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December 19, 2013 06:05 pm GMT

Floored Raises $5.26 Million To Make More 3D Scans For Real Estate With Its Kinect-Like Sensors

Floored screenshot 2New York-based startup Floored just closed a $5.26 million Series A funding round led by RRE Ventures to fuel its business. This round seems to be all about growth and going to the next level. Greycroft Partners also invested in today’s round, as well as existing investors Lehrer Ventures, Sigma Ventures and Felicis Ventures. Previously, the company had raised $1 million in seed funding. As a reminder, Floored is a Disrupt NY 2013 finalist. It scans office spaces, apartments and houses using 3D camera technology and proprietary software to build customizable 3D models for real estate purposes. But the real game-changer lies in the use of 3D. For example, after an office space is scanned, you can easily move around and add furniture in real-time to realize whether the space would be a good fit for your company. Or you could even work with Floored to tear down a wall, add a counter and many other things. To scan interior spaces, Floored partners with Matterport, a company that builds 3D scanners using Primesense’s cameras — Primesense manufactures the sensor inside the Kinect. Scanning a space is a matter of hours. After that, Floored cleans up the data in-house and renders the result in real time for the web and its iPad app — the entire process takes a couple of days. Here’s the result in WebGL with Floored’s new graphics engine (the web viewer was just updated), followed by the upcoming version with new features (full screen view, map),: For a real estate company, using these scans is as easy as embedding a YouTube video on your website. The new funding will allow the company to grow its engineering team and probably be able to make more 3D scans — existing customers include Hines, Taconic Investment Partners, Related Companies, CBRE and Cushman Wakefield. Having the best proprietary technology and locking the market are the two key elements to Floored’s success. The new influx of money should help the company get there.

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