Speckle Snags $5.5M Seed To Build Open Source Platform For 3D Drawings
04/14/22, 2:00 PM
Location
londonMoney raised
$5.5 million
Industry
software
internet services
Round Type
seed
The founders of Speckle, an early-stage startup based in London, are both trained architects and engineers, probably a rare combination. It enabled them to see and understand firsthand the issues associated with exchanging large proprietary 3D files from vendors like Autodesk and Trimble. They wanted to make it easier by building an open source platform to exchange and collaborate on these files.
Company Info
Location
london, ontario, canada
Additional Info
The companies that dominate this space have existed for many years, and Stefanescu said they have had little motivation to innovate around file-sharing or open source. Today, the company has 13 employees as it tries to continue to build a community around the open source project. Today the company announced a $5.5 million seed round to help them continue building the company. He said that Speckle is also a developer platform on which you can harvest this 3D data and use it for productive things like building applications that make it easier to work with.