Spline vs IBM
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SF/Chile YC W21 browser-based collaborative 3D design platform at $32M total ($16M Third Point/Gradient Series A Jun 2024) and $55M valuation; no-code 3D for web/app/game competing with Rive and Blender for interactive 3D content creation.
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Spline is a Santiago, Chile-founded (now San Francisco-based) collaborative web 3D design platform — backed by Y Combinator (W21) with $32 million in total funding including a $16 million Series A in June 2024 led by Third Point Ventures with participation from First Round Capital, Gradient Ventures (Google's AI fund), and YC — providing designers and developers with a browser-based 3D design tool for creating interactive 3D experiences, game elements, product configurators, and motion graphics without writing three.js or WebGL code. Founded in 2020 and reaching a $55 million valuation in July 2023, Spline serves the growing community of web designers who want to incorporate 3D interactive elements (spinning product models, 3D landing page heroes, animated 3D icons) into websites and apps through a no-code visual editor with real-time collaboration.
Armonk NY hybrid cloud and enterprise AI (NYSE: IBM) at $62.8B revenue; $6B+ generative AI bookings, record $12.7B free cash flow 2024, DataStax acquisition for watsonx vector database competing with Microsoft Azure for enterprise AI.
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International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an Armonk, New York-based global technology and consulting company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: IBM) as an S&P 500 component — providing hybrid cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence software, and enterprise IT consulting through approximately 270,300 employees in 170 countries with $62.8 billion in annual revenue. Founded on June 16, 1911, as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company through a merger orchestrated by financier Charles Ranlett Flint, renamed IBM in 1924 under Thomas Watson Sr., IBM has undergone multiple strategic transformations over its 110+ year history: building the System/360 mainframe platform (1964), launching the IBM PC (1981), selling the PC division to Lenovo (2005, $1.75B), and completing the $34 billion Red Hat acquisition (2019) that repositioned IBM as a hybrid cloud platform company. CEO Arvind Krishna (appointed April 2020) has focused IBM's strategy on three areas: hybrid cloud (powered by Red Hat OpenShift, the enterprise Kubernetes platform), AI (the watsonx platform for enterprise AI model development and deployment), and enterprise consulting. Under Krishna, IBM recorded $12.7 billion in free cash flow in 2024 (a company record), surpassed $6 billion in generative AI bookings since June 2023, and saw the stock price double — trading at all-time highs through 2024-2025. IBM announced the DataStax acquisition in 2025 to deepen watsonx's data layer with AstraDB (vector database for AI applications), DataStax Enterprise (Apache Cassandra), and Langflow (low-code AI agent development).
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