Long before the stock market ups and downs and the global economic uncertainty caused by President Donald Trump’s ever-changing tariff policies, Seattle-based laser engraver maker Glowforge made a decision to… Read More
Seattle-based 3D laser engraver maker Glowforge is making another pitch to home crafters with another lower-priced machine, the company announced Tuesday. Less than a year after the release of the… Read More
Glowforge, the Seattle-based maker of 3D laser engravers, has been tangled in a legal dispute with a Las Vegas man who claimed online for years that the startup is selling… Read More
Glowforge laid off more employees after an investment round fell through recently at the Seattle-based maker of 3D laser engravers, the company confirmed to GeekWire. Co-founder and CEO Dan Shapiro… Read More
Glowforge, the Seattle-based maker of 3D laser engravers, has laid off 30 employees, co-founder and CEO Dan Shapiro confirmed to GeekWire on Friday. “We’ve had to make some tough calls… Read More
Glowforge, the Seattle-based maker of 3D laser printers/engravers, wants to bring crafting to a wider audience of consumers with a new lower-priced machine called Aura. Priced at $1,200, the Aura… Read More
Glowforge has signed on with a new retail partner in a bid to get its 3D laser printers and other products in front of more customers who are already thinking… Read More
Glowforge, the Seattle-based startup that makes a 3D laser cutter/engraver, is making a move into education to bring its technology to more schools and students and foster a sense of… Read More
Intriguing and quirky characters flock to the tech industry. But how many of them would happily classify themselves as a barbarian or a sorcerer, a druid or cleric? Turns out,… Read More
Glowfolks — fans of 3D laser printer maker Glowforge — are sure to be happy about this. Shipments remain on schedule for July and August of this year, after they were delayed several… Read More
Glowforge, the Seattle-based startup which makes 3D laser printers, today announced a $22 million investment round. Previous investors Foundry Group and True Ventures participated in the Series B round, which brings total… Read More
Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? Turns out it’s been a very helpful thing for the past two years, and Thursday the folks at Glowforge dumped buckets of cold water over their heads… Read More
Glowforge is delaying initial shipments of its 3D laser printer again. The Seattle startup, which set a crowdfunding record by raising nearly $28 million from thousands of backers who pre-ordered the… Read More
Life at a startup can certainly have its ups and downs. For the folks at Seattle-based Glowforge, Thursday was somewhere in between, as 16 of the company’s 28 employees got… Read More
Glowforge is delaying initial shipments of its innovative 3D laser printer. The Seattle startup set a crowdfunding record this past October, raising nearly $28 million from thousands of backers who pre-ordered… Read More
The term “unicorn” is tossed around frequently in entrepreneurial circles, referring to 130 or so private startups with a valuation of $1 billion or more. For some, reaching this mythical status can… Read More
It seems there is demand for Glowforge’s 3D laser printer. The new Seattle startup wrapped up its 30-day crowdfunding campaign this past Friday and set a new funding record in… Read More
So far, so good for the folks at Glowforge. The Seattle startup began selling its 3D laser printer on Thursday morning and hit $1 million in sales just 15 hours later, selling… Read More
Glowforge is bringing back the idea of “homemade” with its new 3D laser printer. The young Seattle startup today opened up pre-orders for its innovative printer at a limited time price… Read More
Most who live in the startup world have a very intimate relationship with failure. The overwhelming majority of startups are forced to shut their doors before they accomplish their goals. This is the… Read More
Dan Shapiro needed to replace his wallet a few months ago. His new company, Glowforge, just built a newly-developed 3D laser printer, so Shapiro went to a local leather shop… Read More
Glowforge, a once secretive hardware-and-software company founded by startup veteran Dan Shapiro, has raised $1.265 million to build what it calls “the first 3D laser printer.” In a new filing with the U.S. Securities… Read More
Seattle startup veteran Dan Shapiro vowed after college that he’d never go into the software business, even though his dad was a computer science professor. Instead, Shapiro — who put… Read More
It started on a Kickstarter page, and now it’s on the shelves at Target. Robot Turtles, the board game invented by Seattle software entrepreneur Dan Shapiro that teaches kids how to code,… Read More
It’s time to kick off the voting in another key GeekWire Awards category — Geek of the Year. This is a special award, designed to recognize not just technical prowess… Read More
With three days left in his Kickstarter campaign, Dan Shapiro has more than eclipsed his $25,000 fundraising goal for Robot Turtles, a board game that teaches the fundamentals of programming to… Read More
Dan Shapiro has made his mark as a Seattle software entrepreneur, creating startups such as Ontela and Sparkbuy. Now, Shapiro, who is on leave from Google, is turning his attention… Read More
It was a few mint juleps in to the evening when Joe Heitzeberg and I started talking about the common experiences of startuphood. “I just maxed out one of my credit cards,”… Read More
When I founded Ontela with my friends Charles and Brian, we were all sick of big companies. There were a lot of things we wanted to do differently, but one… Read More
When Dan Shapiro joined the startup world in 2002, he was bitten by the bug…hard. Find out what he’s learned along the way and hear his startling confession in this… Read More
