Fabheads
About
About Fabheads
Fabheads' fibre-printing process places continuous carbon reinforcement directly along the load paths of a component without cutting the complete part from stacked sheets. Automated fibre placement and hybrid fabrication combine printed reinforcement with conventional composite processes where additional surface finish, thickness or geometry is required.
The company provides design, tooling, prototyping and production around aerospace, defence, mobility and industrial components. Automating fibre placement reduces hand lay-up, material offcuts and dependence on expensive moulds, supporting lighter structures and shorter iteration cycles from an initial CAD design to qualified composite hardware.
Funding
- 2025-06-24 - Series A - Fabheads secures equity and debt financing
Fabheads announced a US$10 million equity-and-debt financing package led by Accel, with venture debt from Trifecta Capital. - source: inc42.com
- 2021-05-18 - Pre-Series A - Fabheads raises INR80M pre-Series A
Fabheads raised INR80 million to commercialize and scale its automated composite-manufacturing technology. - source: economictimes.indiatimes.com
Investors
- Accel - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-24
- Inflection Point Ventures - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-05-18
- Keiretsu Chennai - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-05-18
- Vijay Kedia - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-05-18
Team
- Dhinesh Kanagaraj - Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer - The co-founders combine aerospace and mechanical engineering experience with work automating composite manufacturing.
- Abhijeet Rathore - Co-Founder - The co-founders combine aerospace and mechanical engineering experience with work automating composite manufacturing.
Timeline
Events
- 2025-06-24 - Funding - Fabheads secures equity and debt financing
Accel led the equity financing, while Trifecta Capital provided venture debt. Capital will expand manufacturing capacity, leadership, engineering and research teams. The company planned a larger Bengaluru facility focused on aerospace customers.
Source - 2024-02-28 - Deployment - Fabheads printers equip IIT Madras additive-manufacturing laboratory
The print farm integrates Fabheads C6 cloud-based slicing software. FabMachines F Series printers support continuous carbon-fibre printing. The laboratory supports hands-on student training and additive-manufacturing research.
Source - 2021-05-18 - Funding - Fabheads raises INR80M pre-Series A
Existing investors Keiretsu Chennai and Vijay Kedia also participated. Capital supports R&D, a global sales and distribution network, and growth infrastructure. Fabheads was already providing design and manufacturing services to drone, robotics and shipping companies.
Source - 2020-10-06 - Award - Fabheads wins National Startup Award for 3D printing
Fabheads received the National Startup Award in the 3D Printing category in October 2020. The government profile recognized its FibrBot systems for printing carbon-fiber parts with steel-like strength and lower weight. Startup India also recorded a prior INR600,000 DRDO Dare to Dream award and INR1 million IIT Madras incubation grant.
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