Kind Designs, a Miami-based climate resilience company, announced the close of a $10 million Pre-Series A round at a $70 million valuation, bringing the company’s total funding to date to $21.5 million. The company had set out to raise $5 million but drew nearly $20 million in investor interest, pushing it to double the round. The round was backed by Mark Cuban, NY Angels, TaMiami, former Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, and NBA forward Kyle Kuzma.
As coastal communities race to replace aging shoreline infrastructure with more resilient solutions, demand for Kind Designs’ 3D-printed Living Seawalls has accelerated. In a breakout year, the company has evolved from a residential seawall startup into a major commercial and government infrastructure company, generating $1 million in revenue in 2025 and securing $10 million in contracted revenue, a $175 million active pipeline, and expanded projects across municipalities, luxury hospitality, and federal defense applications, including a recently awarded $2 million U.S. Navy contract.
Using large-scale 3D-printing and ecological engineering, Kind Designs develops solutions that protect communities while improving water quality and restoring marine ecosystems, with a platform that extends beyond Living Seawalls to include Living Seawall Tiles, 3D-printed artificial reefs, and living shorelines for commercial, municipal, and defense projects. Recent contracts include Living Seawalls for the Fontainebleau, Pagani, and Ritz-Carlton in Miami Beach, along with completed municipal infrastructure projects in Miami Shores and Longboat Key. The company has also secured its first projects in New York City, Charleston, and Nassau, while advancing opportunities in California.
The company plans to use the new capital to accelerate expansion into new markets, including New York and California, triple production capacity at its seawall factory, support working capital needs for large-scale municipal and federal government projects, and expand its engineering and operations team. Government policy has begun to move in step with the technology, with Miami-Dade County updating seawall codes to provide expedited permitting and environmental mitigation exemptions for Kind Designs’ systems, and Florida Governor DeSantis signing SB302, which directs the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to create incentives for Living Seawall adoption.
KEY QUOTES:
“Most climate founders pitch you on saving the planet. Anya pitched me on an opportunity to disrupt a multi-billion-dollar coastal infrastructure market in a way that’s faster, cheaper, and also better for the environment.”
“Kind Designs continues to cement itself as a leading innovator in coastal resiliency and is a perfect reminder that you can both ‘do well’ and ‘do good’. This is why I wrote another check into the company.”
Mark Cuban, Investor
“The seawall industry is a multi-hundred-billion-dollar market that has never had a true technology company. We’re building one of America’s most important tech companies to put resiliency on the map as the next great industrial category.”
“We’re done building at the pace permission allows. The technology is proven. The demand is here. Now it’s about scaling a new generation of coastal infrastructure that protects America while making this country more beautiful.”
Anya Freeman, Founder and CEO, Kind Designs
