The company that put a full interior-design studio - floor plans, 3D, photorealistic rendering and walkthroughs - inside a single browser tab.
For years, the interior designer's toolkit looked like a compromise. You modeled a room in one program, exported it to a rendering engine, waited hours for the machine to finish, then carried the result into an image editor to fix the light. Each step needed a different license, a different skill, and usually a computer expensive enough to make a freelancer wince. Foyr's founder watched that friction up close and built a company around erasing it.
Foyr - stylized in lowercase, with a small square dot standing in for the leading letter - is a cloud-based interior design software company. Its flagship product, Foyr Neo, runs entirely in a web browser and folds the whole workflow into one place: draw a 2D floor plan, pull furniture from a library of more than 60,000 3D models, arrange a room, and generate photorealistic renders and 360-degree walkthroughs without owning a graphics workstation. The heavy computation happens in the cloud, which is the quiet trick at the center of the business. A modest laptop can produce visuals that once required a tower under the desk.
The company reports that more than 150,000 creators use the platform, a group that runs from design students and solo decorators to established firms and, on the enterprise side, property developers. That range is unusual. Most professional software picks a lane - either simple enough for hobbyists or powerful enough for pros. Foyr's bet is that the same tool can serve both if the complexity is hidden well enough.
Interior design has a workflow tax. Foyr's argument is that the tax - not the creativity - is what slows designers down.
Designers historically juggle a modeler, a separate rendering engine, and an image editor - each with its own file formats, licenses and learning curves.
Photorealistic rendering traditionally demands expensive, high-end machines, pricing out students and smaller studios before they start.
Renders that take hours or overnight stall the moment that matters most - showing a client something good enough to approve.
Foyr Neo covers the full arc of a design project, from a blank floor plan to a walkthrough a client can step inside.
The browser-based studio: 2D floor plans, 3D modeling, drag-and-drop furnishing from a 60,000+ model library, rendering up to 12K, 360-degree panoramas and interactive walkthroughs - no CAD background required.
Cloud- and AI-assisted rendering that produces photorealistic 4K visuals in minutes rather than hours, aimed squarely at the client-approval bottleneck.
Measurement tools, texture and material libraries, moodboards, design templates and presentation views that round out the day-to-day workflow.
Earlier VR and visualization work for real estate developers and design firms - the proptech roots that first attracted JLL as an investor.
Competitors are strong, but most ask designers to assemble a toolkit. Foyr's pitch is that the assembly itself is the pain.
SketchUp + V-Ray + Photoshop gives deep control but spreads the work across three apps, three licenses and a high-spec machine - powerful, but heavy.
One cloud tool handles plans, 3D, rendering and walkthroughs. Foyr trades some low-level control for speed, accessibility and a gentle learning curve.
Named alternatives: SketchUp, Planner 5D, Coohom, Cedreo, RoomSketcher, Homestyler, Floorplanner, HomeByMe, Live Home 3D.
Foyr's Series A was led by JLL, one of the world's largest real estate services firms - a signal about where interior-design tech is really heading.
Global real estate services firm that led the Series A and helped open proptech and developer channels for Foyr.
Backed the 2018 Series A extension as one of the first deals from a new fund, to help Foyr build a US sales presence.
Figures compiled from public reports (Inc42, JLL, The News Minute, Tracxn, Crunchbase). Employee count (~180) and revenue (~$3.5M) are third-party estimates and should be read as approximate.
Shailesh Goswami is not the obvious person to build interior-design software. He earned a B.Tech and M.Tech in Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology from IIT Delhi, added an MBA, and spent roughly sixteen years in the IT industry, including a stint as a senior director at Microsoft India before founding Foyr in 2014.
The through-line from enterprise software to sofas is a philosophy: good software hides its complexity. Foyr applies that lesson to a craft - interior design - where the tools had grown powerful but unfriendly.
Founder & CEO, Foyr • IIT Delhi • Ex-Microsoft India • Based between Singapore and Hyderabad. Reachable publicly at gosu@foyr.com.
A subscription SaaS business straddling B2C and B2B, wedged into the growing overlap between design tools and property technology.
Monthly/annual plans - roughly Basic ~$29, Standard ~$55, Premium ~$99 - plus custom enterprise deals, with rendering credits and library access bundled in.
Interior designers, firm owners, architects, contractors and students, alongside enterprise real estate developers.
Foyr rides the shift of rendering to the cloud, lowering the hardware barrier for professional visualization across three continents.
Foyr is a cloud-based interior design software company whose main product, Foyr Neo, lets people create 2D floor plans, 3D designs, photorealistic renders and virtual walkthroughs in a web browser.
Foyr was founded in 2014 by Shailesh Goswami, a former Microsoft director and IIT Delhi graduate, who serves as Founder & CEO.
Foyr Neo uses tiered subscriptions - roughly Basic at ~$29, Standard at ~$55 and Premium at ~$99 per month - plus custom enterprise plans. There is no permanent free plan.
Foyr Neo bundles floor planning, 3D modeling, a 60,000+ model library, rendering and walkthroughs into one cloud tool, avoiding the multi-app, high-hardware workflow of tools like SketchUp plus V-Ray.
Foyr has raised roughly $9M in total, including a Series A led by JLL and a $4.2M extension led by SRI Capital in 2018.
Sources: foyr.com, Inc42, JLL newsroom, The News Minute, Tracxn, Crunchbase, SoftwareSuggest, Capterra, Startup Terminal. Financial and headcount figures marked approximate are third-party estimates.