Meshy raises $400M, largest AI-3D round yet
Meshy closed a $400M Series B at a $1.5B valuation, the largest funding round to date for AI-generated 3D content, with ARR growing roughly 12x year over year.
Meshy closed a Series B of nearly $400 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, the company announced, calling it the biggest check any AI-3D-focused startup has landed so far. The round drew participation from all of Meshy’s existing investors alongside new backers the company describes as a group of leading global investors, without naming a specific lead.
Founded by MIT PhD Ethan Hu, Meshy turns a single line of text or one reference image into a usable 3D model in about a minute, at roughly a dollar per model, and the company’s pitch is that the output now holds up under actual manufacturing and game-engine use, not just a nice render. The scale behind that pitch: registered users have passed 12 million, the platform has generated upward of 100 million models total, and annual recurring revenue is growing roughly 12x year over year as of this July. Customers span five of the world’s ten largest tech companies, gaming studios including Nexon, NetEase Games, and 37 Interactive Entertainment, 3D-printing brands like Bambu Lab and Creality, and enterprises such as Hugo Boss. Alongside the raise, Meshy shipped a 3D agent, one-click part-splitting for printing, faster geometry generation, and higher-resolution texturing.
What it means for operators
This round is a clear signal that AI-generated 3D has moved past demo-stage novelty into a real production pipeline for gaming and product design, the same trajectory image and video generation went through a year or two earlier. If your team still routes 3D asset requests to a specialist queue, the 12x revenue growth and 100-million-model volume here suggest it’s worth testing whether a generate-then-refine workflow can absorb the routine cases, freeing specialists for the work that still needs a human eye.