SAN FRANCISCO / LONDON (IT BOLTWISE) – Adam, an emerging Y Combinator startup, recently closed a $4.1 million funding round. With its innovative approach to text-based 3D modeling, the company plans to revolutionize the computer-aided design market. The new funding is intended to advance the development of an AI-powered copilot for professional CAD workflows.
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Adam, a promising Y Combinator startup, recently closed a $4.1 million funding round to fund its next steps. The company has garnered over 10 million impressions on social media with the launch of its text-based 3D modeling app, attracting interest from numerous investors.
The company quickly chose TQ Ventures as its lead investor because both parties share a common vision for the future of computer-aided design (CAD). Adam plans to first conquer the consumer market before focusing on the corporate sector. This strategy has proven successful and paves the way for the introduction of an AI-powered co-pilot for professional CAD workflows.
Adam originally planned to focus on the B2B market, but the technology was not yet ready for enterprise use. Therefore, the company initially targeted makers and not engineers. Thanks to rapid advances in AI technology, Adam now plans to launch his co-pilot by the end of the year.
Adam’s first tool allows users without CAD knowledge to create 3D models from text instructions. However, early feedback showed that text is not always the best way to interact with 3D models. Therefore, Adam has integrated various interaction paradigms in which users can, for example, select parts of the 3D object and interact with them.
This differentiation could give Adam an advantage over other text-based CAD products, although there is already competition in the ‘AI copilot for CAD’ space. An example is MecAgent, which is already on the market. Still, Adam could benefit from his viral start.
The early success has also helped with recruitment, which continues to be ongoing. CEO Zach Dive and CPO Aaron Li, both graduates of UC Berkeley’s Master of Design program, are looking for additional AI and engineering talent to give models the right context for spatial thinking.
Adam is backed by a number of investors including TQ Ventures, 468 Capital, Pioneer, Script Capital and Transpose Platform. Prominent angel investors such as Tim Glaser, Trevor Blackwell and Theo Browne also took part. Guillermo Rauch, founder of Vercel, referred to Adam as the “v0 of CAD,” indicating the platform’s simplicity and speed.
Adam already has a wide user base with “tens of thousands of individual users and a growing number of paying customers” for its Standard and Pro plans, which start at $5.99 and $17.99 per month. The company has not yet started monetizing its upcoming enterprise offering, but is already testing various features with select users.
The initial focus is on mechanical design, with the startup planning to help professional users create feature-rich parametric designs in popular CAD programs, starting with Onshape. Dive predicts that the same transformation that brought CAD to the cloud will also be driven by AI.
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