Vizcom Car Design

[Ken Reels]

Recentlystarted experimenting with Vizcom A.I. using an old project I designed in Blender and created black and white sketches for from Blender. These images are strictly from Vizcom and no photoshop work

Vizcom is an Ai-powered creative tool designed for design and creative professionals. It offers a transformative approach to concept drawing, enabling users to turn their sketches into impressive realistic renderings quickly and efficiently.

Vizcom, the startup building an AI-powered industrial design platform, has announced a $20 million Series A funding round led by Index Ventures, with participation from notable angel investors Kyle Parrish, Steve Malouf, Ayush Sood, and Daniel Sturman. This funding follows a $5 million seed round in January 2023, led by Unusual Ventures, and brings the company's total funding to nearly $26 million at a valuation of $100 million.

Founded in 2021 by Jordan Taylor and Kaelan Richards, Vizcom has quickly gained traction among leading enterprises, including Ford and New Balance, for its innovative approach to industrial design. The platform seamlessly integrates AI capabilities into the design process, enabling designers to transform sketches into photorealistic renders, explore countless design variations, and collaborate with team members in real-time.

What sets Vizcom apart is its user-centric approach, which complements designers' existing workflows rather than attempting to replace them. "Our goal has always been to build a tool that leverages how designers already work, not replace them," said CEO Jordan Taylor in a blog post announcing the funding. "We wanted to give designers a creative accelerant that would bring their ideas to life faster and more efficiently, while still keeping them firmly in the driver's seat."

Vizcom's intuitive interface allows designers to import sketches, draw directly within the application, and use natural language commands to refine designs. The platform's Workbench feature provides an infinite canvas for ideation, version management, and collaboration, while its 3D layers capability enables designers to upload 3D models as starting points and set desired perspectives.

Nina Achadjian, a partner at Index Ventures who led the investment, was impressed by the company's rapid growth and customer adoption. "Over the course of 2023, we were so impressed by the tremendous amount of inbound they had gotten," she told Forbes. Achadjian also praised Taylor's passion and vision, comparing him to other successful young founders backed by Index Ventures, such as Figma's Dylan Field and Scale AI's Alexandr Wang.

With the Series A funding, Vizcom plans to significantly expand its product development efforts, adding even more capabilities to enhance every stage of the design process. The company will also grow its team, bringing in top talent in design and technology, and scale up its enterprise offerings to transform the way innovative companies approach design.

Looking ahead, Taylor envisions a future where designers can seamlessly move from a rendering in Vizcom to a 3D printer, streamlining the process from concept to physical prototype. "I think one day you're going to be able to upload a line drawing to Vizcom and a 3D printer goes off."

We are thrilled to announce our seed investment in Vizcom, a generative AI startup focused on helping professional 3D designers cut multiple tools and hours of rendering time from their paper-to-production workflow.

When we first started investing in generative AI applications, we saw two clear patterns of success. First, helping "unskilled" users become creative for the first time (for example: use Midjourney to go from 0 to 1 in art) and the second, helping skilled professionals save massive amounts of time by automating repetitive, "uncreative" tasks (eg: Github's Copilot to autocomplete code).

Vizcom's vision is the latter: to be a Copilot for all 3D product designers who currently use a combination of different complex Adobe and Autodesk products along with presentation tools to bring their imagination to life. With Vizcom's AI-native sketching tools and custom models, they can benefit from advances in AI while maintaining complete creative control and avoiding any concerns about copyright. Already serving many thousands of designers, with this raise, Vizcom will be expanding its offering from rendering sketches to 3D models.

While being a perfect fit for our thesis, what really stood out to us were the founders. Vizcom's CEO Jordan Taylor has been a designer as long as he can remember, starting with graphic designs for T-shirts as a child growing up in Michigan. In his first job, he worked on automotive design at Honda and then moved to Silicon Valley to join the industrial design AI Research team at NVIDIA. This is where he first came into contact with the progress being made in generative AI.

We are so thrilled with the incredible response Vizcom has received from the design community as well as the Fortune 500 and are excited to be the lead seed investors in this passionate, talented, and diverse team building generative AI along with Basis Set and a slew of great angels, including Nat Friedman (Github), Oluwaseyi Sosanya (Gravity Sketch), and Dug Song (Duo).

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We are a Series A startup with a distributed team, blending local talent in San Francisco with remote experts from around the world. Vizcom is a product visualization tool where AI driven solutions meet carefully crafted experiences. We care deeply about design. Our CEO has a background in industrial design and nearly half of our team members have design experience too. We are very connected to the user and the problems we solve. We exercise immense caution when choosing what to build and why. AI can be a fast-paced and ever-evolving space, but we understand that not every new discovery will solve a true problem for our user. We look to understand pain points and opportunities first, then find technology that fits.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA / ACCESSWIRE / January 26, 2023 / The pace at which technology has developed in recent years has been truly exponential. Google was founded only in 1998, but today we cannot imagine a life without it or Facebook or YouTube or Instagram. With Vizcom, Jordan Taylor, who is the co-founder and CEO of the company, is seeking to leverage generative AI to expedite the process of converting 2D designs into 3D objects. Poised to be a gamechanger in the visual design industry, Jordan has already raised funds in a pre-seed and initial seed round to the tune of $5 million from venture capitalists. Like him, they are hoping to unlock the potential the technology offers to shorten the paper to product cycle in the development of real life objects like cars and footwear.

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