
Flyingshapes offers an AI-powered 3D ideation platform for automotive designers, enabling hyperproductive 3D sketching and design communication. Their software allows for an effortless and intuitive 3D creation experience without complex modeling. The platform supports unlimited 3D collaboration for design organizations, facilitating global, fast, easy, and immersive teamwork. Flyingshapes aims to increase productivity by accelerating design creation, communication, and decision-making, with features like instant 3D results, iterations within seconds, 3D reviews from any device, and precise 3D communication. Users can explore five times more ideas in 3D and communicate concepts with sketches of unprecedented quality, rallying teams around a shared vision. The company offers a free trial and provides its software for Windows, requiring a VR headset and controllers for operation.

Flyingshapes offers an AI-powered 3D ideation platform for automotive designers, enabling hyperproductive 3D sketching and design communication. Their software allows for an effortless and intuitive 3D creation experience without complex modeling. The platform supports unlimited 3D collaboration for design organizations, facilitating global, fast, easy, and immersive teamwork. Flyingshapes aims to increase productivity by accelerating design creation, communication, and decision-making, with features like instant 3D results, iterations within seconds, 3D reviews from any device, and precise 3D communication. Users can explore five times more ideas in 3D and communicate concepts with sketches of unprecedented quality, rallying teams around a shared vision. The company offers a free trial and provides its software for Windows, requiring a VR headset and controllers for operation.
What they do: AI/VR-enabled 3D ideation and hyperproductive 3D sketching platform for product and automotive designers
Headquarters: Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Founded: 2018
Founders: Dr. Johannes Mattmann and Jonas Kunze
Funding: Pre-seed round announced Oct 2, 2018 (lead investor: BITO CAMPUS)
3D design ideation, VR-based modeling, and collaborative design review for industrial and automotive design teams.
2018
3D design software / CAD / Virtual Reality
Pre-seed investment announced Oct 2, 2018; amount not disclosed in available records
“Early investment from BITO CAMPUS and an earlier business angel (Dr. Marc Koehnemann) indicate institutional and angel backing in 2018”