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From MIT research to $1.5B unicorn: Ethan Hu’s Meshy raises $400M for AI-powered 3D creation

Ethan Hu's Meshy, an AI-powered 3D creation startup spun out of MIT research, raised $400 million in funding, valuing the company at $1.5 billion. The company aims to reduce the time and expertise needed to build 3D models from days to minutes using artificial intelligence.

read1 min views1 publishedJul 24, 2026

Building a usable 3D model has traditionally meant days of specialist software work, an experienced designer, and a…

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techfundingnews.com — original article Ex-VC Jen Phan lands $15M for Passionfroot: Is Anthropic’s backer funding AI’s distribution layer? Berlin’s telli raises $15M seed to put AI agents in charge of customer ops, backed by redalpine, Cherry, and YC Arrakis raises $38M from Blossom and Accel, with Datadog CEO and OpenAI exec joining the round
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