Letter to the Community: It's All About You, The Engineer - GrabCAD Blog

I have some exciting news to share with the GrabCAD community. Yesterday, we secured additional funding from Charles River Ventures, David Sacks, and our previous investors. The new investment, 8.15M dollars, brings our total funding to 14M dollars. This is such a long way from where we began, but we are still engineers building tools for engineers. We started GrabCAD to change the way you connect. Our team built an open source library where people discover, share, and get feedback for their designs. Our mission was driven by the belief that when you create an open environment for engineers to collaborate, the results are better. Close to 300K engineers agree and find GrabCAD useful. They all contribute in different ways and we love that: uploading a project, adding a tutorial, giving feedback, or downloading a model they need. Earlier this year many of you asked for more. Collaboration can happen in two ways - publicly and privately - and our community said they need a private version of GrabCAD, too, where they can work closely with their clients, team, and manufacturers. We listened and we are working hard to deliver for you. There are already companies using our tool to securely collaborate through our private, beta release. These […]