3D Codeless Design Tool Spline Receives $15 Million Investment

Spline, a codeless design tool for creating 3D assets, has received investment. First Round Capital announced that it raised $15 million in a seed round led by Gradient Ventures with participation from NXTP, Chapter One, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, Y Combinator, Webflow CEO. Co-founder and CEO Alejandro Leon said the proceeds, which bring Spline's total revenue to $16 million, will go towards R&D and expanding the size of the startup's 20-person team.

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3D Codeless Design Tool Spline

He said that he has been passionate about 3D since he was a kid and even learned coding through it. Leon launched Spline in 2020, inspired to make the 3D design process simpler and easier to learn. Spline was accepted into one of Y Combinator's 2021 batches. And it was released in beta last March. Spline allows users to create 3D objects, edit materials, add interactivity (including game controls) and animations. It also allows them to export them from a web browser, from scratch or from pre-made objects. The platform's collaboration features also allow users to work together to fine-tune and comment on assets and create real-time physics simulations and interactions between them. We should note that more than 1 million creators have joined Spline to date.