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adamOne of the most viral startups in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch has raised $4.1 million in seed funding to power its next steps, TechCrunch has learned exclusively.
After generating more than 10 million social media impressions with the launch of the text-to-3D model app, the AI startup had the choice of investors.
“We were getting term sheets by email without any meetings,” says CEO Jack Dive (pictured right).
Adam hurried along TQ Ventures As its main investor because they agree on the future of computer-aided design (CAD). Just as important, they also agreed on Adam’s roadmap — going consumer first and then enterprise.
It required the most alignment: Adam got people’s attention with a mainstream product, not an enterprise. But Dive says that choice is paying off and paving the way for Adam’s upcoming co-pilot for professional-grade CAD workflows.
The startup had always planned to go B2B, but felt the technology wasn’t yet enterprise-ready — which is why it initially focused on manufacturers, not engineers. But the AI models have improved faster than they expected, and Adam now plans to launch its co-pilot by the end of the year, Dive said.
Its initial tool allowed creators without CAD skills to create 3D models from text prompts, but early feedback showed that text wasn’t always the best way to communicate in 3D, Dive said. “So for our co-pilot, we mixed in different interaction paradigms; for example, users select different parts of a 3D object and interact with it.”
This will give the startup an element of comparative differentiation Other text-to-CAD productsAlthough there is already competition in the ‘AI copilot for CAD’ segment as well. MakeAgentFor example, is already available, but Adam can capitalize on its viral launch
The early pace especially helped with recruiting, which is still an ongoing effort, Dive said. He and his co-founder, Adam CPO Aaron Lee, both graduated from UC Berkeley’s master of design program, but the startup needs more AI and engineering talent to “give the model the right context for logic in space.”
Both capital and endorsements can help in this endeavor, and Adam now has his fair share of both, sometimes in combination. In addition to TQ and participating funds 468 Capital, Pioneer, Script Capital, and Transpose Platform, Adam is also backed by angel investors including Tim Glaser (Postog), Trevor Blackwell (YC), and Theo Brown (T3Chat).
Also, Vercell founder Guillermo Rauch called Adam “the v0 of CAD”. Vercel’s V0an AI-powered platform for building the web).
“It’s easy, fast, and reaches a wide audience,” he said Wrote in X.
Adam is already on track to reach a wider audience with “thousands of unique users and a growing base of paying customers” for its Standard and Pro plans, which start at $5.99 and $17.99 per month, respectively. The startup hasn’t started monetizing its soon-to-launch enterprise offering, but it has “testers testing various features.”
This testing phase is clearly necessary: from helping amateurs to 3D print Pikachus to helping engineers in their day-to-day work, there are several jumps. Dive says the startup doesn’t want to replace them, but instead streamlines time-consuming tasks like applying the same changes to multiple CAD files.
With an initial focus on mechanical engineering, the startup plans to help these pro users create feature-rich parametric designs in popular CAD programs. shapeKnown for bringing CAD to the cloud and reshaping workflows. “The same thing will be true for AI,” Dive predicted.
