Diamond Foundry

Diamond Foundry is a San Francisco, California-based lab-grown diamond producer, founded by MIT, Stanford and Princeton engineers and founded in 2012. The primary founder and current CEO is Martin Roscheisen, who also founded Nansolar, eGroups, TradingDynamics, and FindLaw.

Diamond Foundry was certified as a Carbon Neutralcarbon-neutral company by Natural Capital PartnersNatural Capital Partners. The lab-grown diamonds from Diamond Foundry are energy efficient and environmentally friendly.

The company starts with a sliver of an earth-minded diamond. ThatThe seed diamond is then heated to temperatures as hot as theythe outer layer of the sun. Layers of identical crystal atoms stack on top of the diamond, and growsgrow up to nine carats in two weeks of uninterupteduninterrupted time in the reactor.

In 2016, Diamond Foundry received funding from Leonardo DiCaprio and 12twelve billionaires, including founders and founding investors from Google, Twitter, SUN, eBay, Suntech, and Facebook. In total, Diamond Foundry had raised about $100 million. In 2017, a MegaCarat foundry is was developed in Wenatchee, Washington State.

In 2017, Diamond Foundry purchased Vrai & Oro, aan LA-based fine jewelry label, and opened a retail location in downtown LA at the ROW DLTA shopping center. The store sells all three of Vrai & Oro's collections featuring Diamond Foundry diamonds. The three collections include: Essentials, Vow, and Black.

Diamond Foundry is a San Francisco, California-based lab-grown diamond producer, founded by MIT, Stanford and Princeton engineers and founded in 2012. The primary founder and current CEO is Martin Roscheisen, who also founded Nansolar, eGroups, TradingDynamics and FindLaw.

The company starts with a sliver of an earth-minded diamond. That seed diamond is then heated to temperatures as hot as they outer layer of the sun. Layers of identical crystal atoms stack on top of the diamond, and grows up to nine carats in two weeks of uninterupted time in the reactor.

In 2016, Diamond Foundry received funding from Leonardo DiCaprio and 12 billionaires including founders and founding investors from Google, Twitter, SUN, eBay, Suntech and Facebook. In total, Diamond Foundry had raised about $100 million. In 2017, a MegaCarat foundry is developed in Wenatchee, Washington State.

In 2017, Diamond Foundry purchased Vrai & Oro, a LA-based fine jewelry label, and opened a retail location in downtown LA at the ROW DLTA shopping center. The store sells all three of Vrai & Oro's collections featuring Diamond Foundry diamonds. The three collections include: Essentials, Vow and Black.

Diamond Foundry is a San Francisco, California-based lab-grown diamond producer, founded by MIT, Stanford and Princeton engineers. The primary founder and current CEO is Martin Roscheisen, who also founded Nansolar, eGroups, TradingDynamics and FindLaw.

Diamond Foundry was certified as a Carbon Neutral company by Natural Capital Partners. The lab-grown diamonds from Diamond Foundry are energy efficient and environmentally friendly.