Timeplast raises $5 million, nears 10,000 new retail investors

A sub-$1,000 printer that listens for voice commands only matters if it can do something useful, like cut setup friction, simplify monitoring, or make printing easier for users who do not want to live inside a touchscreen menu. That is the bet Timeplast is making with Manifester, the AI-powered machine it says will turn spoken commands into finished physical objects.

The pitch comes as Timeplast closed an oversubscribed $5 million Regulation CF campaign that drew 9,733 retail investors, with nearly $1 million a week coming in during the final three weeks. The company says it used DealMaker’s white-labeled platform so it could keep ownership of investor data and maintain a direct line to the community that is funding its next moves. That same community-first logic has already paid off once: Timeplast said an email to its investor list helped sell 10,000 sustainable straws in six hours.

Timeplast is not approaching hardware from a single-material angle. The company says it has more than 80 proprietary 3D-printing filaments, and its store shows just how far the lineup runs past standard hobby fare. Alongside TimeMass Retroreflective Holographic Filament, the catalog includes detergent filaments, lawn repair filament, plant vitamin, fish bait, fish food, insect barrier, rodent deterrent, photovoltaic filament, and other niche products. For home users, that breadth is intriguing because material variety is often where the fun, and the real testing, begins. It is also where the hard questions live: whether these materials print reliably, repeatably, and with enough consistency to justify the novelty.

The company describes itself as a chemical technology business focused on sustainable polymer solutions, depolymerization, and environmentally conscious materials. Founder and CEO Manuel Rendon, whom Timeplast identifies as an American inventor born in Venezuela, an environmental engineer, and a former PepsiCo executive, has spent more than 20 years on plastic-pollution work, according to the company. Timeplast says its material platform is based on programmable, water-soluble polymer technology, with materials that can be designed to dissolve anywhere from 60 seconds to 60 years after disposal. It also says the dry material can be 70% water. A U.S. patent, 10,947,332, titled “Copolymer with programmable water solubility,” was granted in March 2021.

That is why the voice-control idea matters more than the usual launch chatter. In a market crowded with capable desktop printers, a feature like Manifester’s spoken commands has to solve a real pain point, not just decorate a demo. Timeplast is asking home users to believe that materials breadth, AI control, and a community-funded cap table can add up to a printer that feels genuinely easier to use.