TechShop runs membership-based workshops that provide members access to a wide range of tools, machinery, and supportive staff to help realize projects. Its membership is open to inventors, makers, hackers, tinkerers, artists, roboteers, families, entrepreneurs, youth groups and arts-and-crafts enthusiasts. Facilities include drill presses, band saws, milling machines, lathes, sheet metal equipment, hand tools, industrial sewing machines, plastic and wood working equipment, Epilog laser cutters, electronics design and fabrication facilities, a Dimension SST 3-D printer, tubing and metal bending machines, and electrical supplies. The company currently operates workshops in Menlo Park and Raleigh, while its Portland site is moving and will reopen soon; a San Francisco facility was expected to open in the month of the article, and San Jose and Detroit sites were planned to start operations in 2011. TechShop is actively hiring. Financially, the company disclosed a $1.65M equity financing as part of a broader $4M fundraising effort in an SEC filing.

Total raised

$2M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Nov 2010