The design industry is broken. It’s too difficult and costly for talented designers to bring their own ideas to market. So we end up with furniture products that are either too commoditized or too pricey.
Gantri’s goal is to build a new way for designers to easily turn great concepts into amazing products, in turn making design radically more accessible for everyone.
The main reason why developing new designs is so costly today is manufacturing. Industrial manufacturing incurs high upfront tooling and inventory costs - great for large-volume production but not great for making smaller-batch furniture designs.
Gantri developed a completely new digital manufacturing process based on 3D printing. This process requires no tooling or inventories, making it much easier for designers to bring new ideas to market. We then partner up with world’s best designers, helping them create amazing designs that are made using this process and selling the designs directly to consumers online. This new approach gives design lovers easy access to great designs at affordable prices.
All of our products are digitally manufactured from our factory in San Leandro, California. Our factory is currently the world’s largest 3D print farm with over 1,000 3D printers.
We develop all the technologies that allows us to create, manufacture and sell our products - including machinery, materials and software. We have a patent pending for our entire process.
On the software side, there are 3 main products
1. Admin. Our manufacturing workflow software that drives our daily operations by guiding each worker on their tasks so we can complete orders and ship them to customers. This includes assigning jobs to every 3D printer, tracking their statuses, managing inventories and more. Built in React.
2. Create Hub. Our designer portal that allows them to submit new designs, chat with our engineers, see all the orders and track how many products they’re selling. Built in AngularJS.
3. Marketplace. Our consumer-facing website that allows people to discover designers and products, and purchase them easily. Customers can track live production status directly from their dashboard. Built in NextJS.
Since launching lighting, our first category in 2017, we have collaborated with some of the world’s best designers, studios and bands - including Ammunition, Dims and Muka Design Lab. With many more in the pipeline.
We’re the winner of Time’s Best Inventions 2020, Fast Company’s Most Innovative in Design 2020, Gear Patrol’s Top 100 Products of 2020, Architectural Digest’s Cleverest Awards 2020 and many other awards.
We’ve also been selected as one of World’s Most Innovative Manufacturers by Fast Company in 2021, ahead of all other 3D printing companies in the world.
We're a design and engineering driven organization that puts a huge emphasis on personal growth, culture and diversity. We push and support every member of the Gantri team to grow and excel every day through weekly sprints, monthly 1-on-1 and bi-annual performance reviews.