{ "data": null, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/david-novotny/", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/david-novotny/index.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/david-novotny/index.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/david-novotny/index.min.md" }, "markdown": "Co-founder.\n\nDavid Novotny co-founded SpAItial. He was previously at Meta, where he led work on 3D asset generation and digital twinning.\n\n## What David builds\n\n- [SpAItial API (Echo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/spaitial.md), graded C, 56.7/100, in 3D worlds. SpAItial's developer API and hosted MCP server for its Echo world models, which turn a text prompt, image or 360-degree panorama into an explorable 3D Gaussian-splat world with mesh and floor-plan exports. Echo-3 capture reconstruction is enterprise-only. Co-founder, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Luke Rogers](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/luke-rogers/), Co-founder\n- [Matthias Niessner](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/matthias-niessner/), Co-founder and CEO\n- [Ricardo Martin-Brualla](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ricardo-martin-brualla/), Co-founder\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Earlybird](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/earlybird/)\n- [Speedinvest](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/speedinvest/)\n- [Robin Rombach](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/robin-rombach/)\n- [Victor Riparbelli](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/victor-riparbelli/)\n- [Steffen Tjerrild](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/steffen-tjerrild/)\n- [Christian Stiebner](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/christian-stiebner/)\n- [Edward Grefenstette](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/edward-grefenstette/)\n- [Maximilian Odendahl](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/maximilian-odendahl/)\n- [Jon Barron](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jon-barron/)\n- [Rahul Garg](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/rahul-garg/)\n- [Sergej Epp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sergej-epp/)\n- [Elias Schneider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/elias-schneider/)\n- [Paul Whitehead](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/paul-whitehead/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is David Novotny?\n\nDavid Novotny co-founded SpAItial. He was previously at Meta, where he led work on 3D asset generation and digital twinning.\n\n### What does SpAItial Ltd make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists SpAItial API (Echo) from SpAItial Ltd. SpAItial's developer API and hosted MCP server for its Echo world models, which turn a text prompt, image or 360-degree panorama into an explorable 3D Gaussian-splat world with mesh and floor-plan exports. Echo-3 capture reconstruction is enterprise-only.\n\n### Who has invested in SpAItial Ltd?\n\nThe sources our research read name Earlybird, Speedinvest, Robin Rombach, Victor Riparbelli, Steffen Tjerrild, Christian Stiebner, Edward Grefenstette, Maximilian Odendahl, Jon Barron, Rahul Garg, Sergej Epp, Elias Schneider and Paul Whitehead.\n\n### How are David's tools graded?\n\nSpAItial API (Echo) is graded C, 56.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://spaitial.ai/blog/announcing-spaitial\n- https://tech.eu/2025/05/27/spaitial-emerges-from-stealth-with-13m-seed-for-ai-native-3d-applications/\n- https://tech.eu/2026/04/16/we-are-where-chatgpt-was-five-years-ago-says-european-3d-ai-foundation-model-startup-boss/\n- https://www.niessnerlab.org/\n- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/15994344/officers\n- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/15994344\n- https://spaitial.ai/about\n- https://spaitial.ai/blog/echo-3-release\n- https://spaitial.ai/support\n- https://spaitial.ai/security\n- https://spaitial.ai/terms\n- https://docs.spaitial.ai/llms-full.txt\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. 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