Last week, our CEO Mariam Naficy spoke at Humans in the Loop, an event hosted by Forerunner and others that brought together builders at the forefront of AI and consumer experience. She shared what we're building at Arcade: a platform where shopping doesn’t begin with what’s in stock, but with what you want to create. From rugs inspired by heirlooms to mulberry tree pillows, we’re making it possible for anyone to turn an idea into a product, brought to life by real makers around the world. The hunt is over. arcade.ai
Arcade
Technology, Information and Internet
San Francisco, CA 3,155 followers
The world’s first AI physical product creation platform.
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Arcade is building the world’s first AI physical product creation platform, where imagination becomes reality. Our platform lets anyone design, purchase, and sell custom, manufacturable products using natural language and generative AI. We believe everyone should have the power to create physical goods as easily as they post online, and we’re building the infrastructure to make that real. We’ve raised $42M from a world-class group of investors, including Reid Hoffman, Forerunner Ventures (Kirsten Green), Canaan Partners (Laura Chau), Adverb Ventures (April Underwood), Factorial Funds (Sol Bier), Offline Ventures (Brit Morin), Sound Ventures (Ashton Kutcher), Inspired Capital (Alexa von Tobel), and Torch Capital (Jonathan Keidan). Our angel investors include Elad Gil, Ev Williams, Marissa Mayer, Sara Beykpour, Kayvon Beykpour, Anna Veronika Dorogush, Eugenia Kuyda, David Luan, Sharon Zhou, Kelly Wearstler, Karlie Kloss, Colin Kaepernick, Christy Turlington Burns, and Jeff Wilke. Arcade is headquartered in San Francisco’s Presidio and led by serial entrepreneur Mariam Naficy (Minted, Eve), and a founding team with deep experience in generative AI, design systems, and supply chain. We’re pioneering a new category at the intersection of AI, personal expression, and on-demand manufacturing, and we’re building fast.
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https://www.arcade.ai
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- Technology, Information and Internet
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- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
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- Privately Held
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- 2023
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Our CEO Mariam Naficy recently sat down with Japanese TV icon Atsushi Tamura on “Tamura Atsushi no Kikitai”, a popular Friday night show on the Tokyo MX TV station. Together, they explored how Arcade’s generative AI enables anyone—from children to celebrities—to design custom rugs, jewelry, and home goods, then bring them to life through expert artisans around the world. Atsushi even designed his own pillow, and had it delivered to his doorstep in Japan. Thank you to the Tokyo MX team for including us in your Silicon Valley segment!
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Thank you to everyone who visited our booth at ICFF—our team had the best time talking to designers, artists, and visionaries. What a way to make our trade show debut! The conversations we had made one thing clear: interior designers are ready for a more flexible, responsive supply chain, one that celebrates traditional artisanship and craft. Arcade empowers creatives to design on demand, using generative AI to produce rugs, ceramics, and textiles from expert makers around the globe. From concept to custom product, we’re building a new creative workflow—one that’s faster, more personal, and built for how today’s designers actually work.
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Arcade was featured in Inc. Magazine for integrating OpenAI's latest image model, GPT-image-1, into a real-world commerce platform. This upgrade has already improved product editing, success rates, and overall experience for our users. Read more at the link below: https://lnkd.in/gaw-jXSU
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Arcade is attending ICFF, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, in New York City May 18-20. Stop by booth #137 to see our AI-generated designs in person. If you're a trade professional and haven't secured your #ICFF2025 ticket, use our promo code EXIV897481 to receive a complimentary Trade Fair Pass. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gC_tb8N8
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What does it take to build a new kind of marketplace—one that turns AI-generated designs into real products, priced and produced on demand? In this deep dive from Cerebral Valley, our CEO Mariam Naficy shares how Arcade is creating the infrastructure for AI-enabled commerce—from frontier models to dynamic pricing to a global maker network. Read the full interview below.
We're live with our Deep Dive on Arcade with CEO/CoFounder Mariam Naficy! Arcade - A New Kind of Marketplace 🔍 Arcade is an AI-to-physical product platform designed to bring personalization and creativity back into online shopping. Founded by serial entrepreneur Mariam Naficy (Eve, Minted) and incubated out of Heretic Ventures, Arcade allows anyone to design, customize, and purchase real physical products generated from AI imagery. From accessories to home decor, each item is manufactured on demand through a global network of vetted makers, powered by fine-tuned image models and real-time pricing and detection models. In March 2025, Arcade announced a $25m Series A round, bringing its total fundraise to $42 million. Current investors now include Reid Hoffman, Offline Ventures (Brit Morin), Sound Ventures (Ashton Kutcher), Canaan Partners (Laura Chau), Forerunner Ventures (Kirsten Green), Inspired Capital (Alexa von Tobel), and Torch Capital (Jonathan Keidan). New angel investors Sara Beykpour, Kayvon Beykpour, Anna Veronika Dorogush, Eugenia Kuyda and Marissa Mayer joined existing angel investors Christy Turlington Burns, Colin Kaepernick, Karlie Kloss, David Luan, and Jeff Wilke. In this conversation, Mariam shares how she built Arcade’s frontier commerce stack, why pricing is the unlock for AI-generated products, and why the most important infrastructure problem in AI right now might actually be supply chain. Link below 👇 https://lnkd.in/e3tyumsv
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Excited to see Arcade included in a16z’s market map of AI-native e-commerce 🛍️ Daisy Z. and Bryan Kim lay out a compelling vision: one where AI doesn’t just optimize shopping — it reinvents it. "Platforms like Arcade AI offer an early glimpse of what’s coming. A prompt as specific as: “Design a star-shaped ring for a birthday party” doesn’t return static product listings, it generates unique designs, based on your input. Users can refine the details and the AI updates both the product and the price in near real time."
Online shopping was built for browsing, not efficiency. We believe AI is flipping that model. The traditional approach optimized for volume — more listings, more ads. Now AI is optimizing for quality, personalization, price, and UX, rebuilding the experience from the ground up. From virtual try-ons and curated outfits to personalized deal-hunting agents, the next wave of ecommerce will be intelligent, predictive, and intuitive. Think: - AI stylists that curate outfits from your wardrobe - Virtual try-ons using 3D body models and LoRA-tuned avatars - Shopping agents that filter spam reviews, price-match, and organize your purchases in one place - Dynamic inventory and custom SKUs created on demand For more on the AI-native future of online shopping, the opportunity it has unlocked, and the startups building it, check out more from Daisy Z. and Bryan Kim: https://bit.ly/4c7ys5D
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We’re thrilled to announce Arcade’s Series A funding from Canaan and Forerunner as we continue to build the world’s first AI product marketplace. This round fuels our mission to deliver a magical shopping experience to consumers — allowing AI to instantly design purchasable products for your unique style, completing any search in a snap.
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AI Editor at Fortune Magazine. Author of “Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future”(Simon & Schuster, July 2024; Bedford Square, August 2024).
One of the things that generative AI can enable that I talk about in "Mastering AI" is true mass customization. This company, which my Fortune colleague Emma Hinchliffe profiles in today's Fortune MPW newsletter, is doing this for jewellery. But Arcade AI has ambitious to move into other products eventually. And I have no doubt that this "design your own" trend will spread to other consumer products very soon—so long as the manufacturing technology exists to do it (and with 3-D printers it increasingly does) and so long as the customizations don't destroy economies of scale (which they might not so long as the core materials are basically the same, but just configured or shaped differently). Watch this space!