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Zoo

A modern CAD platform built from a new kernel up.

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What they build

The product

Zoo (formerly KittyCAD) builds Zoo Design Studio along with its own CAD kernel, programming language, and ML model. The platform includes Text-to-CAD for generating 3D models from natural language, plus APIs that other hardware design tools can build on top of.

Why it matters

The thesis

CAD software is one of the deepest moats in the legacy industrial stack — and one of the biggest blockers to new hardware companies, because the existing tools are slow, expensive, and built for the 1990s. A modern, open-API CAD platform is foundational infrastructure for every reindustrialization startup downstream.

Source material

Evidence ledger

  • website · 2026-05-28

    Zoo identifies as a reindustrialization company.

    https://zoo.dev
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