Kind Designs has raised a $10m Pre-Series A financing round at a valuation of $70m as it looks to scale its 3D printed Living Seawalls offering.
It brings the company's total funding to date to $21.5m.
The Miami-based climate resilience company says that demand for its 3D printed Living Seawalls has accelerated as coastal communities 'race to replace ageing shoreline infrastructure with more resilient solutions.'
This year, Kind Designs is said to have generated $10m in contracted revenue, a 10x increase on the whole of 2025. It also says it has built out a $175 million active pipeline and expanded projects across municipalities, luxury hospitality and federal defence applications, including a recently awarded $2 million U.S. Navy contract.
“The seawall industry is a multi-hundred-billion-dollar market that has never had a true technology company,” said Anya Freeman, founder and CEO of Kind Designs. “We're building one of America's most important tech companies to put resiliency on the map as the next great industrial category.”
NBA forward Kyle Kuzma joined the round alongside returning investors Mark Cuban and former Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, who have each backed the company across multiple rounds.
"Most climate founders pitch you on saving the planet. Anya pitched me on an opportunity to disrupt a multi-billion-dollar coastal infrastructure market in a way that’s faster, cheaper, and also better for the environment,” added Cuban. “Kind Designs continues to cement itself as a leading innovator in coastal resiliency and is a perfect reminder that you can both ‘do well’ and ‘do good’. This is why I wrote another check into the company."
With large-scale 3D printing and ecological engineering, Kind Designs is vying to create seawalls that hold back water, improve water quality, and restore marine ecosystems. Its platform now extends beyond Living Seawalls to also include Living Seawall Tiles, 3D-Printed Artificial Reefs and Living Shorelines for large-scale commercial, municipal and defence projects.
The company plans to use the new capital to:
- Accelerate expansion into new markets including New York and California
- Triple production capacity at their seawall factory by increasing robot inventory and scaling production lines
- Support working capital needs for large-scale municipal and federal government projects
- Expand the engineering and operations team
Recent contracts include Living Seawalls for the Fontainebleau, Pagani and Ritz-Carlton in Miami Beach and completed municipal infrastructure projects in Miami Shores and Longboat Key. Beyond Florida, Kind Designs recently secured its first projects in New York City, Charleston and Nassau while advancing opportunities in California tied to coastal erosion and rail protection infrastructure.
Additionally, over the past year, Miami-Dade County updated seawall codes to provide expedited permitting and environmental mitigation exemptions for Kind Designs’ systems, while Governor DeSantis signed SB302 directing the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to create incentives for Living Seawall adoption at the State level.
