3D Hubs raises $4.5M to bringlocal 3D Printing to yourdoorstepGlobal network of 7,000+ 3D Printers gives 1 Billion peopleaccess to 3D Printing within 10 miles of their home.

Just one year after launching 3D Hubs, we are excited to announce our $4.5M Series-Afinancing round, led by Balderton Capital. We are proud to have top venture capital partnersbacking our mission to bring 3D printing to the masses. Mark Evans, General Partner atBalderton Capital, will join our two founders on the company board.

3D Hubs is a global network of local 3D printers. We connect people who want to 3D print tolocal 3D printers.

With the digitalization of music, movies and books behind us, our mission is to digitize themanufacturing of products. Heading towards a future where you are no longer dependent onproducts made in far away corners of the world. Instead a future where products will be madelocally through a distributed network of 3D printers. Local, on-demand and personalized.

“A future where products will be made locallythrough a distributed network of 3Dprinters.Local, on-demand and personalized„—

We can Make it

With 75,000 unique 3D models uploaded and over 30,000 prints made in less than a year, wehave shown that our mission is real. Local 3D printing is a viable alternative to centralizedmass production.

Interactive map of 3D print locations around the world. Embeddable version available here

With 7,000+ printers in our network, we give 1 Billion people access to a 3D printer within 10miles of their home. Through 3D Hubs, anyone can transform their ideas into physical reality,with the help of local communities.

These communities are powered by our roughly 100 ambassadors — better known as 3DHubs Mayors — who organize local meetups, workshops and presentations to educate andinspire local makers.

The Future

We raised this funding round to accelerate the number of products being produced locally,hereby propelling the world into the next industrial revolution. A world in which:

“Products are made locally and tailored to the individual, suiting personal needsas opposed to the average one-size-fits-all philosophy... Powered by real humanservice, availability is on-demand with delivery in under 2 days and based on anever evolving long tail of designs.„—

New Amsterdam?

To make this happen we opened up our first US office in New York, the hotbed of 3D Printing.

The office is located in the New Lab space at the Brooklyn Navy Yards, and will allow us to

ABOUT 3D HUBS

3D Hubs is the world’s largest and fastest growing network of 3D printers with over 7,000 locations in 140 countries.We are on a mission to make 3D printing accessible to everyone by unlocking the world’s idle 3D printers,facilitating transactions between 3D printer owners (Hubs) and people that want to make 3D prints. 3D Hubsempowers people to create a new type of product which is personalized, on-demand and locally produced.

3D Hubs was founded in April 2013 in Amsterdam by two former 3D Systems employees, Bram de Zwart and BrianGarret. Currently based in New York and Amsterdam, 3D Hubs is a privately held company backed by BaldertonCapital and Dutch investors DOEN and Zeeburg.

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grow our team from 20 to 30+ people this year.

Our goal for the coming year is becoming the #1 platform for 3D Printing by connecting over25% of the world population to local 3D printers. We see this network of 3D Printers as thefoundation, not the end goal.

Partnerships with Autodesk — world’s largest 3D software provider — and consumerbrands like Fairphone show how companies can adopt distributed manufacturing. We will usethis funding to unlock our 3D printer network to leading consumer brands that want to enter the3D print space.

Distributed Manufacturing

Smartphone manufacturer Fairphone already swapped their mass-production solution for on-demand and local production. In collaboration with 3D Hubs they are producing thousands ofmobile phone cases around the corner of the end consumer.

Our ambition is to empower consumers and inspire brands to leverage 3D printing as the newmanufacturing alternative.

This is just the beginning. Join us and help pave the way for the new maker revolution. Followthe maker movement on twitter, facebook or Google+.

Follow us on: Twitter, Facebook, G+, Instagram, or simply go to http://www.3dhubs.com.

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