Company

SpAItial

Startup building spatial foundation models that generate and reconstruct 3D worlds.

HQ: Munich, Germany
Status: Private

Funding

$13.0M

Overview

Startup building spatial foundation models that generate and reconstruct 3D worlds. Its Echo-3 model turns iPhone captures into metric-scale 3D scenes, offered through an iOS app and, for enterprise customers, an API.

Verified record

Verified deployments: None on file
Active incidents: None on file

Key facts

Echo-3 world model (company-stated, Oct 2026)

Oct 27 2026: turns a few minutes of iPhone capture into a metric-scale Gaussian splat 3D scene and fills in regions the camera missed. Launched with an iOS app; Android coming.

Echo-3 enterprise API (company-stated, Oct 2026)

Echo-3 will be offered through an API for enterprise customers, pitched for real estate visualization, simulation inputs and scene understanding by AI agents.

Model lineage (company-stated)

Echo-2 (Apr 2026) turned a single photo or panorama into an explorable 3D world, and Echo-3 reconstructs real spaces from phone captures.

Data & sources

News coverage

Web sources

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Relationships

EEarlybird Venture CapitalInvestor SSpeedinvestInvestor

Current leadership (1)

Matthias Niessner Co-founder and CEOsecondary-verified

Founders (4)

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Safety record

No incidents on record for SpAItial.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →

Mentioned on (3)

Registry pages whose text names SpAItial.

People (3)

David Novotny, Ricardo Martin-Brualla, Luke Rogers

Financial state

Total funding: $13.0M

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Funding rounds (1)

Seed2025-05-26
$13M
Investors: Earlybird Venture Capital (lead), Speedinvest (follow)

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Recent activity

Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.

Record createdOct 28, 2026
Added to the verified registry

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Sources (6)

https://spaitial.ai/blog/echo-3-release · 2026-10-27
https://spaitial.ai/echo-3 · 2026-10-27
https://radiancefields.com/spaitial-echo-3-turns-iphone-scans-into-3d-worlds · 2026-10-27
https://spaitial.ai/blog/announcing-spaitial · 2025-05-26
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/26/one-of-europes-top-ai-researchers-raised-a-13m-seed-to-crack-the-holy-grail-of-models/ · 2025-05-26
https://x.com/robotsdigest/status/2115197458888405288 · 2026-10-27

Common questions

What is SpAItial?

What does SpAItial make?

SpAItial has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. SpAItial builds robot foundation models or autonomy software.

Is SpAItial publicly traded?

No. SpAItial is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.

Who is the CEO of SpAItial?

Matthias Niessner is the ceo of SpAItial, per the DEPLOY registry.

How can I invest in SpAItial?

SpAItial is a private company; its shares are not available on public markets, so retail investors cannot buy the stock today. It has raised $13M in disclosed funding.

Where is SpAItial headquartered?

SpAItial is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

How much funding has SpAItial raised?

SpAItial has raised approximately $13M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

Who owns SpAItial?

SpAItial is privately held and venture-backed ($13M raised); ownership sits with its founders and private investors.

Is SpAItial a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, SpAItial ranks in roughly the top 22% of companies tracked by the registry.

Is SpAItial safe?

SpAItial has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.

Methodology: Verified · 6 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-31

Verification posture

Verified

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-10-31

Sources by quality tier

5: unclassified; Unclassified source
1: secondary-industry-publication; Industry publication

The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.