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Speckle Snags $5.5M Seed To Build Open Source Platform For 3D Drawings

Apr 14, 2022•about 3 years ago

Amount Raised

$5.5 Million

Round Type

seed

LondonSoftwareInternet Services

Description

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 Information

Company

Speckle

Location

London, Ontario, Canada

About

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.