Hasta La Ideas

Conventional wisdom says that manufacturing isn’t viable in America, least of all in New York City. But MakerBot is bucking that trend in a couple of ways: Firstly they manufacture objects that manufacture other objects. Secondly, they just increased their physical footprint by a factor of ten. On Friday, MakerBot cut the ribbon on their new 55,000-square-foot facility in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, trading up from their comparatively puny 5,000-square-foot startup space.

The expansion comes as no surprise given that MakerBot has recently hired scores of new employees. Recent funding talks have thrown around figures of $25-$50 million, with murmurs of a $300 million valuation.

(more…)