Yc Alum Adam Raises $4.1m To Turn Viral Text-to-3d Tool Into Ai Copilot

Adam, 1 of nan astir viral startups successful Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch, has raised a $4.1 cardinal seed information to powerfulness its adjacent steps, TechCrunch learned exclusively.

After generating complete 10 cardinal societal media impressions pinch nan motorboat of its text-to-3D exemplary app, nan AI startup had its prime of investors.

“We were getting word sheets complete email without immoderate meetings,” said CEO Zach Dive (on nan correct of nan picture).

Adam quickly went pinch TQ Ventures arsenic its lead investor because they agreed connected nan early of computer-aided creation (CAD). Just arsenic importantly, they besides agreed connected Adam’s roadmap — going user first, and past to enterprise.

This required nan astir alignment: Adam caught people’s attraction pinch a mainstream product, not an endeavor one. But Dive said this prime is paying off, and paving nan measurement for Adam’s upcoming copilot for professional-grade CAD workflows.

The startup had ever planned to spell B2B, but felt that nan exertion wasn’t enterprise-ready yet — which is why it initially focused connected makers, not engineers. But AI models improved faster than they expected, and Adam now plans to motorboat its copilot by nan extremity of nan year, Dive said.

Its first instrumentality lets creators without CAD skills create 3D models from matter prompts, but early feedback showed that matter wasn’t ever nan champion measurement to interact pinch 3D, Dive said. “So for our copilot, we blended successful different relationship paradigms; for example, users selecting different parts of nan 3D entity and conversing pinch it.” 

This will springiness nan startup an constituent of differentiation compared to other text-to-CAD products, though location is already title successful nan ‘AI copilot for CAD’ conception arsenic well. MecAgent, for instance, is already available, but Adam could capitalize connected its viral launch.

Early momentum peculiarly helped pinch hiring, which is still an ongoing effort, Dive said. He and his cofounder, Adam CPO Aaron Li, some graduated from UC Berkeley’s Master of Design program, but nan startup besides needs much AI and engineering talent to “give models nan correct discourse for reasoning successful space.”

Capital and endorsements tin some thief pinch this endeavor, and Adam now has its adjacent stock of both, sometimes combined. Besides TQ and participating costs 468 Capital, Pioneer, Script Capital, and Transpose Platform, Adam is besides backed by angel investors, including Tim Glaser (Posthog), Trevor Blackwell (YC), and Theo Browne (T3 Chat).

In addition, Vercel laminitis Guillermo Rauch called Adam “the v0 of CAD” (in a motion to Vercel’s V0, an AI-powered level for web creation).

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

Adam is already connected its measurement to reaching a wide audience, pinch “tens of thousands of individual users and a increasing guidelines of paying customers” for its modular and pro plans, which respectively commencement astatine $5.99 and $17.99 per month. The startup hasn’t begun to monetize its soon-to-launch endeavor offering, but has “testers validating different features,” Dive said.

This testing shape is intelligibly necessary: there’s rather a jump from helping amateurs people 3D Pikachus to supporting engineers successful their regular work. Dive said nan startup doesn’t intend to switch them, but alternatively streamlines time-consuming tasks specified arsenic applying nan aforesaid alteration to aggregate CAD files.

With an first attraction connected mechanical engineering, nan startup plans to thief these pro users make feature‑rich parametric designs successful celebrated CAD programs, opening pinch Onshape, which is known for bringing CAD to nan unreality and reshaping workflows. “The aforesaid point will beryllium existent pinch AI,” Dive predicted.