When Your Investors Place Orders

Timeplast closed an oversubscribed $5M Reg CF with 9,733 retail investors. When the company launched its sustainable straws, a single email to that investor list sold 10,000 units in six hours.

The investors didn't just fund the company. They bought from it. The cap table became a sales force overnight.

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"Twenty years of R&D went into getting here, and we're just getting started. The people investing in Timeplast aren't looking for a quick exit. Neither are we. We're building toward something much bigger."
— Manuel Rendón, CEO and Founder, Timeplast

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Materials Science with a 20-Year Foundation

Timeplast's work to date has produced two milestones: a class of sustainable materials that molecularly disintegrate in water, and a scalable industrial process refined across more than 30 production trials. The portfolio now includes 80+ proprietary 3D printing filaments, including what Timeplast believes is the world's first 3D-printable soap.

The company's next major product is the Manifester, an AI-powered 3D printer designed to turn voice commands into finished physical objects. Timeplast aims to deliver industrial-scale manufacturing in a$1,000 or less home device.

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Why Timeplast Chose Retail

Timeplast decided to run a Reg CF for three reasons:

Preserve founder governance and long-term outlook. Twenty years of R&D doesn't fit on a venture capital timeline. Retail capital let Timeplast keep building toward the Manifester without compressing the roadmap.

‍Bring retail into deep R&D categories. Materials science companies typically raise from institutional investors over long horizons. Timeplast opened the same opportunity to the people who actually use the products.

‍Convert customers into shareholders. The straws and 3D-printing community were already buying from Timeplast. The Reg CF turned the most engaged buyers into part owners.

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The Results

Timeplast closed at $5M, oversubscribed, from 9,733 retail investors. The raise gained momentum in its final three weeks, bringing in roughly $1M per week.

The community is already showing up. When Timeplast launched its sustainable straws, a single email to its investor list sold 10,000 units in six hours.

Why DealMaker

Timeplast ran the raise on DealMaker's white-labeled platform, keeping the investor experience on its own site rather than routing through a marketplace. That gave Timeplast full ownership of its investor data and a direct channel to the community backing it. The structure also preserved Timeplast's existing governance and aligned capital with the founder's long-term outlook.

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"We didn't want to rent our investor relationships. DealMaker lets us own the data and build a direct relationship with the people backing us. That's a fundamentally different outcome than showing up as one logo among many."
— Manuel Rendón, CEO and Founder, Timeplast

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Manuel is already bringing his next company to the platform. String Cubed, his matter-computing venture and the holder of a new U.S. patent for analog computing, will run its first Reg CF on DealMaker. As Manuel puts it, “The value DealMaker delivered for Timeplast made the choice for his second company an easy one.”

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Where Capital Formation Is Heading

The companies running Reg CF raises today have access to traditional capital, but choose retail for what traditional capital cannot offer: a community of stakeholders, a built-in marketing channel, and a cap table that buys, talks, and refers.

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For science-forward companies with long product timelines and a passionate fan base, retail capital is leverage.