Shapeways

Private

Online 3D printing service started in 2007 as a Philips spin-off. Went public by SPAC in 2021, filed for Chapter 7 in 2024, and was relaunched the same year by two of its co-founders and the team running its Eindhoven factory.

Announced its merger with Galileo Acquisition Corp in Apr 2021 at 605 million dollars of equity value. The 3D printing SPAC scoreboard sets that against what came next.

Status: Private
Headquarters: Eindhoven, Netherlands
Founded: 2007
Ownership: WVS International, owned by co-founders and Eindhoven managers

Timeline

6 entries, oldest first

2007
2007
Founded inside Royal Philips in Eindhoven
By Robert Schouwenburg, Marleen Vogelaar and Peter Weijmarshausen.
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2010
Dec 2010
Moves its headquarters to New York
Four months after raising its first 5 million dollars.
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2021
Sep 2021
Lists on the NYSE through a SPAC
Completed its merger with Galileo Acquisition Corp on 29 September 2021 and began trading as SHPW the next day.
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2024
Jul 2024
Files for Chapter 7 and stops operating
Shapeways Holdings filed on 2 July 2024, less than three years after listing.
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Jul 2024
Eindhoven operation bought by its managers
Manuevo, a subsidiary of WVS International, bought the assets of Shapeways BV and kept the factory running.
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Nov 2024
Co-founders buy back the brand
WVS International, owned by the Eindhoven managers and co-founders Marleen Vogelaar and Robert Schouwenburg, bought the name, website and remaining assets from the US trustee.
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Informational only, not investment advice. Timeline entries are compiled by hand from public sources and can lag real events. Figures come from company reports and news, not from us. Private companies rarely publish financials; where a figure is not disclosed we say so instead of estimating it.