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SpAItial
Spatial foundation models for photorealistic, physics-aware 3D worlds
About SpAItial
SpAItial is a London-based AI company founded in 2024 by Matthias Niessner (CEO; TU Munich professor and Synthesia co-founder), Luke Rogers (former McKinsey and early Cazoo leader), Ricardo Martin-Brualla (previously led generative 3D work at Google) and David Novotny (formerly headed text-to-3D asset generation at Meta). The company builds Spatial Foundation Models that understand, generate and reason about 3D environments with geometry, materials and physics from minimal inputs such as a single image, short video or text — aiming for photorealistic, interactable virtual worlds beyond pixel image generators. Target applications include gaming and entertainment, CAD and construction visualisation, VR/AR and robotics simulation; the go-to-market plan centres on licensing models and APIs to developers. In May 2025 SpAItial emerged from stealth with a $13 million seed round led by Earlybird Venture Capital, with Speedinvest and high-profile angels, to fund compute, hiring and partner integrations. Sources: TechCrunch 26 May 2025; spaitial.ai.
Source: Dealroom company dataAt a glance
- Status
- Operational
- Founded
- 2024
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Employees
- 22
- Open positions
- 5
- Dealroom signal
- 93.0/100
- Sector
- Robotics, Core AI, Immersive Technologies, 3D Modelling, Novel AI, Generative AI, genAI Model Maker
- Technology
- Artificial Intelligence, 3D Technology, Deep Tech, Machine Learning, Virtual Reality, Computer Vision
- Business model
- SaaS
- Client focus
- b2b
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Funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEED✓Equity / VC | May 2025 | $13M | $52M | Speedinvest · Maximilian Odendahl · Sergej Epp · Elias Schneider | ↗ |
Growth signals
Latest recorded traffic for SpAItial is 26K monthly website visits, up 198.9% over the last three months. SpAItial's team grew 57.1% over the past year.
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed12 investors entered at this stage
Earlybird Venture Capital
Speedinvest
Maximilian Odendahl
Sergej Epp
Elias Schneider
Victor Riparbelli- PWPaul Whitehead
- EGEdward Grefenstette
Steffen Tjerrild
Christian Stiebner
Jon Barron- RGRahul Garg
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