Companies · Ecommerce / Retail

Layer By LayerSummer 2013Acquired

Mountain View · CA, USA · Ecommerce / Retail · founded 2013 · http://layerbylayer.com

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Layer By Layer — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
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Top 44%
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Latest stage · inferred

Layer By Layer: limited disclosed financing to assess.

Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page.

Where it sits in Ecommerce / Retail

Layer By Layer is one of 123 Ecommerce / Retail companies tracked from Mountain View, CA, USA, on record since 2013. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 57% of sector peers), and mid-pack by modeled valuation est..

Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.

AI analyst read est. — model-extracted from this company's public description, not a verified fact. 30%

operates a technology-led product inferred from public copy

Grounded in: “You are a venture analyst

Acquired by MakerBot in February 2014. A marketplace for 3D…

Layer By Layer is an online marketplace for the buying, selling, and sharing of printable 3D designs. We're going to make it possible to get the things you need and want by printing them yourself, from your own home. We want to allow anyone, technologist or amateur, to be able to use a personal 3D printer - so we decided to create an easy way for people to find and print great products.

3D PrintingMarketplaceecommerce/retail
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Amount raised vs valuation, by round

Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.

No round amounts on record to chart.

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No staged rounds to sequence.

Modeled valuation trajectory
Base estimate est.
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Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size. Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.

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How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 123 companies in Ecommerce / Retail. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.

Total raised — vs sector median (real $, all stages)
This company
Sector median$2.7M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages)
This company
Sector median$12.4M

Raised more than 57% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 57% of peers (estimate).

Full financing history

Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.

StageAmount · realAnnouncedPost-money · estValue · estConf.
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Modeled next size est.
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Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.

Registry & provenance

Layer By Layer is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.

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Nearest neighbours across the whole database — matched on sector, stage and capital scale, and on shared operators (officers or directors named at both companies in public filings). A discovery shortlist, not a valuation cohort — verify before acting, the same way modeled figures are directional.

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What does Layer By Layer do and where is it based?
Layer By Layer operates in the Ecommerce / Retail sector, based in Mountain View, CA, USA. Acquired by MakerBot in February 2014. A marketplace for 3D…
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