Company adds Android support and impressive new
features with latest release
Spline raises $10 million to give designers the
superpower to move seamlessly from ideas to production-ready
experiences
Spline, the collaborative 3D design platform, today announced
the addition of Android support, making it possible for the first
time ever to design for Android in 3D, build the interactions, and
ship natively to any spatial device, mobile application, or website
without using code. It is now the only 3D design platform to enable
these capabilities across both the Android and Apple ecosystems.
Spline also debuted a number of features, including its real-time
API and WebHooks, which can connect with AI to create rich
interactive AI experiences in 3D.
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Spline is a web-based, real-time 3D
design platform that enables creators to collaborate, build, and
ship interactive 3D experiences straight to production across any
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In addition to Spline’s new capabilities, the company also
announced that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The
round was led by Third Point Ventures, with participation from
Gradient Ventures, Y Combinator, Firestreak, Jorn van Dijk (CEO of
Framer), and Guillermo Rauch (CEO of Vercel). Third Point Partner
Dan Moskowitz joined the company’s board of directors. Funds will
be used for ongoing product development, with a particular emphasis
on bringing AI to 3D designers and simplifying the creative process
to further excite Spline’s rapidly growing user base. This user
base has doubled over the past 12 months, and the Spline community
has already designed more than 7 million scenes.
"We were blown away by how easy it was to create and collaborate
inside Spline and push designs into production," said Dan
Moskowitz, Partner at Third Point Ventures. "The up-to-now standard
3D design tools, most of which first came out decades ago, are not
approachable. They take a lot of time to get productive. Spline's
early traction, and the novel use-cases that users are coming up
with, show that it is changing the way people think about 3D and
how 3D can add value."
Delivering the Future of Content Creation
Spline offers a web-based collaborative platform that enables
designers to create stunning 3D content and interactive experiences
without coding. The company's user-friendly interface and powerful
features have attracted millions of creators globally, from
individual designers to large enterprises.
“Previously, the only way to make interactive 3D for mobile was
to use a game engine, which was problematic. It simply did not make
sense for a designer to learn how to use something as complex as a
game engine when trying to make 3D content for an app, so we
figured out a way to fundamentally change this,” said Alejandro
León, founder and CEO of Spline. “3D is the future for content
creation. We strive to make it as simple and compelling as possible
by giving designers the superpowers they need to transform ideas
into production-ready experiences.”
Spline now expands its cross-platform support with the Android
ecosystem - enabling people to make 3D not only for phones and
tablets, but also smart watches, smart TVs, Android Auto, and more.
This follows Spline’s announcement of support for the Apple
ecosystem (including the Vision Pro), ensuring 3D content can be
experienced anywhere.
In addition to Android support, Spline also rolled out:
- Real-time API: This new feature allows designers to
connect APIs with variables, trigger events, and actions to make
changes within their scene based on the data that is coming from
the APIs. Now designers can create interactive experiences that
rely on real data with authentication, and they can control when to
connect with the API based on the event actions in a scene.
- Webhooks: With Webhooks, creators can now also generate
custom WebHook URLs for each of their scenes to be used from
third-party tools to push events, notifications, or data. WebHooks
allow users to receive data in a simple format that’s compatible
with thousands of apps.
- AI Experiences: The combination of the real-time API and
Webhooks makes it possible for designers to connect with an AI
model and request information, then use that information to control
the look and feel of the objects in a 3D scene. For example, they
can make 3D objects react to text content from the AI model and
create contextual UIs. Creators now have the power to build
experiences driven by AI interactions and ship them into
production– all without coding.
Spline also offers AI Generation tools that integrate with their
comprehensive 3D editor, including features like 3D vector editing,
motion, interactive experiences, physics, particles, and much
more.
Since its inception, Spline has garnered praise from the design
community for its intuitive interface and tooling. The platform has
been adopted by leading companies spanning a range of sectors,
showcasing its versatility and potential to transform 3D design
workflows.
“We just rebranded Alloy, with Spline as part of our toolkit for
generating top-notch assets we can use across social media, landing
pages, videos, and more. I love how polished the 3D looks, not to
mention the interactive capabilities,” said Filipe Soares, Design
Lead at Alloy Integrations. “Spline came at the right time. I have
full control over the creative and implementation processes, and we
no longer need to rely on heavy tools like Cinema 4D or work
through time-consuming Three.js code. Sometimes, all we need is a
tool that solves our problems really fast without compromising
quality.”
As the demand for 3D content continues to grow across
industries, from e-commerce to gaming to spatial computing, Spline
is the leading platform for designers looking to create immersive,
interactive, production-ready 3D experiences.
To learn more about Spline’s latest features, check out this
video. Find out more about how Spline’s customers are using the
platform here.
About Spline
Spline was founded in 2020 by Alejandro Leon, a lifelong 3D
designer, as a web-based, no-code 3D design platform with real-time
collaboration. Spline is dedicated to revolutionizing 3D design by
making it accessible to anyone with a web browser. Spline has
enabled millions of designers to create interactive 3D experiences
and share scenes in any modern web browser while using a familiar
design process. To get started easily, Spline designers can use
templates from the Library, remix each other's work straight from
the in-app Spline Community, or use AI features to expand their
design possibilities. For more information about Spline and to try
the platform, visit https://spline.design/.
About Third Point Ventures:
Since 2000, Third Point Ventures, the venture capital arm of the
asset manager Third Point LLC, has pursued opportunities in
multistage investments in private companies with exceptional
management teams, sustainable technical advantages, optimal timing,
and in opportunities where risk/reward are in balance based on
disciplined selection, structure, and entry valuation. We bring
deep technical expertise, a strong network of relationships,
extensive go-to-market experience, and insights from our decades of
global public markets investing to add value to our partners
throughout their journey from idea to IPO and beyond. Information
about Third Point Ventures and our investments may be found at
https://www.thirdpointventures.com/.
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