Glowforge
Facts
- HQ
- Seattle, WA, US
- Sectors
- Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
- Founded
- 2014
- Employees
- 58
- Stage
- startup
- Total raised
- $27.9M SEC Form D filings Total of this company's SEC Form D filings
- Last round
- $27.9M · Jul 2016 SEC Form D
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Seattle Hardware Firms Glowforge and Rad Power Bikes Face Financial Collapse Amid Pandemic Boom and Overfunding
Seattle hardware companies Glowforge and Rad Power Bikes, once pandemic-era boomers, face severe financial struggles due to manufacturing challenges and overfunding. Their difficulties highlight a broader regional trend of high hopes and tough realities in consumer hardware startups.
Seattle’s history of hardware heartbreak: Big raises, high hopes, hard landings
Seattle’s consumer-hardware ambitions are once again colliding with economic reality. The struggles of Glowforge and Rad Power Bikes echo a long regional history of big raises, high hopes, and hard landings — shaped by the pandemic, VC, and the unforgiving nature of building real products. GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook recorded this conversation for the purpose of providing the audio to an AI tool that turned the conversation into a written column that was edited and reviewed before publication. Check it out here. Related Stories: Glowforge hits restart: After restructuring, co-founders acquire key assets of laser engraver startup…
People
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Dan Shapiro Founder, Co-founder and CEO, Executive Officer, Director, Promoter
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Mark Gosselin Founder, Co-founder, Executive Officer, Promoter
