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industry. It is a SaaS-based design tool
for furniture stores and designers.
“We build innovative technologies and
connect different stakeholders in the
industry, who are using it. We have
solutions for manufacturers, furniture
stores, franchisors, interior designers,
builders, and later for end-consumers.
Our customisation technology allows
you to instantly change the shape,
size, laminate, colour and hardware.
Internal features like shelves, drawers,
baskets, and pullouts can be interac-
tively fine-tuned to a customer’s re-
quirement,” says Lovepreet, Co-found-
er, Infurnia.
He adds that it is such an easy tool
that even interior designers who are
not tech-savvy can use it. They can
also interactively customise the design
at client locations on a tablet. It’s
completely web-based. Nobody needs
to download anything. “What we offer
is CAD-like functionality with a really
easy to use and pleasing interface,
and design speeds no other tool can
match.”
Set to launch new features
Where there are a few companies that
offer visualisation, Infurnia goes a step
further and offers virtualisation. All
a person has to do is take panorama
photo of their kitchen and the plat-
form creates a virtual room which
has the exact same size, shape, doors
and windows instantly. This virtual
room is then used to implement the
new design and the customer can see
exactly what his or her new kitchen
will look like.
“The current players either visualise
the furniture in standard virtual rooms
or they ask you take measurements of
each and every wall, door, and win-
dows; then use that to create a virtual
As luck would have it, Nikhil, 27, an The duo decided to start a platform room through a room planner app,
IIT-Bombay graduate, met Lovepreet that would focus on bringing 3D which is again not the easiest to use,”
Mann, 26, an IIT-Kharagpur graduate, visualisation solutions for furniture says Lovepreet.
through a common friend. Realising design.
that Lovepreet had the same idea in This innovative product eliminates
mind, they decided to join hands to In December 2014, they incorporated the cost of hiring an expensive CAD
launch a startup. Infurnia, a technology and services team and infrastructure, reduces sale
company catering to the furniture conversion time, traveling costs for
