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3D files publishing platform Sketchfab has raised $2 Million led by Balderton Capital, with participation by Partech Ventures, Borealis Ventures, and Techstars founder David Cohen. This fundraising comes just 10 months after Sketchfab raised \u20ac370K<\/a>\u00a0from a slew of French Business Angels; at the time, Sketchfab counted 20,000+ users, and has grown to over 100,000 users to date, getting them closer to their goal of becoming the “YouTube for 3D Files<\/a>.”<\/p>\n This past June\u00a0Sketchfab joined the Techstars program in New York<\/a>\u00a0for 3 months, and co-founder Alban Denoyel tells me that the team will continue to travel between Paris, where 7 of its team-members are based, and New York City.<\/p>\n In recent months, Sketchfab’s platform has become a popular way to share hardware designs, and integrations with Kickstarter, LinkedIn, Reddit & more have made it easy for users to upload and share their 3D Images.<\/p>\n Recently, 3D files for the Amazon Prime Air drone, the PS4, and the Nexus 5 have hit viral status on Sketchfab’s platform, with power-users regularly uploading 3D files for hardware products in the news.<\/p>\n Speaking with Alban, he told me that, while they had other investment offers of smaller amounts from various US investors, they ultimately chose to go with Balderton Capital, a VC they have had a relationship since the very beginning of Sketchfab, because they were looking for a lead investor who could guide them as they grow. The round has been led by Bernard Liautaud (who we interviewed earlier this year<\/a>), the former Business Objects founder. While Liautaud’s entrepreneurial experience falls more into the enterprise category, his investment portfolio has not been, and I’m excited to see him backing Sketcfhab.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" %CODEGOLDSKETCH% 3D files publishing platform Sketchfab has raised $2 Million led by Balderton Capital, with participation by Partech Ventures, Borealis Ventures, and Techstars founder David Cohen. This fundraising comes just 10 months after Sketchfab raised \u20ac370K\u00a0from a slew of French Business Angels; at the time, Sketchfab counted 20,000+ users, and has grown to over 100,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":21789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}