Put an object inside its scanner, basically a large box that weighs 3,000 pounds and stands six-feet high, and X-rays capture hundreds or even thousands of images in multiple dimensions as the item rotates. “We are trying to take technology developed for the most extreme applications in the world and make it accessible for every engineer.”īy 2019, he was ready with his own idea for 3D scanning technology. I learned what it takes to build products successfully,” he says.
Meanwhile, in 2014, he’d moved to Boston to become director of engineering at 3D printing firm Formlabs after meeting that company’s cofounder and CEO Maxim Lobovsky through a mutual friend. “I didn’t make any money off that, but the lessons learned were extremely valuable,” he says. In 2016, Scotts Miracle-Gro acquired Oso for an undisclosed amount. “It was the wrong time, wrong team and wrong tech,” Torrealba says. Their company, Oso Technologies, raised nearly $100,000 on Kickstarter in 2014 to bring its Plant Link moisture sensor to life. With a few friends, he targeted a problem that plagues a lot of students: They were killing their houseplants.
to start a company, you can just start a company.” I went to a startup event and I learned that you didn’t have to have a Ph.D. “I really just wanted to build products that solved problems for people. “I started doing research and I instantaneously realized I hated it. He saw how some of his professors had commercialized technology based on their research, and he went to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with the intention of following that path to become a professor. “It gave me a chance to see and experience things I wouldn’ve have otherwise.” “College changed my life,” Torrealba says.
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He went to Baylor University in Waco on a full scholarship from the Gates Foundation’s Millennium Scholars Program. Torrealba, a 34-year-old Hispanic American, grew up in a working-class family in Arlington, Texas, where his father ran an air-conditioning repair business. Lumafield cofounder and CEO Eduardo Torrealba: "This is the hardest thing I think I can work on and make an impact on." Courtesy of Lumafield
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