# Bild

> Bild is a San Francisco cloud PDM/PLM platform that moves hardware design collaboration off email, spreadsheets, and shared drives and into the browser. Founded in 2021 by ex-Apple engineering program manager Pradyut Paul, it gives mechanical and hardware teams version control, check-in/check-out, bill-of-materials, change orders, and secure supplier sharing across multiple CAD formats, plus an AI suite for diffing and searching designs.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Pradyut Paul (Co-founder & CEO), Avinash Kunaparaju (Co-founder & CTO), Derrick Choi (Co-founder & COO)
- **Team size:** ~24 employees
- **Products:** Cloud PDM, Cloud PLM, Bill of Materials (BOM) Management, Supplier & Vendor Collaboration, Meru AI Suite
- **Notable:** Raised $3M seed in 2021 from a top-tier syndicate (Tola, Lux, Shasta, Techstars)., Grew revenue roughly 10x in 2023., Achieved SOC2 Type 2 certification with ITAR-compliant deployment options.

## Products & services

- **Cloud PDM** — Cloud-based product data management for CAD files with check-in/check-out version control, cloud storage, multi-CAD support, and design history and rollback.
- **Cloud PLM** — Product lifecycle management for tracking product information across lifecycle states, engineering change orders, approvals, and data cards.
- **Bill of Materials (BOM) Management** — Database-driven, connected BOM generation kept in sync with design data.
- **Supplier & Vendor Collaboration** — A controlled portal for securely sharing versioned designs with suppliers and receiving DFM feedback and documents in one place.
- **Meru AI Suite** — AI tools for engineering data: Delta (CAD difference analyzer), Echo (semantic search across designs), and Sigma (automated reporting, announced as coming soon).
- **Integrations & Open API** — Bi-directional API integration plus support for Altium, AutoCAD, Creo, SolidWorks, Siemens NX, Inventor, Solid Edge, Autodesk Revit, STEP and STL, and a PLM bridge to Propel.

## Achievements

- Raised $3M seed in 2021 from a top-tier syndicate (Tola, Lux, Shasta, Techstars).
- Grew revenue roughly 10x in 2023.
- Achieved SOC2 Type 2 certification with ITAR-compliant deployment options.
- Launched the Meru AI suite for CAD diffing and semantic design search.
- Signed marquee hardware customers including Simplehuman, UPPAbaby and Lunar Outpost.
- Built out-of-the-box PDM-to-PLM integration with Propel Software.

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Announced integration partnership with Propel Software connecting cloud PDM and PLM.
- **2023-10** — Raised a ~$1.52M seed extension.
- **2023-12** — Reported roughly 10x revenue growth for the year and expanded the team past a dozen with a new sales division targeting Fortune 500 accounts.
- **2021-10** — Emerged from private beta and announced $3M seed funding.

## Links

- Website: https://www.getbild.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/getbild

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