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Design Intelligence (CAD)

Next-generation CAD tools, AI-assisted geometry generation, and cloud-native design environments replacing legacy desktop modellers.

29 startups covered in this category. Each card links to the original LinkedIn deep-dive with analysis, funding context, and competitive positioning.

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Allspice.io

🤔 What if circuit design got GitHub, GitLab, CI/CD and AI code review… [ Startup #102 ] Why are so many hardware teams still trying to manage critical design work with…

Boston, United States 🇺🇸

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Axial3D

🚀 Catching Up with Innovation: 2D to 3D Medical Imaging with Axial3D! 🚀 Had an inspiring conversation with Roger Johnston / DBT Export Champion of Axial3D about their…

Belfast, United Kingdom 🇬🇧

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Bench

Every engineering leader talks about “AI for CAD.” Martin Bielicki told me Bench is going after the two workflows engineers hate doing… because they’re expensive, slow, and…

London, United Kingdom 🇬🇧

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C-Infinity

🫢 Most manufacturers think C2 continuity is "good enough." Sai Nelaturi just explained why that

Mountain View, United States 🇺🇸

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Campfire

Most people still think “immersive tech” in engineering means flashy demos, bulky headsets, and marketing videos that never survive contact with reality. Jay Wright of Campfire…

San Diego, United States 🇺🇸

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Cognitive Design by CDS

🎯 You don’t often talk to someone rethinking how engineers design for manufacturing. I sat down with Vincent Ung, Co-Founder and COO of Cognitive Design by CDS in Toulouse,…

Toulouse, France 🇫🇷

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Compute Maritime

🚢 How Compute Maritime Is Transforming Maritime Design with AI 🚢 Meet Shahroz Khan, a trailblazer whose journey began as a mechanical engineering student fascinated by ships and…

London, United Kingdom 🇬🇧

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COSMON

💡 “Cursor for Engineers” I just learned about Cosmon directly from founder Rui Aguiar, and I have to say I came away excited! Most AI copilots live inside one vendor’s walled…

San Francisco, United States 🇺🇸

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CustoMED

🩺✨ From 4 weeks to 2 hours: how Customed is transforming patient-specific surgery I recently had the chance to sit down with or benifla, founder of CustoMED, a medtech startup…

Ramat Gan, Israel 🇮🇱

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DGG - The 3D Pipeline Company

Love when a convo cuts through the buzzwords. Just met with Max Limper of DGG - Creators of RapidPipeline on the real work of getting big, messy CAD models render-ready—fast.…

Darmstadt, Germany 🇩🇪

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DraftAid

🔥 Disrupting Engineering: How DraftAid is Redefining CAD with AI! 🔥 Just wrapped an insightful interview with Mohammed Al-arnawoot from DraftAid, a company on a mission to…

Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦

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Drafter

⚠️ Your $120K engineers are spending 40% of their time on drawings. And 1 in 3 has a critical error that costs you $50K-$2M to fix. Here

Denver, United States 🇺🇸

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Hestus

🚀 Exciting times at Hestus! 🚀 I had the pleasure of joining Sohrab Haghighat, founder of Hestus for a demo of his forthcoming innovative design tool, Sketch Helper, which…

San Francisco, United States 🇺🇸

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InfinitForm

🚀 Transforming the Future of Design and Manufacturing! 🚀 In a recent enlightening discussion Michael Bogomolny, Ph.D., we dove deep into the challenges and innovations shaping…

Los Angeles, United States 🇺🇸

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Infinitive

🚀 Imagine configuring and buying a fully custom, complex product—hardware, electronics, even furniture—with the same ease as ordering pizza. I had the distinct pleasure to meet…

Leamington Spa, United Kingdom 🇬🇧

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Leo AI

🚀 A 20+ year aerospace veteran just did in 1.5 hours what used to take his team of 3 engineers THREE WEEKS. Meet Leo AI - the first AI copilot built specifically for mechanical…

Cambridge, United States 🇺🇸

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Makistry

He built a CAD startup before he can legally toast it 🍾 Most founders celebrate launch day with champagne. Parth Mehta can’t. He isn’t 21 yet. And he already has a legit CAD…

Austin, United States 🇺🇸

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NexCAD

🚀 AI-Powered Engineering: NexCAD is Shaping the Future of CAD 🚀 I had the pleasure of interviewing Uzair Syed the founder of NexCAD.ai, a startup that’s redefining how engineers…

Bradford, United Kingdom 🇬🇧

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nTop

🛫 nTop’s Implicit Modeling Is Redefining CAD’s Future - a new shot fired in the Kernel Wars! In an exclusive interview with Bradley Rothenberg, Founder and CEO of nTop, I got…

New York, United States 🇺🇸

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Optellix

Hot take from Deep (Ratnadeep Mukkirwar): 3D is the richest dataset in manufacturing… and we’ve locked it behind CAD/PLM licenses. So downstream teams still work blind in 2D.…

Pune, India 🇮🇳

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Plasticity

⚙️ Most CAD startups are pitching AI-first. Plasticity

New York, United States 🇺🇸

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Rev1

Most AI in engineering is still chasing flashy demos. REV1 (YC W26) is going after one of the most painful, repetitive, high-consequence bottlenecks in hardware development:…

San Francisco, USA 🇺🇸

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Satory XR

🚀 Meet Satori XR — the startup turning dusty CAD files into powerful sales weapons Here

San Francisco, United States 🇺🇸

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Shapr3D

🔮 What if a single moment of inspiration could change the future of CAD? When István Csanády, founder and CEO of Shapr3D, first picked up an iPad, he quickly realized its…

Budapest, Hungary 🇭🇺

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Spherene

🚀 Rethinking What’s Possible Inside Every Part: The Spherene Revolution [ CORRECTED! ] “Most CAD platforms obsess about the exterior—the curves, the surfaces, the way things look…

Zürich, Switzerland🇨🇭

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Threedy

🎇 Revolutionizing 3D Visualization: Threedy’s Journey from Research to Real-World Impact What if you could stream complex 3D engineering data instantly, right in your browser,…

Darmstadt, Germany 🇩🇪

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Vertex

Most companies do not have a 3D modeling problem. They have a secure 3D access problem. That was the core insight from my conversation with Dan Murray, founder of Vertex Software.…

Des Moines, United States 🇺🇸

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Zephyra

Most “quality” software in manufacturing does this: ✅ Shows you what’s wrong ❌ Then leaves you alone to figure out how to fix it. When I spoke with Ahmed Dagani (ZEPHYRA), the…

Pont-Saint-Martin, Italy 🇮🇹

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Zoo

🍭 CAD “Text-to-3D” is starting to feel like a commodity. But most of what’s shipping is mesh/voxel output you can’t really engineer with. What I heard from Jordan Noone at Zoo is…

Inglewood, United States 🇺🇸

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