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Feb 2026LinkedIn lists co-founder Roth Vann as a recent departure; he left in Feb 2026.
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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Camfer is a San Francisco-based YC Summer 2024 startup building an AI CAD tool / “AI mechanical engineer” for SolidWorks that turns text and images into parametric CAD and helps engineers design end-to-end. Public directories conflict on some metrics, but the company’s newer self-reported materials point to a pre-seed $4.8M round and a very small in-person team.
Primary product
AI CAD tool for SolidWorks
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI CAD / machine design software
Offices
San Francisco, CA
Business model
B2B SaaS
CAD software plugin/add-on
free beta / waitlist
Funding
Stage
pre-seed
Total raised
$4.8M
Latest round
Pre-Seed · Sep 2024
Latest amount
$4.8M
Sep 2024 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Founders
Co-Founder
Work & culture
Small, talent-dense, first-principles team; values empirical research, high-conviction bets, and spirited debate. Hiring materials emphasize founder review, a paid in-office work trial, and that advanced degrees are not explicitly required; the office is described as having a private patio, espresso machine, and stocked kitchen.
Work style
Onsite
Compensation
No public salary bands were found. Hiring appears to use founder review, interviews, and a paid in-office work trial rather than a published compensation grid.
Product & market
Pricing
Free beta / invite-only onboarding; no public pricing published
Differentiators
- —Native SolidWorks integration
- —Text + image to CAD
- —Feature-tree / CAD-context querying
- —End-to-end design, test, and iterate workflows
- —AI mechanical engineer positioning
- —Windows-only focused beta
- —Chat-history-aware camfy 2.0 and lazy parsing
Technology
Python
Impact
Astro
Cloudflare
SolidWorks
Customers
mechanical engineers
SolidWorks users
hardware/product design teams
students
hobbyists
professionals
Competitors
SOLIDWORKS
Autodesk Fusion
Forge-CAD
Leo AI
CADvisor
KittyCAD
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$750K-$1M ARR (public estimates conflict)
Estimated monthly visits
2.5K
Signals & risks
Latest news
camfer Blog · Nov 2024
Camfer says it went from 0 lines of code to a SOTA text-to-CAD product and $4.8M in funding within five months of inception.
camfer Blog
Describes Camfer’s use of OpenAI o1 to run simulations and orchestrate multi-part designs, and says the demo was showcased at OpenAI DevDay 2024.
camfer Blog
Explains Camfer’s CAD format and why it differs from simpler sketch-and-extrude approaches, including support for chamfers, fillets, and geometric references.
camfer Blog
Team post on scaling self-attention with fixed-length latent sequences.
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