The $30M Bet That Shapeways Becomes a Factory for Everyone

GPS · Oct 5, 2013

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz plays the investing game different from much of its VC cohort. Rather than scattering its money around a relatively large number of startups, the Silicon Valley firm places big bets on a handful of companies and industries. Today, Andreessen Horowitz is placing a very big bet, $30 million, on Shapeways and 3-D printing.
Shapeways is doing for manufacturing, what the internet did for self-publishing, making it accessible to everyone, says Chris Dixon, the Andreessen Horowitz general partner who led the firm’s investment in the New York City-based company.

For a fee, Shapeways offers anyone access to very expensive industrial-grade 3-D printers that can crank out objects ranging from jewelry to figurines and other original inventions in stainless steel, ceramic and plastic among other materials. Unlike much cheaper desktop 3-D printers, Shapeways offers professional designers and hobbyists a more refined end product. In other words, something you might sell.

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Source:
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/04/30-million-bet-that-shapeways-becomes-a-factory-for-everyone/

Shapeways:
http://www.shapeways.com/

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