Screen Grab illustrating the Occipital Structure Sensor courtesy of Made website.

Hi All,

Made raised a $9 million seed round for tech-enabled bathroom remodels, according to Crunchbase today (26 February 2020). (Crunchbase Profile of Made)

✓ Crunchbase News (26 February 2020) Made Renovation Raises $9M Seed For Tech-Enabled Bathroom Remodels

That's super-interesting for Matterport Service Providers because Made Renovations design consultants use the Occipital Structure Sensor for 3D renderings ("Using measurements from the digital scan, we create photorealistic 3D renders of your future bathroom using the same technology as movie studios," says the Made website.

Anytime someone is scanning - even if not with Matterport - that helps lift all boats.

Interestingly, the $9 million raise announced today (Wednesday, 26 February, 2020) is a seed round. I could imagine that as Made scales, it will scale to include entire house renovations where Matterport will be a better scanning solution for an entire house to generate a point cloud to convert to an SketchUp file for the designer. At that point, it will make sense for Made to outsource Matterport scanning at scale.

What are your thoughts about Made and the Occipital Structure Sensor?

By the way, for those that closely follow the We Get Around Network Forum, worth noting that GeoCV Co-Founder and CEO Anton Yakubenko - on hiatus for the duration of the Matterport versus GeoCV Lawsuit - is Occipital Vice President, 3D Capture. (So are the nearly two-dozen GeoCV computer vision engineers.)

Had Matterport bought - or invested in - GeoCV (instead of suing GeoCV), it's likely that Anton - and the GeoCV - now Occipital - team of computer vision engineering team – would be working with Matterport: not competing with Matterport.

Best,

Dan