Hypar – a cloud-based design automation platform for buildings – recently announced a $5.5 million Series A round led by Brick & Mortar Ventures with participation from Building Ventures. And with support for every phase of project realization, Hypar delivers the world’s building expertise to realize better buildings and help teams make better decisions, faster.
Hypar’s founders, Ian Keough and Anthony Hauck have decades of experience in creating digital building solutions. And Ian developed goBIM, the first BIM visualization application for iOS – which was later acquired by Vela Systems. Then he 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 Ian, he led the team that created Generative Design for Revit.
After leaving Autodesk in late 2017 and following conversations with hundreds of design and construction firms, Keough and Hauck recognized a need for access to repeatable, scalable building expertise.
Along with 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 round will be used to expand platform features, product lines, and go-to-market teams.
KEY QUOTES:
“BIM has been a buzzword in the construction industry for decades now. 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.”
— Alice Leung, VP of Platform & Product Strategy at Brick & Mortar Ventures
“For centuries, buildings have started on a blank page, as if no one had ever built anything before. We automate best practices so that projects don’t have to start from scratch.”
“Quickly visualizing design options is just the beginning. By offering rapid feedback on design performance, our customers will be able to arrive at critical decisions ahead of their competition.”
— Anthony Hauck
“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.”
“With so much to change in the building industry, we’re delighted to continue our partnership with the Building Ventures team, and to welcome Brick & Mortar Ventures on board as investors. Both firms bring critical industry insights that support Hypar’s vision of better buildings, faster.”
— Ian Keough
“From the outset, Ian and Anthony’s mission has been clear: to build the industry’s first open-source and cloud-native generative design platform. And now dozens of leading designers, builders, and suppliers use the platform to productize their building configuration and construction offerings. Having recruited an all-star team of engineers and cultivated a global network of computational designers to the growing Hypar community, Hypar is now poised for its next phase of growth.”
— Allen Preger, Partner at Building Ventures
“Aliaxis believes the Hypar platform is the future of collaborative design and engineering, where highly automated processes complement human experiences towards a better and faster design.”
— Bas Nolta, Global Manager Engineering Services Platform at Aliaxis
“After evaluating many other AEC platforms, we worked with Hypar because we saw it had the most potential to accelerate our workplace planning business. As the Hypar team helps us develop our custom workplace application, we’re looking to apply Hypar to our healthcare and data center businesses.”
— Jayanth Gopal, Director at Adrianse
