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Oct 30, 2026
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DREAM has emerged from stealth with $17 million in seed funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz alongside other backers including SV Angel, XYZ, and Zig Capital.
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The startup aims to replace cumbersome, outdated AEC tools like Autodesk's AutoCAD and Revit.
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If you sit next to an architect or a structural engineer, you will notice that they are still drawing every piece of their designs part by part on legacy software, Bather says.
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AI really plays no role in that equation.
Bob BoutelierHOST
We later had two of those IBM PCs in our lab.
Bob BoutelierHOST
AutoCAD came on one 360K floppy disk.
Bob BoutelierHOST
Its automation tool, AutoLisp, came on a second.
Bob BoutelierHOST
PCAD, the electronics CAD program, came on another disk.
Stephanie HuntGUEST
I'm like, well, I know if I was doing this for my clients, what I would pick, but I have no idea like even what they like and bringing things back and sort of being like, here you go and then like them really you know um casting off many things that i picked and then bringing a wallpaper that i picked and going like well i mean maybe this could work and then that ended up being the wallpaper chosen and having such this sense on the inside of like ah i picked that wallpaper
Jonathan JacobsHOST
So tell me for a second about like the correlation between some of the things you learned in school and how it's being applied here because you did say that, you know, about drafting and this is at a time also before like AutoCAD ever existed.
Jonathan JacobsHOST
Like SketchUp, Revit, none of these things existed.
Jonathan JacobsHOST
So what were you drafting on? Were you drafting on my
Sasha CrottySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If we don't make our data accessible, then what is the incentive for all of those different organizations to make their data accessible? And from that perspective, like that openness of ecosystem is really, really important for our success as Autodesk.
Sasha CrottySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
By the way, it always has been, because if you look at what has made AutoCAD successful, what has made Revit successful, they're the APIs, right? Because of the scale and the things that you can actually build on top of it.
Sasha CrottySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So it's always been part of our DNA to make our information accessible because it actually builds an ecosystem that is so much more powerful than any one company can build individually.
Sasha CrottySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's why we continue to invest in the APIs, that's why we invest in structured data.
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Evan TroxelHOST
Are the companies that created these formats the ones benefiting?
Campbell YuleSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And the industry wasn't advanced enough to have a comprehensive format that vendors could just say, oh, we'll just use that format.
Campbell YuleSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And obviously, DWG became a de facto from the AutoCAD side of view.
Campbell YuleSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And so then players like Revit, not Revit, but ArchiCAD and Vectorworks needed to write DWG back in the day as the original transfer mechanism.
Anshuman SinghGUEST
So you have to push yourself.
Anshuman SinghGUEST
Around that time, AutoCAD, the famous computer drafting company, came up with a project called Dreamcatcher.
Anshuman SinghGUEST
And what they did was they floated the idea of generative design.
Anshuman SinghGUEST
What it did that if you gave it a constraint, it'll produce a design output for you.
Steve MegatronHOST
And so as everybody remembers, probably from the last episode, if they listened, there was a guy that created art craft studio or art craft, the programming.
Steve MegatronHOST
And, um, His entire studio consists of basically knockoffs of the Adobe suite and the Microsoft suite and like Figma and AutoCAD and like Pro Tools.
Steve MegatronHOST
So I got involved with this Discord group.
Steve MegatronHOST
Probably two weeks ago.
Jessica MarchantGUEST
The assistant recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in interior design.
Jessica MarchantGUEST
So she knows how to use AutoCAD, but she's never worked on a job site.
Jessica MarchantGUEST
So in those situations, I am doing consulting and I started, you know, working with the assistant on.
Jessica MarchantGUEST
Let me tell you some some things that happen on site.
LynnGUEST
It's almost a career program.
LynnGUEST
It's like learning how to run AutoCAD.
LynnGUEST
It does so many things that you really have to play with it to figure out how to get it to do what you want it to do.
LynnGUEST
But CTR2, really what I've kind of gone back to now is, especially with Marcus's apps on the Apple devices, Apple's done quite a bit for accessibility on their devices now for hands that have slight impairments.
Wes RothHOST
GDP value uses actual projects that you would complete if you were working in that field, right? So financial investment analyst might be asked to create a competitor landscape for last mile delivery.
Wes RothHOST
A manufacturing engineer might design a 3D model of cable reel stand for assembly line, right? With all of the list of components, with the sketches, 3D drawings, whatever, AutoCAD schematics, whatever you're using for that.
Wes RothHOST
So this to me is a lot more like hands-on than just, you know, knowing that you need 45 out of 100 points on the reading comprehension scale to
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qualify.
LevelCapHOST
Since that, all of...
LevelCapHOST
They've made an Autodesk clone, an AutoCAD clone, taking Autodesk's proprietary software, cloning it on the Internet and being like, why would you pay money for this company's software when I've made an open source version for everybody else to use for free by copying their software, essentially.
Matimi0HOST
Right,
LevelCapHOST
right.
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