Company

Built by people who needed parts that didn't exist yet.

Trio Labs makes micro-scale metal manufacturing routine for the teams building the next generation of medical devices — from the largest device makers to the startups at the bleeding edge of technology.

80+

PATENTS PENDING AND ISSUED

70+ Companies

Trusted by startups, CDMOs, and Fortune 500 OEMs

ISO 13485:2016

CERTIFIED QMS

Why Trio exists

The company started as its own first customer.

In 2010, founder Adam Steege was developing a laparoscopic surgical device at Agile EndoSurgery — and ran into the wall micro-device teams know well: the metal parts the design needed could not be machined, molded, or printed at that scale.

RIPL™ — Resin-Infused Powder Lithography — is the answer to that constraint. Invented here, protected by 80+ patents, and now producing parts with repeatable quality at production scale for the surgical robotics and interventional platforms defining the field.

The company started as its own first customer.

Milestones

2010

Agile EndoSurgery founded; the micro-manufacturing wall is hit

2015

Trio Labs founded in Morrisville, NC

2023

ISO 13485:2016 certification and commercial launch

2026

70+ companies served

2026–27

First production programs ship

Leadership

Operators from the companies that built additive manufacturing, medical devices, and the systems that scale them.

Adam Steege

Founder & CEO

Over 10 years designing and developing medical devices — including the laparoscopic surgical device at Agile EndoSurgery whose micro-manufacturing constraints led to the invention of RIPL. Holds 80+ pending and issued patents.

Scott Schiller

Chief Commercial Officer

18 years at HP, most recently business leader through the launch of HP's 3D Printing Division. Mentor at Creative Destruction Lab (Seattle), a non-profit accelerator for STEM ventures.

Dave Folarin

Director of Engineering

Leads mechanical, materials, process, and software engineering — including the machine control systems and electronics behind the RIPL platform. Previously supported DARPA, NIH, and C5ISR programs.

Dakota Dunne

Chief Financial Officer

CFO across high-growth technology companies, from blockchain financial infrastructure to clinical research — guiding capital raises, scaling, and a successful sale to DTCC.

Shontera Gillespie-Coleman

Director of HR

HR leader with senior positions across multiple organizations, including WakeMed Health & Hospitals. M.S. in Human Resource Management, Central Michigan University.

Melissa Bilotta

Director of Operations

The engineers you'll actually work with

We invest in customer engagement teams that are peers to our customers — every project works with a customer development engineer who speaks the language of the part, from first STEP file through production.

Duke · Biomedical Engineering

Rachel Pate

Customer Development Engineer

Bridges engineering and customer needs across product design, 3D printing, optics, and biomechanics. M.Eng in Biomedical Engineering, Duke University.

Stevens · Medical device mfg

Hamza Mohamed

Customer Development Engineer

Mechanical engineer (Stevens Institute of Technology) with a career built in medical device manufacturing.

Customer development

Hunter Faulkner

Customer Development Engineer

Advised by the people who built the categories

The board of advisors spans the two industries Trio sits between: medical devices at the largest scale and additive manufacturing at its origin.

Medtronic

William A. Hawkins III

Retired Chairman & CEO of Medtronic. National Academy of Engineering; co-founder and Chairman of the Medical Device Innovation Consortium; Duke University trustee.

HP 3D Printing

Stephen Nigro

As President of 3D Printing, established HP as a leader with Multi Jet Fusion and launched HP Metal Jet. Four decades at HP, from the original inkjet R&D team.