A brand new spherical of layoffs has hit Seattle laser engraver maker Glowforge.
Co-founder and CEO Dan Shapiro informed GeekWire that the startup merged its gross sales and advertising groups.
“As a part of that course of, over the past three weeks we added three people and sadly mentioned goodbye to 5 people from that staff,” Shapiro mentioned.
Shapiro didn’t present particulars on which positions had been impacted, however posts on LinkedIn from affected staff present that at the least one longtime advertising chief on the firm was let go.
Senior executives and members of the corporate’s buyer care staff had been additionally laid off, in keeping with an individual with information of the cuts.
In April, Shapiro mentioned that Glowforge employed simply over 90 full-time and contract staff.
Shapiro based Glowforge in 2015 with fellow startup veterans Mark Gosselin, the present CTO, and Tony Wright, who left the corporate in 2017. Shapiro beforehand bought the startup Sparkbuy to Google, and he created Robotic Turtles, a coding board recreation for teenagers that was one among essentially the most profitable campaigns ever on Kickstarter.
Glowforge, which has raised $183 million to this point and is No. 125 on the GeekWire 200 startup index, went via a tough patch in 2023 and 2024, shedding staff after a funding spherical fell via.
The corporate gave up on current headquarters area in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood to consolidate steps away in a warehouse constructing on Occidental Avenue South.
In that area, the corporate not too long ago moved manufacturing of its highest-end machines from Mexico again to america and was using 15 manufacturing staff to assemble them.
