Kind Designs raises $10M pre-Series A at $70M valuation to scale 3D-printed Living Seawalls
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Originally reported by 3Druck
Miami-based Kind Designs closed a $10 million pre-Series A round, valuing the company at $70 million and lifting total funding to $21.5 million. Mark Cuban participated again alongside other backers. The capital will triple factory capacity, add robotic large-format printers, open additional production lines, and fund expansion into New York and California along with technical and operations hiring.
Kind Designs prints Living Seawalls with robotic large-format 3D printers, producing structured surfaces and cavities that give marine organisms settlement area while the same elements perform conventional wave, flood, and erosion-barrier duty. That combination differentiates the product from smooth, formwork-cast concrete seawalls, which offer no built-in ecological function. The catalog has grown from full seawalls to retrofit wall panels, artificial reefs, and shoreline stabilization pieces, serving residential, hospitality, municipal, and military buyers. Digital fabrication lets the company adjust dimensions and surface geometry directly in the model rather than commissioning new molds, a workflow advantage in a coastal-infrastructure market the company describes as lacking an established technology vendor.
Revenue moved from $1 million in 2025 to $10 million in contracted revenue, against an active project pipeline the company puts at $175 million, including a $2 million US Navy contract and municipal projects in New York City, Charleston, and Nassau. CEO Anya Freeman framed the current constraint as permitting throughput rather than print technology readiness. The near-term test is whether tripled factory capacity and new coastal-market sites can convert that pipeline into delivered, code-approved installations at the pace contracts require.
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