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LottieFiles and the business of a tiny moving heart
A little animation can create a surprisingly large amount of work. LottieFiles built a business around making that work disappear - from the first keyframe to the app in your hand.
SVGator and the art of skipping the handoff
A moving icon should not need a production committee. SVGator puts drawing, animation and web-ready exports in one browser tab - and makes the last step part of the design.
Spline makes 3D a team sport
A black cube on an email company’s website explains Spline’s appeal: designers can build something that moves, reacts, and actually ships. Now the company is inviting AI into the same file.
Blush lets you change the drawing without learning to draw
The illustration platform turns artists’ work into parts anyone can rearrange. Its real product is the distance between “I need a picture” and having one that fits.
Canoa
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.
Krea
Krea is a San Francisco-based generative-AI creative suite that lets designers, artists and brands generate, enhance and remix images, video and 3D in real time. Founded in 2022 by Victor Perez and Diego Rodriguez, the company unifies leading AI models behind a single, designer-friendly interface and reached a $500M valuation in 2025.