Anker’s dream of 3D printing may have been broken, but Wang Zhiyu’s has just started.
Not long ago, Anker Innovation announced a strategic adjustment to its 3D printing activity. Ankermake’s 3D 3D printing sub-marks has been officially renowned Eufymake, and has been integrated into the Smart Home brand in Inker Eufy System. This change also means that Anker has retired from the gradually independent 3D printing market.
Shortly after, Wang Zhiyu, the base chief who was responsible for the entire ankerake process of the project establishment at the implementation, chose to resign from Anker and embark on the path of independent entrepreneurship.
Before officially introducing Wang Zhiyu, let’s review his achievements.
In April 2022, Wang Zhiyu led the team to launch the first 3D 3D printer consuming Anker, Ankermake M5, which focuses on high speed printing and a maximum print speed of 250 mm / s, which is almost five times faster than traditional products at that time. The product was then launched on the Kickstarter Crowdfunding platform and finally collected $ 8.88 million, which not only exceeds the Bambu Lab X1 released the same year, but still ranks first in the global classification of the amount of 3D printer financing.
Wang Zhiyu graduated from the Hunan University of Sciences and Technology, specializing in mechanical design, manufacturing and automation, and has a solid engineering foundation. During his stay at school, he mastered programming skills thanks to self-learning and participated in national software development competitions, demonstrating a strong interdisciplinary learning capacity.
After graduating, he worked in heavy industry Sany and Huawei and other companies, has embarked on the development of software and technical management for a long time and has accumulated more than 13 years of experience in complex systems architectures and engineering placement areas. This context made up of “hardware + software” also laid the foundations for him to join the anchor and be in charge of 3D printing activities.
According to people familiar with the issue, the main team of Wang Zhiyu formed by this entrepreneurship has around 30 people, who come almost all from the original 3D printing department of Anker. The first product that the promoted team is aimed at the reference index in the current multi-color 3D printing field-the last 3D multi-color field of Tuozhu with double co-color H2D.
On the other hand, the product should print the speedIncreased by 2 to 4 timesand has higher scalability: the basic configuration is two nozzles, and it can also beExpand. In the opinion of the resource library, if the Wang Zhiyu device can possibly be marketed, although it is late, it is still competitive and can occupy a place in the industry. After all, who does not like a faster and more efficient printer.
Currently, the Wang Zhiyu team leads the first cycle of financing, with a financing scale of 20 million yuan, mainly used for research and product development, team expansion and early market expansion. Judging by current progress, the product is likely to have entered the post-communization phase and should start production of small-scale trials during this year.
According to its plan, the project will reach revenues of 20 million yuan in 2025 and sprint to achieve an income target of 100 million yuan in 2026. At the same time, the team also simultaneously deploys markets abroad, focusing on groups of creators and education markets in North America and Europe, where the consumption potential of these regions is relatively more mature.
In 2025, we saw that after leaving Anker, Wang Zhiyu did not choose to change his career, but returned to the 3D printing track he knew.
The original team left.
That each persistent choice slowly becomes the answer.
We also look forward to more entrepreneurs to choose this piece of potential 3D printing, which is much more opportunities than we imagined.
Finally, I mean:
We are waiting for the next “Tuozhu”.
