of employees
120[1]
Websitewww.diamondfoundry.com

Investors

Diamond Foundry was founded in 2012 by Martin Roscheisen and Jeremy Scholz.[1] The company has raised about $100 million in funding from various investors, including the Sun Microsystems and Google founding investor Andy Bechtolsheim, iPod co-creator Tony Fadell, eBay founding president Jeff Skoll, Twitter founder Evan Williams, Facebook co-founder Andrew McCollum, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, and businessman Jean Pigozzi.[2][8]

Technology

The company developed five generations of plasma reactor designs using software simulations of plasma physics to develop its technology for managing a high-density plasma for diamond growth at extremely high temperatures.[9]

As contrasted with diamond simulants (which are non-diamond material that appears similar to diamond) and natural mined diamonds, synthetic diamonds are actual diamonds that are produced by a manufacturing process. The company "grows" diamond using the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method, by placing a small piece of natural diamond in a plasma reactor for a period of about two weeks. The resulting man-made diamond is essentially identical to natural diamond (atomically, molecularly, chemically, visually, in terms of hardness, optical brilliance, crystalline structure, etc.) but without the resource intensiveness, hazards, and environmental concerns that occur with diamond mining.[10]

Awards and recognitions
  • #45 of "World's 50 Most Innovative Companies"[11] and #2 in the Style category in 2018, by Fast Company[12]
  • #33 of "Disruptor 50 Companies" in 2016, by CNBC[13]
  • "Disruptive 25" in 2016, by Inc. Magazine[14]
  • "25 hottest startups that launched in 2015", by Business Insider[15]

References
  1. "Diamond Foundry". Inc. Magazine. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
  2. Shontell, Alyson (November 11, 2015). "10 billionaires and Leonardo DiCaprio invested in a startup that claims it can grow hundreds of real diamonds in two weeks". Business Insider. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
  3. Creeden, Molly (May 20, 2016). "Can These Silicon Valley Lab-Grown Diamonds Change the Way We Say 'I Do'?". Vogue. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  4. Welch, Liz (April 17, 2017). "This Startup Has Raised $100 Million to Sell You Lab-Grown Diamonds". Inc. Magazine. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  5. Segren, Elizabeth (April 29, 2017). "This Startup's Plasma Reactors Create Conflict-Free Diamonds For The Millennial Market". Fast Company. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  6. Sherman, Lauren (March 6, 2017). "Will Lab-Grown Stones Save or Sink the Troubled Diamond Market?". The Business of Fashion. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  7. Farra, Emily (January 12, 2017). "This Is Your New Source for Conflict-Free, Ethical (And Gorgeous!) Engagement Rings". Vogue. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  8. Pettitt, Jeniece (December 15, 2015). "Diamond Foundry makes high-end diamonds in a lab". CNBC. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  9. "Borrowing From Solar and Chip Tech to Make Diamonds". The New York Times. November 12, 2015. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
  10. "Company claims it can 'grow' diamonds in a lab". Fox News. November 11, 2015. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
  11. "The World's Most Innovative Companies 2018". Fast Company. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
  12. "The World's Most Innovative Companies 2018: Honorees by Sector: Style". Fast Company. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
  13. "Meet the 2016 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies". CNBC. June 7, 2016. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
  14. "The 25 Most Disruptive Companies of the Year". Inc. Magazine. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
  15. Carson, Biz; Kosoff, Maya (December 10, 2015). "The 25 hottest startups that launched in 2015". Business Insider. Retrieved 2018-11-20.

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