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š¦ Unicorner Startup of the Week: Snaptrude
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Designing buildings collaboratively
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Snaptrudeās platform helps architects, designers, and developers collaborate on real estate projects. Described as the āFigma for architecture,ā Snaptrudeās cloud-based design tool can be accessed by entire teams through a browser. Teams can make projects (which are equipped with tools found in standard real estate design software) and work on them in sync.
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š° Business Model
Free tier offered (limit of 3 projects), with additional plans and benefits at $49/user/month (Professional tier) and $119/user/month (Organization tier). A customized Enterprise plan is available upon request.
š Traction and Fundraising
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Raised $6.6 million seed round from investors like Accel, Foundamental, CapitalX, Remote First Capital, Possible Ventures, and angels like Clark Valberg (InVision Co-Founder) and Thilo Konzok
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Over 6,000 customers (including companies like WeWork) and 18,000 projects on the platform
š« Founders
- Altaf Ganihar, CEO: Previously Electronics and Communications Engineering @ KLE Technological University
š¼ Opportunities
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š® Our Analysis
The world of Building Information Modeling (or BIM) tools is dominated by giants like Autodesk. As is the case with most industries monopolized with specific brands of software, innovation is slow. Popular real estate design platforms suffer from limited collaboration tools. Given the many kinds of people involved in each architectural project (engineers, interior designers, developers), itās no surprise that this industry is ripe for disruption. Enter Snaptrude. CEO Altaf Ganihar comes with a background in computer vision and graphics and realized the need for such software after working on an architectural project for an internship. His team wants to innovate real estate design the way Figma or Google Docs changed interface design and word processing, respectively. By being accessible through a browser, Snaptrude is easy to access and simple to add other collaborators to regardless of their operating system. While Snaptrude isnāt the only company looking to shake up the market, it is one of the most comprehensive up-and-coming BIM solutions. Features like its cost estimation and simulation tools make it, in the words of its CEO, a truly āfull-stack scenario.ā
š Further Reading
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