NextFlex®, America’s Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Institute, is a leading force in the Manufacturing USA network. Formed through a cooperative agreement between the US Department of Defense (DoD) and FlexTech Alliance, NextFlex is a consortium of companies, academic institutions, non-profits and state, local and federal governments with a shared goal of advancing U.S. manufacturing of FHE. Since its formation in 2015, NextFlex’s elite team of thought leaders, educators, problem solvers, and manufacturers have come together to collectively facilitate innovation, narrow the manufacturing workforce gap, and promote sustainable manufacturing ecosystems.
Location: United States, California, San Jose
Employees: 51-200
Phone: +1 408-797-2244
Total raised: $39.5M
Founded date: 2015
Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 31.03.2022 | - | $17M | - |
| 09.01.2020 | - | $12M | - |
| 10.06.2019 | - | $10.5M | - |
Mentions in press and media 9
| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.01.2023 | America Makes announces ‘DoD Point of Need Manufacturing Challenge’ project call | US additive manufacturing accelerator America Makes in collaboration with OSD ManTech and Manufacturing Innovation Institutes has launched a project call. The budget for the project call is up to $1.5 million to bankroll initiatives falling... |
| 07.12.2022 | Hermeus passes new hypersonic testing milestone with 3D printed Mach-5 Chimera engine | The 3D Printing Industry Awards 2022 shortlists are now available for voting. Who will win the 2022 3DPI Awards? Have your say by casting your vote now. US aerospace start-up Hermeus has passed a new hypersonic testing landmark with the par... |
| 31.03.2022 | NextFlex Announces Over $17 Million in Funding for Flexible Hybrid Electronics Innovations in Harsh Environment Reliability, Printing of Conformal Circuits, and Low Cost 5G Antennas | Projects include additive packaging of RF components for hypersonics applications, wearable sensor systems for factory settings to improve safety for human-robot interactions, and non-planar hybrid electronic 3D packaging approaches for mic... |
| 30.03.2022 | NextFlex awards $17M in electronics R&D funding, Hypersonix gets backing for new hypersonic UAV | Engineers in the US and Australia have gained a significant amount of funding to further their research into novel aerospace and electronics 3D printing applications. Over in Australia, Hypersonix Launch Systems has been awarded $2.95 milli... |
| 10.06.2020 | NextFlex secures seven years of funding, up to $154M, from Air Force Research Laboratory and OSD to fuel electronics innovation for manufacturing and military purposes | Early this year, we wrote about NextFlex, after the consortium announced $12M in funding to promote the adoption of Flexible Hybrid Electronics and development in the US advanced manufacturing industry. NextFlex is a consortium of companies... |
| 09.01.2020 | NextFlex announces $12M in funding to promote the adoption of Flexible Hybrid Electronics and development in the US advanced manufacturing industry | NextFlex, a consortium of companies, academic institutions, non-profits and state, local and federal government partners with the shared goal of advancing the manufacture of flexible hybrid electronics in the U.S., in collaboration with Ame... |
| 14.08.2018 | 3D Printing News Sliced, $11M project call, SLM Solutions, Aconity3D, Onshape | This edition of our 3D printing news digest Sliced features an $11 million funding pool for flexible electronics; metal 3D printing’s expansion in the U.S.; life-changing fundraising for 3D bioprinters; mind-boggling 3D printed ceramics and... |
| 27.07.2018 | Flexible electronics are the key to a human ‘check engine’ light | You probably know more about the health of your car than you know about your own health. When your car needs an oil change or a part is malfunctioning, embedded computers instantly let you know there is an issue. A similar “check engine” li... |
| 04.09.2016 | Developing Ultrathin Flexible Circuit Boards will Support Apple's More Radical iPhone Form Factors Categories Search | The 2017 anniversary iPhone has been rumored to include a glass embodiment with curved edges. Patently Apple posted a report late last month titled "The Joke of the Week: Apple is going to Copy Samsung's Edge Smartphone Design," w... |