Hypar, the cloud-based design automation platform for buildings, announced a $5.5 million Series A round led by Brick & Mortar Ventures with participation from Building Ventures.
“BIM has been a buzzword in the construction industry for decades now,” says Alice Leung, vice president of platform and product strategy at Brick & Mortar Ventures. “There have been challenges in its adoption and Hypar is here to change that — it’s a step change in how we are designing and generating 3D assets.”
Hypar’s founders, Ian Keough and Anthony Hauck, have decades of experience in creating digital building solutions. Keough developed goBIM, the first BIM visualization application for iOS, which was later acquired by Vela Systems. He then invented Dynamo, a widely popular visual programming language for Revit.
After 20 years in architectural and construction practice, Anthony Hauck held positions at Autodesk as the AEC director of product management and director of product strategy for Autodesk’s AEC Generative Design Group, where, with Keough, he led the team that created Generative Design for Revit.
After leaving Autodesk in late 2017, and through conversations with hundreds of design and construction firms, Keough and Hauck recognized a need for access to repeatable, scalable building expertise.
“For centuries, buildings have started on a blank page, as if no one had ever built anything before,” Hauck said. “We automate best practices so that projects don’t have to start from scratch.”
Added Keough, “For too long, we’ve had fragile automation workflows in AEC strung together with various softwares. Hypar provides the platform to deliver scalable building expertise to support the industry’s transition toward buildings as a product. On Hypar anyone, anywhere, can build collaborative applications leveraging the world’s building expertise.”
In addition to the main platform, the team has launched a space planning app built on Hypar that reduces time spent on commercial test fits by 90%.
The new funding will be used to expand platform features, product lines, and go-to-market teams.
