YC alum Adam raises $4.1M to turn viral text-to-3D tool into AI copilot

YC alum Adam raises $4.1M to turn viral text-to-3D tool into AI copilot

Adam, certainly one of the most viral startups in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch, has raised a $4.1 million seed round to energy its next steps, TechCrunch discovered completely.

After producing over 10 million social media impressions with the launch of its text-to-3D mannequin app, the AI startup had its decide of buyers.

“We were getting term sheets over email without any meetings,” said CEO Zach Dive (on the proper in the image above).

Adam rapidly went with TQ Ventures as its lead investor because they agreed on the future of computer-aided design (CAD). Just as importantly, they also agreed on Adam’s roadmap — going shopper first, and then to enterprise.

This required the most alignment: Adam caught people’s consideration with a mainstream product, not an enterprise one. But Dive said this alternative is paying off and paving the manner for Adam’s upcoming copilot for professional-grade CAD workflows.

The startup had always deliberate to go B2B however felt that the technology wasn’t enterprise-ready yet — which is why it initially centered on makers, not engineers. But AI fashions improved sooner than they anticipated, and Adam now plans to launch its copilot by the end of the 12 months, Dive said.

Its preliminary tool lets creators without CAD abilities create 3D fashions from textual content prompts, however early suggestions confirmed that textual content wasn’t always the best manner to work together with 3D, Dive said. “So for our copilot, we blended in different interaction paradigms; for example, users selecting different parts of the 3D object and conversing with it.” 

This will give the startup a component of differentiation in contrast to other text-to-CAD merchandise, although there may be already competitors in the “AI copilot for CAD” phase as nicely. MecAgent, as an illustration, is already out there, however Adam might capitalize on its viral launch.

Early momentum significantly helped with hiring, which is still an ongoing effort, Dive said. He and his co-founder, Adam CPO Aaron Li, each graduated from UC Berkeley’s Master of Design program, however the startup also wants more AI and engineering expertise to “give models the right context for reasoning in space.”

Capital and endorsements can each assist with this endeavor, and Adam now has its truthful share of each, sometimes mixed. Besides TQ and collaborating funds 468 Capital, Pioneer, Script Capital, and Transpose Platform, Adam is also backed by angel buyers, including Tim Glaser (PostHog), Trevor Blackwell (YC), and Theo Browne (T3 Chat).

In addition, Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch called Adam “the v0 of CAD” (in a nod to Vercel’s V0, an AI-powered platform for net creation).

“It’s simpler, faster, and reaches a broader audience,” he wrote on X.

Adam is already on its manner to reaching a broad viewers, with “tens of thousands of individual users and a growing base of paying customers” for its customary and professional plans, which respectively start at $5.99 and $17.99 monthly. The startup hasn’t begun to monetize its soon-to-launch enterprise providing, however has “testers validating different features,” Dive said.

This testing section is clearly vital: There’s fairly a soar from serving to amateurs print 3D Pikachus to supporting engineers of their daily work. Dive said the startup doesn’t intend to exchange them, however instead streamlines time-consuming duties such as making use of the same change to a number of CAD recordsdata.

With an preliminary deal with mechanical engineering, the startup plans to assist these professional customers generate feature‑wealthy parametric designs in fashionable CAD packages, starting with Onshape, which is thought for bringing CAD to the cloud and reshaping workflows. “The same thing will be true with AI,” Dive predicted.

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