Mitchell Wong

Sample Products

Financials

• Series A: $6M

• Series B: $5.1M + $6.2M

• Debt Financing: $1.2M

• Series C: $30M

• Total: $38.5M

History

• 2007: founded as part of a Philips startup incubator

• 2008: opened to public

• 2010: spun off from Philips

• June 2012: 1,000,000 objects printed

• Dec 2013: 2,200,000 objects printed and 13,500 customer owned shops

• Dec 2014: 23,000 customer owned shops

What’s Hot?

• Expedited 2 Day Production

• Collaboration with Nervous System to create a 3D printed dress

• Shapeways Global Partner Network

• A new foodsafe printable ceramic material

• ShapeJS: procedural generation of models using voxel based JavaScript code

The Secret Sauce

• Start to Finish Support

• Empowering Entrepreneurs

• Automation and Optimization and Decentralization

• App Support

Story

• From trinkets to engagement rings.

• Expands design possibilities• Unlearning design

constraints

• A personal and intimate process• Sentimental value

Competitors

• Kraftwurx• Greater selection of materials• Smaller user base

• iMaterialise• More expensive

• Sculpteo• More focused towards businesses

rather than individual consumers

The Future Looks Bright

• Technological advancement and increasing quality

• Changing perceptions and customer desires.

• Economies of scale

• Growing user base of producers and consumers

• The Global Partners program = focus on logistics

• Massive support for customers and designers

• Continual streamlining and simplification going from idea to object

Q&A

• Questions?