Founder of a listed tool
Matthias Niessner
Co-founder and CEO, named behind the SpAItial API (Echo) listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Matthias builds
SpAItial API (Echo) C · 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 and CEO, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- David Novotny Co-founder
- Luke Rogers Co-founder
- Ricardo Martin-Brualla Co-founder
Backed by
Earlybird Speedinvest Robin Rombach Victor Riparbelli Steffen Tjerrild Christian Stiebner Edward Grefenstette Maximilian Odendahl Jon Barron Rahul Garg Sergej Epp Elias Schneider Paul Whitehead
Questions
Who is Matthias Niessner?
Matthias Niessner co-founded SpAItial and leads it as CEO. He is a professor at the Technical University of Munich, where SpAItial started as a spin-off of his visual computing and AI lab, and he co-founded Synthesia. He was previously at Stanford. He is a director of SpAItial Ltd.
What does SpAItial Ltd make?
Anchor 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.
Who has invested in SpAItial Ltd?
The 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.
How are Matthias's tools graded?
SpAItial API (Echo) is graded C, 56.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (12)
- https://spaitial.ai/blog/announcing-spaitial
- https://tech.eu/2025/05/27/spaitial-emerges-from-stealth-with-13m-seed-for-ai-native-3d-applications/
- https://tech.eu/2026/04/16/we-are-where-chatgpt-was-five-years-ago-says-european-3d-ai-foundation-model-startup-boss/
- https://www.niessnerlab.org/
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/15994344/officers
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/15994344
- https://spaitial.ai/about
- https://spaitial.ai/blog/echo-3-release
- https://spaitial.ai/support
- https://spaitial.ai/security
- https://spaitial.ai/terms
- https://docs.spaitial.ai/llms-full.txt
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