Diamond Foundry


Diamond Foundry is a producer of manmade diamonds in San Francisco, California.

Investors

Diamond Foundry was founded in 2012 by Martin Roscheisen and Jeremy Scholz. The company has raised about $100 million in funding from various investors, including the Sun Microsystems and Google founding investor Andy Bechtolsheim, iPod co-creator Tony Fadell, eBay founding president Jeff Skoll, Twitter founder Evan Williams, Facebook co-founder Andrew McCollum, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, and businessman Jean Pigozzi.

Technology

The company developed five generations of plasma reactor designs using software simulations of plasma physics to develop its technology for managing a high-density plasma for diamond growth at extremely high temperatures.
As contrasted with diamond simulants and natural mined diamonds, synthetic diamonds are actual diamonds that are produced by a manufacturing process. The company "grows" diamond using the chemical vapor deposition method, by placing a small piece of natural diamond in a plasma reactor for a period of about two weeks. The resulting man-made diamond is essentially identical to natural diamond but without the resource intensiveness, hazards, and environmental concerns that occur with diamond mining.

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