Founder
Harsh Vardhan Singh
Company strategy, advanced manufacturing
Advanced material systems, deposited by one platform, across multiple capability domains, in a single integrated build. Not separate processes stitched together.
Propulsion systems
Makerise is developing additive-manufacturing approaches for solid rocket motor systems — digitally manufactured components, integrated structures and repeatable production workflows.
[01] What it does
Incept-1 is being developed for advanced materials — structural, functional and energetic systems — written directly into finished geometry.
[04] Materials
[ 01 ] The idea, at its largest scale
Not a machine that makes one part of it. A platform that could make all of it, in the same build.
Most platforms commit to one material class. Incept-1 is being developed across both — thermosets written and cured, thermoplastics melted and fused — so the material set is not fixed by the process.
Why it matters
Direct ink writing and fused deposition are normally separate machines. Developing both on a shared platform is what keeps the addressable material set open.
Continuous flow
Cartridge-fed systems stop when the cartridge empties, which caps part size. Continuous feed is designed to remove that ceiling across both deposition approaches.
High-viscosity capability
Paste-grade viscosity is the difficult end of direct ink writing, and handling it is what makes highly filled and structurally demanding material families addressable at all.
The hardest components to manufacture are the ones that matter most. In advanced space and defence propulsion work, parts combine dissimilar material systems in demanding geometries, and each one carries tooling, vendors and long qualification cycles that make iteration slow and expensive. We are building a platform aimed at that problem: fewer separate processes, less dependence on tooling, and a cost base a lab in India can actually sign off.
Structural, functional and elastomeric material systems, addressed by the same toolpath engine. These are the application domains the platform is being developed against.
Makerise started with a small founding team and grew into a group of researchers and engineers working across advanced manufacturing, product design, next-generation materials and AI. Everything on this page was built by them.
[ The team ]
Four people who kept ending up in the same lab, arguing about why a printed part broke.
Above: four of the team at the National Additive Manufacturing Symposium 2026, where the first working prototype was shown. The company has since grown to eight.
[ Ecosystem & institutional network ]
Founding alumni institute
Ideation and foundational research at IIT Indore shaped the company's early technology direction.
Incubation & technology support
Incubated under Tripraman-3, with support for technology and product development in additive manufacturing.
Incubation partner
Business incubation and mentorship through Launchpad 26, supporting commercialisation and growth.
Researchers and engineers across additive manufacturing, materials, firmware and production.
Founder
Company strategy, advanced manufacturing
Slicer & toolpath planning, AI/ML
Slicer, toolpath planning, AI-ML
Slicer & toolpath algorithms
Slicer, toolpath algorithms
Materials & supply chain
Materials, supply chain
System design & production
System design, production
Firmware & hardware integration
Firmware, hardware integration
Legal, compliance & marketing
Legal, compliance, marketing
Legal & Marketing
Legal, compliance, marketing
Incept-1 began with a manufacturing problem rather than a product plan. The patented platform that resulted is still being developed — this is the direction of that work.
Different material systems and demanding geometries tend to need different tools, different processes and separate steps that have to be joined afterwards. The constraint sits in the workflow, not in the design.
The work moved away from making any one process better, and toward a platform that could address a wider range of advanced material systems digitally — without committing to a single material class.
Deposition flexibility, complex geometry and integrated material workflows converged into one platform: the ability to place dissimilar material systems in a single build rather than assemble them afterwards.
Development continues on broadening the material set and the application domains the platform is built to serve. The capability areas above are where that work is pointed.
[ Enquiry ]
Specification, materials, lead times, or a part you are not sure is printable. Open the form, ask, and a human answers within two working days.
[ Direct ]