The investor list includes returning backers Mark Cuban and former Washington, D.C., mayor Adrian Fenty, alongside new investor and NBA forward Kyle Kuzma.<\/p>\n
The funding comes as Kind Designs moves well beyond its early days serving homeowners. The company generated $1 million in revenue during 2025 but says it has already secured $10 million in contracted revenue and built an active pipeline worth $175 million. That growth has been fueled by projects spanning municipalities, luxury hotels, and the U.S. military, including a recently awarded $2 million contract with the U.S. Navy.<\/p>\n
Using large-scale 3D printing and ecological engineering, Kind Designs develops Living Seawalls, artificial reefs, and other shoreline systems designed to protect coastlines while encouraging marine life.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe seawall industry is a multi-hundred-billion-dollar market that has never had a true technology company,\u201d founder and CEO Anya Freeman shared in the company\u2019s announcement. \u201cWe\u2019re building one of America\u2019s most important tech companies to put resiliency on the map as the next great industrial category.\u201d<\/p>\n
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That vision resonated with Cuban, who has now invested in multiple funding rounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost 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\u2019s faster, cheaper, and also better for the environment,\u201d Cuban said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cKind Designs continues to cement itself as a leading innovator in coastal resiliency and is a perfect reminder that you can both \u2018do well\u2019 and \u2018do good,\u2019\u201d he continued. \u201cThis is why I wrote another check into the company.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kind Designs\u2019 recent projects include installations at Fontainebleau, Pagani, and the Ritz-Carlton in Miami Beach, alongside municipal work in Miami Shores and Longboat Key. The company has also landed projects in New York City, Charleston, and Nassau, while expanding into California.<\/p>\n
The startup is also benefiting from policy changes. Miami-Dade County recently updated its seawall codes to provide expedited permitting and environmental mitigation exemptions for Kind Designs\u2019 systems, while Florida has directed the Department of Environmental Protection to develop incentives supporting Living Seawall adoption statewide.<\/p>\n
The new funding will help the company expand into new markets, increase production capacity, hire additional engineers, and support larger municipal and federal projects.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re done building at the pace permission allows,\u201d Freeman said. \u201cThe technology is proven. The demand is here. Now it\u2019s about scaling a new generation of coastal infrastructure that protects America while making this country more beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n
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