O’Shaughnessy Ventures awards $100K to Michelle Wang for additively manufactured magnet research
Investment firm O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC, has awarded an O’Shaughnessy Fellowship to Michelle Wang, an engineer based in New York based on her work developing additively manufactured magnets.
“I’m grateful to the OSV team for this opportunity, and for taking big bets on garage tinkering and early stage ideas,” said Wang. “I’m excited to develop new manufacturing methods for magnets, which I hope will expand our technological capabilities.”
Wang’s work on magnet production aims to improve manufacturing methods by enabling faster, low-waste magnet production and the creation of novel magnetic structures. An additively manufactured magnet would represent a leap in magnetic technology and enable a range of new technologies, research projects and business opportunities.
As an electrical engineering graduate from the California Institute of Technology, Wang is an experienced engineer who has helped build items such as prostheses and underwater robots. She began researching new ways to create magnetic materials in 2023 after leaving her engineering job to research power grid issues independently.
In January 2024, she received a fifteen-week Brains Fellowship from the nonprofit research organisation Speculative Technologies where she developed a research proposal and began conducting experiments in her home laboratory.
OSV’s founder, Jim O’Shaughnessy, commented, “Magnets are a key component of the manufacturing process. By improving magnetic technology, we could unlock all kinds of exciting new opportunities. We were extremely impressed by Michelle’s vision and experience, and look forward to supporting her with this project over the coming months.”
