Leo AI raises $9.7M to build the world’s first AI for Mechanical Engineering
Leo AI raises $9.7M to build the world’s first AI for Mechanical Engineering
Leo AI raises $9.7M to build the world’s first AI for Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Maor Farid, Co-Founder & CEO at Leo AI
Leo AI completes a $5M seed round led by Flint Capital, bringing total funding to $9.7M to date, to build the world's first domain-specific AI for Mechanical Engineers, after being used by over 20,000 engineers around the world and reaching substantial revenue milestones in the first month of monetization.
Founded by MechEs for MechEs to solve frustrations the co-founders experienced firsthand
Leo AI was founded by Dr. Maor Farid (CEO) and Moti Moravia (CTO) - two mechanical engineers who met at 18 in the Israeli military’s Brakim program- the elite program to train the leading mechanical engineers for the Israeli defense industry. Despite academic and professional success, both were deeply frustrated when they entered the field: instead of building innovative products, they found themselves wasting hours hunting for parts in outdated systems, digging through messy documentation, and repeating manual tasks.
After pivoting into AI - Maor through a postdoc at MIT and Moti in the defence industry - they reunited to tackle the problems they lived firsthand.
“Product design is the embodiment of human creativity.” says Maor. “It’s a natural urge as old as human intelligence itself, bursting within us when we are kids building spaceships from wooden blocks in daycare. MEs are talented people who came to our profession in the name of this urge to build and innovate, but eventually, we find ourselves in front of software that hasn’t seen innovation since the 1990s.”
“Despite what Hollywood and Ironman teach us to believe, we don’t believe that AI will take away the fun part of the creation process—the creative, innovative parts of turning ideas into a product. We believe the opposite—that AI should and will take over the tedious manual tasks of finding parts on PLM, looking for information in piles of documents, and running mundane calculations.”
Their mission is to allow engineers to focus on what they do best and love the most- build great products. Push the limits of human creativity and innovation to the maximum.
“It took 46 years to bring electric cars from concept to mass adoption, and over a decade to develop the James Webb Space Telescope - imagine how much of that time was spent writing documentation, redoing revisions, chasing approvals, and correcting avoidable mistakes.”
“We are proud to build not only the first AI for MEs but also the most boring, unsexy AI you can think of - the opposite of Ironman’s Jarvis. We don’t turn ideas into robots; we learn from your piles of data on your PLM and local directories, both CAD and text, integrate into your CAD, and find answers to your technical questions, solve engineering problems, run calculations, find parts, and generate 3D concepts. All of this is based on your best practices, with context, accuracy, integrated into your workflow, and 100% safe.”
While GPT and other generic AI tools can process only text, train on unreliable sources like Reddit posts, and are not connected to engineering data sources (PDM) or engineers' workflows (CAD)—which leads to a 46% error rate when answering engineering questions - Leo AI built a proprietary AI model that can understand CAD, trained only on reliable engineering sources (1M+ engineering books, professional articles, standards) and the organization’s PDM, achieving a 96% accuracy rate.
“Leo is the first AI for Mechanical Engineering. It’s like a super engineer who has read all the text and CAD documents in your PDM, looks at your SolidWorks, stands behind your engineers, and helps them make better decisions faster.”
“Imagine ChatGPT that understands CAD and is connected to your company’s data,” says Maor.
Bertrand Sicot, the former CEO of SolidWorks and Deputy CEO of Visiativ—one of the largest distributors of engineering software in the world: “Leo is the first AI applied to engineering, and engineers are dying for this progress. I believe it’s going to change the way people are developing products by massively impacting the engineering process.”
“Before we started Leo, it felt like all the other professions had their own AI - lawyers have Harvey, developers have Cursor - what about MEs?! Today we finally have our own AI.”
With the ~5 hours we save per engineer every week, just imagine how many groundbreaking inventions will be born in the next 5 years. New medical devices will save lives sooner than we thought. Next-gen electric drivetrains will reduce emissions faster. Breakthroughs in sustainable packaging and energy-efficient manufacturing will reshape how we consume and build. By freeing engineers from tedious work, we’re accelerating the path from idea to impact.
Exciting days to be alive.
Leo AI’s seed round was oversubscribed and followed by TechAviv, 2 Lanterns VC, OurCrowd, Mento VC, and strategic investors like the VP of Research and Engineering at Google, Bertrand Sicot (the former CEO of SolidWorks), the CEO of one of the largest distributors of software for mechanical engineering, and more. Trusted by thousands of MEs in leading companies like Scania, HP, Mobileye, and more. Leo is distributed by VARs (value-added resellers) in the UK, USA, India, Benelux, France, Germany, Poland, and Israel.
