He spoke to many architects, and they will likely tell you that the Autodesk program, including AutoCAD and Revit, was indispensable for their work for decades.
But despite its widely used, the former previous Autodesk company and the chief official of producer Ammar Hansbal says that the architecture industry, engineering and construction (AEC) uses tools in the twentieth century to design the twenty -first century buildings. Another starting it, motif -The company described by Hanspal as “the next generation design platform”-is in this position. You have now raised $ 46 million in aid from this effort.
Hanspal comes to the problem in the wake of a long career in the AEC technology. He spent about 20 years in Autodesk, then in 2018, he participated in the founding of Bright Machines, a manufacturing automation company (which raised herself with great funding). Six years later, Hansal left bright machines and was looking for his next action.
The AEC’s explosion revealed a great frustration between architects with current programs, which do not depend largely on the cloud and can take up to 45 minutes to process simple adjustments.
In 2023, Hanspal collaborated with Brian Matthews, the former CTO product in Autodesk, to work on the incentive.
Motif’s first product will not be ready until the first half of this year, but Hanspal gave an approximate picture of what it would be. He said that the incentive is to build a platform that will provide a set of design tools that work with the help of a 3D cloud computer that will contain elements of machine learning and Amnesty International.
46 million dollars collected by the company now raised is a mixture of seed and chain financing A. The series A by Capital G, the growth box in Alphabet, while Redpoint Ventures led the seed tour.
Gille Chase, Capital G and Techcrunch partner to search for an architect before Ezzar meet. I noticed it was a very large market with outdated products.
I wondered why the current tools were not disrupted and learned that putting the 3D architecture models in the cloud is very difficult technically.
In addition to the engineering complexity, the sale of these tools may be difficult, Cis said. “You must have some elements of confidence and relationships with large architecture companies in order to allow you to enter the door.”
When I met Henspal and Matthews, I knew immediately that their experience combined 40 years in the AEC software industry would help them create a company that she can take over.
As for the long time to release the first product, Henspal compared Motif efforts to design Figma, which was surreptitious The situation for three years Before launching anything.
“It is a very big and ambitious project, we know that it will take a large amount of effort to withdraw,” said Hanspala.
The incentive is not alone in an attempt to disrupt the AEC program. Other startups in the sector include Snaptrde and Arcol.
But Hanspala is sure that the motivation has the best opportunity to win this market.
“It really requires a very special team ready to do hard work,” he said. “I think this is us.”
