Backed by

Bob McGrew

Bob McGrew

Former Chief Research Officer, OpenAI / Founder, Arda

Ola Rollén

Ola Rollén

Former CEO, Hexagon

Amar Hanspal

Amar Hanspal

Former Chief Product Officer, Autodesk / Founder, Motif Systems

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Writing the next chapter

Neumann launches in fall 2026, built for the problems CAD can't solve. Our founder, Istvan Csanady, has spent years writing about the foundational problems with CAD, why it breaks, why it can't scale, and why it's the math underneath, not the people who built it. The diagnosis, in chapters. Read it while we write the next one.

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1945

John von Neumann invents the stored-program computer architecture that still bears his name.

1974

Dr. Ian C. Braid pioneers boundary representation for solid modeling, the mathematical foundation of every CAD, CAM and CAE system today.

1985

Samuel Geisberg starts Parametric Technology Corporation, the first commercially successful parametric CAD company.

1988

Shape Data, founded by Dr. Charles Lang, Dr. Ian C. Braid, Dr. Alan Grayer, and Dr. Peter Veenman, launches Parasolid, the geometry engine behind the most popular engineering tools today.

1993

Jon Hirschtick founds SOLIDWORKS, putting 3D CAD on the desk of every engineer.

Neumann. Built for the problems CAD can't solve.

Coming fall 2026.