Fyous, the pioneer of ‘polymorphic manufacturing’, has launched a £1.5m equity crowdfunding round to advance and expand its shape-shifting tooling technologies. The funding round, which is now open on
Crowdcube, builds on a £1.3 million raise from angel investors in 2025, and allows a wider range of investors to own a stake in Fyous at a £25 million valuation.
Fyous, which has a waiting list of manufacturers for its machines in the footwear and dental sectors and has already received expressions of interest to join this round worth £724,000, has developed a new, patent-pending method for producing manufacturing tooling to support rapid prototyping and affordable production of mass-customised products. It replaces fixed tooling with machines featuring tens of thousands of digitally controlled pins that reconfigure in minutes to create temporary injection moulds, forming tools and workholding fixtures.
Fyous’ technology has already been used to produce polymorphic forming tools and workholding fixtures, including a project with the
University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre. The company is now building its first polymorphic moulding machine with
Peacocks Medical Group, the UK’s largest independent orthotics company. Funds from this campaign will support the development of Fyous’ technologies for dental aligner production, accelerating its entry into a market valued at $9.9bn in 2024.
Fyous was founded in 2020 by Joshua Shires, founder and former chief technology officer at technology accessories manufacturer Mous, and Thomas Bloomfield, previously an engineer at
MetLase, an industrial machinery joint venture between
Rolls-Royce and
Unipart. Fyous has raised £3.2 million to date, with backing from
Innovate UK and Scott Crump, former chairman of NASDAQ-listed AM company
Stratasys and inventor of Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM), the world’s most widely used 3-D printing technology.
Mr Shires, said: “Apple put a thousand songs in your pocket with the iPod, and Fyous is putting a million moulds on your desktop with polymorphic manufacturing. We believe this could be the next 3-D printing process. This is a new production category that transforms CAD files into temporary tooling for faster product development and affordable mass customisation. Fyous addresses the bottlenecks that hamper injection moulding and industrial-scale 3-D printing, and has the potential to lower costs, increase capacity, and reduce waste in multiple industries.”