Swedish startup Finch secures €2.5m funding to spearhead the shift from manual to generative workflows in the AEC industry
Swedish startup Finch announced it has secured €2.5 million funding to spearhead the shift from manual to generative and data-driven workflows in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. The funding round was led by Inventure and notable angels such as Peter Neubauer (co-founder of Mapillary and Neo4j) and Emil Sjödin (co-founder of Refined).
The funding round will help Finch to build the next-generation design tool, empowering architects, engineers and constructors to build better cities by making more informed decisions in early-stage planning.
Finch was started in early 2020 and the team has grown since then and so has the product.The startup has gone from a plug-in to a cloud-based collaboration platform that prevents costly and time-consuming errors while speeding up the early stage of a project. The startup believes that working together in the cloud and using generative design as a default is the future of the architecture, engineering and construction industry and it will help the whole industry move forward.
Peter Leuchovius, CIO, White Arkitekter: ''The age of computational design is here and we want to be in the forefront. By using scripting, simulations and generative tools we inform our proposals in the early stages. This allows us to make better design decisions where they are most needed and necessary to deliver sustainable architecture.''
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