Cylindo

What Cylindo does

Cylindo (legally operated as Chaos Software GmbH, DBA 'Chaos Cylindo') is an AI Visual Commerce and 3D Product Visualization platform purpose-built for the furniture and home goods industry. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco with European operations through its German parent, the company serves 300+ furniture brands, retailers, and manufacturers globally across the USA, Canada, UK, Netherlands, Denmark, and Australia. Its core offering is a Master Asset-driven platform that ingests or creates structured 3D product models and uses them to generate 360-degree HD viewers, web-native augmented reality (no app download required), photorealistic lifestyle room scenes, real-time modular product configurations, and API-distributed content for marketplaces, dealer networks, and Google Shopping feeds.

The platform is organized as a Core Platform subscription with two add-on bundles (Lifestyle Bundle and 3D Design Bundle) and a suite of sub-products including QuickShot (AI lifestyle imagery), Studio (3D room scenes), Curator (streamlined viewer deployment), Create (programmatic image generation for marketplaces), Modular Designer (multi-component configurator), AR, Analytics, Dimension Shots, and Connect (cross-brand content reuse). Cylindo monetizes via quote-based annual SaaS subscriptions with tiered bundle pricing indexed to catalog size and feature access. Its GTM combines enterprise field sales, channel partners, and product-led content marketing (case studies, G2 reviews averaging 4.8, resource library, webinars, and trade show presence such as High Point Market). Following its 2023 acquisition by Chaos Software GmbH (parent of V-Ray rendering technology), Cylindo operates as a product line within the Chaos 3D visualization ecosystem and is repositioning from a per-brand visualization tool toward a broader AI-powered visual content supply chain for furniture commerce.

Name

Cylindo

Legal name

Chaos Software GmbH

Website

https://cylindo.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Cylindo is an AI Visual Commerce and 3D Product Visualization platform serving 300+ furniture brands and retailers globally with 360-degree viewers, web-native AR, AI-generated lifestyle imagery, and API-based content distribution.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Visual Commerce Platform Subscription: SaaS platform subscription model providing access to 3D visualization tools, AR, content creation, and distribution capabilities. Customers can choose from different bundles (Core Platform, Lifestyle Bundle, 3D Design Bundle) with pricing based on product catalog size and feature access.
2. Enterprise Platform Licensing: Enterprise licensing for large furniture retailers and brands requiring full platform access, API integration, and dedicated support. Includes bundling of viewer, AR, studio, and analytics tools.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels12 records

Core offering

Cylindo provides a cloud-based AI Visual Commerce and 3D Product Visualization Platform that transforms furniture product catalogs into structured visual intelligence. The platform delivers 360-degree HD product viewers, web-native augmented reality (AR), AI-generated lifestyle imagery, real-time product configurators, and a Content API for distributing visuals to websites, marketplaces, and dealer networks. It is sold primarily to furniture brands and retailers to increase conversion rates, average order value, and reduce returns on configurable products.

Product overview

Cylindo is an AI Visual Commerce and 3D Product Visualization Platform structured as a core platform with modular add-on bundles and individual sub-products. The Core Platform serves as the central visual content supply chain, organizing catalogs by product and managing assets. The Lifestyle Bundle adds 3D and AI lifestyle imagery tools, while the 3D Design Bundle enables real-time multi-component configuration. Individual products include the 360 HD Viewer for immersive product inspection, Cylindo AR for web-native augmented reality, Quickshot for AI-powered lifestyle imagery, Studio for photorealistic 3D room scenes, Modular Designer for multi-product grouping configurations, Curator for streamlined viewer implementation, Create for programmatic image generation, Analytics for visual performance tracking, Dimension Shots for technical specifications, and Connect for leveraging partner content. The platform serves furniture, kitchen & bath, outdoor living, and contract/commercial verticals through 300+ brand partnerships.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Core Platform Central visual content supply chain platform that organizes catalogs by product, manages visual assets and product data, and powers AI content and immersive buying experiences for furniture brands and retailers.
• 360 HD Viewer Interactive 360-degree product viewer with 4K zoom that lets shoppers inspect products from every angle, mimicking an in-showroom experience on product detail pages.
• Cylindo AR Web-native augmented reality that puts products in the shopper's real room directly from the product detail page, requiring no app download and supporting scale verification and spatial placement for furniture shoppers.
• Quickshot AI-powered lifestyle imagery solution that generates complete lifestyle environments around products in minutes, built for furniture eCommerce teams seeking quality AI-generated visuals.
• Studio 3D visualization tool for creating photorealistic room scenes with full creative control, brand-level art direction, and reusable scene templates for lifestyle imagery at scale.
• Modular Designer Visual configurator that enables shoppers to combine, arrange, and configure multi-component product groupings dynamically on product detail pages without developer effort.
• Curator Product viewer implementation solution that reduces effort and cost of viewer deployment while delivering high-poly photorealistic 3D assets with faster loading speeds.
• Create Image generation tool that uses 3D assets to programmatically create product images for shopping feeds and marketplaces, reducing content production from months to hours.
• Analytics Built-in analytics tracking how every visual performs across product detail page experiences, with Google Analytics integration for conversion, transactions, and average order value metrics.

Quantifiable outcome

• +85% average order value increase
• +8 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability4 records

Feature8 records

Scale indicators19 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Vntana: Vntana is a 3D/AR platform for e-commerce that handles 3D asset optimization, AR experiences, and product visualization. It targets furniture and other e-commerce brands with similar viewer and AR capabilities to Cylindo.
• Emersya: Emersya provides a 3D/AR product configurator platform for online retailers, including furniture and home goods. It offers real-time customization, AR placement, and 3D visualization that compete directly with Cylindo's Modular Designer and AR products.
• Roomle: Roomle offers 3D room planning and product configuration for furniture retailers and brands. It competes with Cylindo in the furniture e-commerce space, particularly for configurable, modular product visualization.
• Configura: Configura (CET Designer) delivers space planning, 3D visualization, and specification tools to office, commercial, and home furniture manufacturers and dealers. It serves an overlapping furniture customer base with deep configuration and B2B specification capabilities.
• Threekit: Threekit is a 3D product visualization and configuration platform serving furniture, home goods, and other e-commerce verticals. It offers 360 viewers, AR, and configurators that directly overlap with Cylindo's core offering for similar enterprise furniture brands and retailers.
• Marxent: Marxent provides 3D/AR product visualization and Visual Commerce solutions specifically for home furnishings retailers and manufacturers. It competes head-to-head with Cylindo for the same furniture and home goods customers with comparable viewer, AR, and configurator features.

Emerging players

• Avataar.me: Avataar.me delivers 3D/AR product visualization and shopping experiences for e-commerce, including furniture. It is an emerging player with overlapping capabilities but a broader horizontal focus than Cylindo's furniture-specialized approach.
• Sayduck: Sayduck provides 3D and AR product visualization for retailers and brands, including home goods and furniture. It is a smaller emerging player with overlapping viewer and AR functionality targeting similar customer segments.
• Hexa: Hexa (formerly Threedy) offers a 3D/AR content platform for e-commerce, enabling brands to deploy visualization experiences. It competes with Cylindo at the platform level with a broader horizontal focus beyond furniture.

Broad incumbents

• Adobe: Adobe's Substance 3D and Commerce offerings provide 3D content creation, visualization, and e-commerce tooling at scale. As a broad incumbent, Adobe competes indirectly by offering 3D asset pipelines and content tools that overlap with Cylindo's Studio and Master Asset capabilities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Cylindo3D
• Facebookfacebook.com/cylindo
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cylindo
• Instagraminstagram.com/cylindo3d

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors5 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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