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Fracture is an Internet-based photo finishing service. Fracture's main service is printing photos directly onto glass. The company is based in
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History

A startup company in North Central Florida, Fracture was founded by two graduates of The University of Florida, Alex Theodore and Abhi Lokesh. They began selling their product in December 2009."Glass-printing startup is growing business one image at a time"
''The Gainesville Sun'', Anthony Clark, April 17, 2011
Theodore and Lokesh raised $1.5 million in funding from outside investors,"Fracture Raises Another $500K For On-Demand Printing Of Photos On Glass"
''Tech Crunch'', Jun 3, 2013 by Sarah Perez
including Tamiami Angel Fund I in 2012. In 2011, after a Groupon promotion, sales increased significantly, and the company moved to a larger building and had ten employees. In 2013 the company raised an additional $500,000 to pay for further expansion. By 2014, the company had filled about 50,000 orders. By July 2015, the company had filled over 100,000 orders.


Features

Customers upload photos through the company's website and get back those photos printed on a pane of shatter resistant glass. The process takes less than an hour, and the photos can be as small as or as big as .


See also

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Photo printing Photographic printing is the process of producing a final image on paper for viewing, using photographic paper, chemically sensitized paper. The paper is exposed to a photographic Negative (photography), negative, a positive reversal film, transpa ...


References


External links


FractureMe.com

WCJB – TV 20 “Technology Spotlight”
August 31, 2010
Foundora “Abhi Lokesh, Co-Founder of Fracture, Shares His Startup Story, His Lessons Learnt & Speaks About Challenges of Tangible Product Startups”
February 14, 2011
Daily Grommet “Fracture: Images on Glass”
May 31, 2011 {{coord, 29.77548, -82.44079, display=title American photography websites Companies based in Gainesville, Florida