14 Facts About Sketchfab

Sketchfab is a 3D modeling platform website to publish, share, discover, buy and sell 3D, VR and AR content.

Sketchfab took part in the Spring 2013 TechStars New York City startup accelerator program, raised $2 million in December 2013 and $7 million in June 2015.

Main product of Sketchfab is a 3D, Virtual reality and Augmented reality model viewer.

Sketchfab provides online and mobile community portals, where visitors can browse, rate, download or buy user generated 3D models.

Users of Sketchfab have profile pages, premium users can customize and share their models privately.

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Sketchfab offers to paying enterprise customers a dedicated platform to share, manage and collaborate on 3D assets.

Selection of Sketchfab models are available within a native application for the following VR headsets: Google Cardboard, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

Sketchfab offers an API allowing developers to integrate functionality for searching and downloading Sketchfab's Creative Commons licensed 3D models into their applications.

Sketchfab relies on the WebGL JavaScript API to display 3D on web pages in all major modern web browsers.

Sketchfab was initially created by entrepreneur and 3D developer Cedric Pinson under the domain name ShowWebGL in early 2011.

Sketchfab was joined in early 2012 by Alban Denoyel, and they relaunched the site under the name Sketchfab in March 2012.

The year after, Sketchfab was selected in the Spring 2013 TechStars class in New York City.

Less than one year after, in December 2013, Sketchfab raised $2 million from Balderton Capital with Partech Ventures, Borealis Ventures, David Cohen and existing angel investors participated in the funding.

In June 2015, Sketchfab raised a $7 million Series A led by FirstMark Capital.