Leo AI completes a $5M seed round led by Flint Capital, bringing total funding to $9.7M to date, to build the world's first domain-specific AI for Mechanical Engineers, after being used by over 20,000 engineers around the world and reaching substantial revenue milestones in the first month of monetization.
Founded by MechEs for MechEs to solve frustrations the co-founders experienced firsthand
Leo AI was founded by Dr. Maor Farid (CEO) and Moti Moravia (CTO) - two mechanical engineers who met at 18 in the Israeli military’s Brakim program- the elite program to train the leading mechanical engineers for the Israeli defense industry. Despite academic and professional success, both were deeply frustrated when they entered the field: instead of building innovative products, they found themselves wasting hours hunting for parts in outdated systems, digging through messy documentation, and repeating manual tasks.
After pivoting into AI - Maor through a postdoc at MIT and Moti in the defence industry - they reunited to tackle the problems they lived firsthand.
“Product design is the embodiment of human creativity.” says Maor. “It’s a natural urge as old as human intelligence itself, bursting within us when we are kids building spaceships from wooden blocks in daycare. MEs are talented people who came to our profession in the name of this urge to build and innovate, but eventually, we find ourselves in front of software that hasn’t seen innovation since the 1990s.”
“Despite what Hollywood and Ironman teach us to believe, we don’t believe that AI will take away the fun part of the creation process—the creative, innovative parts of turning ideas into a product. We believe the opposite—that AI should and will take over the tedious manual tasks of finding parts on PLM, looking for information in piles of documents, and running mundane calculations.”
Their mission is to allow engineers to focus on what they do best and love the most- build great products. Push the limits of human creativity and innovation to the maximum.
“It took 46 years to bring electric cars from concept to mass adoption, and over a decade to develop the James Webb Space Telescope - imagine how much of that time was spent writing documentation, redoing revisions, chasing approvals, and correcting avoidable mistakes.”
“We are proud to build not only the first AI for MEs but also the most boring, unsexy AI you can think of - the opposite of Ironman’s Jarvis. We don’t turn ideas into robots; we learn from your piles of data on your PLM and local directories, both CAD and text, integrate into your CAD, and find answers to your technical questions, solve engineering problems, run calculations, find parts, and generate 3D concepts. All of this is based on your best practices, with context, accuracy, integrated into your workflow, and 100% safe.”
While GPT and other generic AI tools can process only text, train on unreliable sources like Reddit posts, and are not connected to engineering data sources (PDM) or engineers' workflows (CAD)—which leads to a 46% error rate when answering engineering questions - Leo AI built a proprietary AI model that can understand CAD, trained only on reliable engineering sources (1M+ engineering books, professional articles, standards) and the organization’s PDM, achieving a 96% accuracy rate.
“Leo is the first AI for Mechanical Engineering. It’s like a super engineer who has read all the text and CAD documents in your PDM, looks at your SolidWorks, stands behind your engineers, and helps them make better decisions faster.”
“Imagine ChatGPT that understands CAD and is connected to your company’s data,” says Maor.
Bertrand Sicot, the former CEO of SolidWorks and Deputy CEO of Visiativ—one of the largest distributors of engineering software in the world: “Leo is the first AI applied to engineering, and engineers are dying for this progress. I believe it’s going to change the way people are developing products by massively impacting the engineering process.”
“Before we started Leo, it felt like all the other professions had their own AI - lawyers have Harvey, developers have Cursor - what about MEs?! Today we finally have our own AI.”
With the ~5 hours we save per engineer every week, just imagine how many groundbreaking inventions will be born in the next 5 years. New medical devices will save lives sooner than we thought. Next-gen electric drivetrains will reduce emissions faster. Breakthroughs in sustainable packaging and energy-efficient manufacturing will reshape how we consume and build. By freeing engineers from tedious work, we’re accelerating the path from idea to impact.
Exciting days to be alive.
Leo AI’s seed round was oversubscribed and followed by TechAviv, 2 Lanterns VC, OurCrowd, Mento VC, and strategic investors like the VP of Research and Engineering at Google, Bertrand Sicot (the former CEO of SolidWorks), the CEO of one of the largest distributors of software for mechanical engineering, and more. Trusted by thousands of MEs in leading companies like Scania, HP, Mobileye, and more. Leo is distributed by VARs (value-added resellers) in the UK, USA, India, Benelux, France, Germany, Poland, and Israel.