Voxshell has closed a £800,000 seed funding round from DSW Ventures, with support from Innovate UK, to accelerate ChopMesh, its proprietary meshing platform for engineering simulation.
Voxshell was created to support additive manufacturing, where converting complex 3D geometry into mesh models can consume huge amounts of time and resources, forcing engineers to degrade fidelity and discard precise structural designs.
Its proprietary algorithm, ChopMesh, was built from the ground up to ingest implicit geometry natively without conversion, preserving the full design intent through the simulation mesh via an nTop connector that works within the nTop GUI.
By incorporating AI-accelerated processing, ChopMesh automates workflows in which legacy tools require human intervention, generating geometrically faithful meshes substantially faster.
Dr. Liang Yang, founder and CEO of Voxshell, said: “We’re at the point where both advanced manufacturing and AI-native engineering need the same thing: faithful meshes from geometry that legacy tools simply can’t handle. ChopMesh is built natively for exactly that geometry, which uniquely positions us to serve both today’s aerospace and industrial engineers and the fast growing class of Physics-AI companies that depend on high-quality mesh data. This funding is a strong endorsement of that mission and the team behind it.”
Having spun out of Cranfield University in April 2024, Voxshell states it has paying customers and pilots underway with a number of tier-one aerospace OEMs. The team is also developing a higher-performance version of ChopMesh, capable of automating the batch processing of large-scale mesh files that current tools cannot handle, which is due to be released later this year.
The investment will be used to scale the Voxshell engineering team and add automated workflow orchestration to the platform, while supporting the team in building on the initial commercial traction it generated and extend its go to market partnerships.
DSW Ventures investment associate Dr. Mira Androniciuc, added: “We’re proud to be backing this innovative business as it continues to advance its proprietary ChopMesh platform. The team’s breakthrough positions the platform uniquely to fuel the data-hunger Physics-AI industry and drive the next generation of engineering simulation software.”
