Gendo, an AI-driven platform that allows architects and designers to quickly generate high-quality visualisations from sketches, 2D drawings, or textual content prompts, has raised €5.1 million in a Seed funding spherical. The funding, co-led by PT1 and LEA Companions with participation from Idea Ventures and Koro Capital, follows Gendo’s preliminary pre-seed funding of €1 million simply 4 months in the past.
Based in 2024 by architectural designer George Proud and software program engineer Will Jones, Gendo’s platform permits customers to rework concepts into intricate, sensible visualisations inside minutes, enabling architects to cut back the time and price related to conventional rendering processes. Gendo’s browser-based AI answer lets customers generate and customise photographs rapidly, with a median time of simply eight minutes per visualisation—over 100 occasions quicker than typical strategies.
Gendo has attracted over 3,500 customers worldwide, who’ve collectively generated greater than 50,000 photographs for five,000 initiatives. Early adopters embrace famend companies reminiscent of Zaha Hadid Architects, KPF, David Chipperfield Architects, and Benoy. The corporate additionally introduced that Patrik Schumacher, principal at Zaha Hadid Architects, will be part of as an Advisor, bringing his experience in structure and AI to assist form Gendo’s enterprise product and market strategy.
George Proud, CEO & Co-founder of Gendo, mentioned: “It’s been a whirlwind since we launched the platform and introduced our pre-seed funding in July. We’re enormous believers in bespoke Generative AI instruments which are designed for particular use circumstances – the reception to Gendo has been an enormous validator of that perception. It’s good to welcome PT1, LEA Companions and Helm Capital to the Gendo journey. All have deep sector experience and immense worth to supply. And we’re thrilled that Idea has doubled down on their dedication to us and our imaginative and prescient. This new tranche of funding will permit us to maintain this scaling trajectory going and put Gendo on the coronary heart of how all visualisations are created.”
Investor help and strategic imaginative and prescient
Gendo’s Seed funding will help the growth of its AI capabilities and the event of options aimed toward enterprise purchasers, together with customised workflows and enterprise licensing fashions. The platform’s rising group of customers, together with high structure companies, underscores its worth within the aggressive area of architectural visualisation.
Patrik Schumacher, principal at Zaha Hadid Architects famous: “I’m enthusiastic about Gendo bringing high-quality skilled AI to architects’ fingertips. The positive factors by way of each productiveness and inventive versatility are a step-change for our self-discipline.”
Nikolas Samios, Managing Accomplice at PT1 added: “What stands out about Gendo—aside from the stellar crew—is the truth that they’ve developed an software leveraging AI developments in picture era, customised for the architectural sector. Gendo’s industry-specific workflows completely guarantee product-market slot in architectural visualisation.”
