
She learned 3D to make things, then spent years questioning why it was so difficult. With Womp, Gabriela Trueba is bringing the tools of fabrication closer to the people with the ideas.
An artist’s frustration became a browser-based 3D tool. Now Womp is following its users into the less forgiving business of making things you can hold.
Canoa is a browser-based design platform that gives interior designers and architects one connected workflow to collect inspiration, build data-rich mood boards, lay out furniture to scale, pull real product data, and generate FF&E schedules. Founded in 2019 by Federico Negro out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Canoa replaces the scattered stack of Revit, AutoCAD, Excel, and PowerPoint with a single AI-assisted canvas, while pushing the furniture industry toward circular, low-carbon practices.