en.Wedoany.com Reported - Miami-based coastal infrastructure startup Kind Designs has completed an oversubscribed $10 million Pre-Series A funding round to scale up production of its 3D-printed Living Seawalls. The round values the company at $70 million, bringing total cumulative funding to $21.5 million.
The company initially planned to raise $5 million, but investor interest approached $20 million, prompting it to double the funding amount. NBA forward Kyle Kuzma joined as a new investor, while existing backers Mark Cuban and former Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty continued their support, having invested in Kind Designs across multiple rounds.
"The seawall industry is a multi-hundred-billion-dollar market, but it has never had a real technology company," said Anya Freeman, founder and CEO of Kind Designs. "We are building one of the most important technology companies in America, putting resilience on the agenda as the next major industrial category." In a LinkedIn post, Freeman described the industry as "a $100 billion market with no tech companies" and characterized traditional seawalls as "poured structures that erode and kill marine habitats."
Cuban stated that his decision to reinvest was based on business opportunity rather than purely environmental appeal. "Anya showed me an opportunity to disrupt a multi-billion-dollar coastal infrastructure market in a way that is faster, cheaper, and also better for the environment," Cuban said. "Kind Designs continues to solidify its position as a leading innovator in coastal resilience and serves as a perfect reminder that you can both 'make money' and 'do good.'"
Kind Designs reported revenue growth from $1 million in 2025 to $10 million in contract work, while maintaining an active project pipeline of $175 million. Its Living Seawalls have been installed at the Fontainebleau, Pagani, and Ritz-Carlton properties in Miami Beach, as well as municipal projects in Miami Shores and Longboat Key. The company has also secured its first projects in New York City, Charleston, and Nassau, and is pursuing opportunities in California related to coastal erosion and rail protection infrastructure. Additionally, Kind Designs holds a $2 million contract with the U.S. Navy.
Miami-Dade County updated its seawall code over the past year, providing accelerated permitting and environmental mitigation exemptions for Kind Designs' system. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 302, directing the state's Department of Environmental Protection to incentivize the adoption of Living Seawalls statewide. Kind Designs said it plans to use the new capital to expand into New York and California, triple the capacity of its seawall factory by increasing robot count and expanding production lines, provide working capital support for large municipal and federal projects, and grow its engineering and operations teams.
