Earlier this year, French 3D printing service bureau Sculpteo raised €5 Million, some of which came from the family behind the multinational grocery giant Auchan. Today, Sculpteo’s Dutch competitor, Shapeways just upped the ante by six times, raising $30 million in a funding round led by INKEF Capital, which included the firm’s existing investors – Union Square Ventures, Index Ventures, Lux Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz – on top of two new investors, Hewlett Packard and Presidio Ventures.
Shapeways was spun out of Philips High Tech Campus in 2008, before obtaining investors and opening their first factory in Eindhoven in December of 2010. …
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