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Raspberry AI is a technology company.
Raspberry AI develops an artificial intelligence-powered creative assistant specifically for the fashion industry. This platform enables design, product, and marketing teams to precisely visualize trends, fabrics, trims, prints, stitch details, and silhouettes. The core technology assists brands in accelerating their creative workflows, facilitating a more rapid and efficient process for bringing new collections to market without compromising aesthetic quality.
The company was founded by Cheryl Liu, who identified a critical need within the fashion sector for enhanced operational agility. Leveraging her background, including her studies at Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Liu established Raspberry AI to help brands significantly reduce design time and associated costs. Her insight focused on empowering fashion businesses to respond more effectively to dynamic consumer demands.
Raspberry AI primarily serves design, product, and marketing departments across fashion brands. The company's vision centers on fundamentally reimagining every stage of product development, collaborating with leading names in the industry. It aims to empower these teams to conceive and deliver compelling apparel that resonates with modern consumers.
Raspberry AI has raised $28.5M across 2 funding rounds.
Raspberry AI has raised $28.5M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Raspberry AI is a New York-based technology company founded in 2022 that builds a generative AI platform tailored for retail product design, primarily in fashion.[1][2][4] The platform automates the creation of technical packs, CAD files, mood boards, photorealistic renderings, and other assets from trends or sketches, serving fashion brands like Under Armour and Li & Fung to accelerate concept-to-market timelines, boost inventory efficiency, and enable more precise design cycles.[1][2][4][5] With about 9 employees and $28.5M in total funding—including a $24M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz—the company demonstrates strong growth momentum, expanding into home, furniture, and cosmetics while becoming a core workflow tool for leading retailers.[1][3][4]
Raspberry AI was founded in 2022 by Cheryl Liu, who serves as CEO, drawing on her deep technical expertise and encyclopedic knowledge of the fashion market.[1][4] The idea emerged from recognizing inefficiencies in fashion design workflows, where designers spend excessive time on rote tasks like technical drawings and trend visualization amid advancing AI adoption in the industry.[2][4] Early traction came quickly post-product launch last year (2024), with adoption by major players like Li & Fung and Under Armour, fueled by seed funding for initial platform development and a Series A to scale into new verticals.[1][4] Liu's vision positions AI as a "studio companion" that enhances human creativity rather than replacing it, humanizing the tool as an enabler for designers fluent in craft, culture, and technology.[5]
Raspberry AI stands out in the crowded AI design space through domain-specific innovations optimized for retail:
Raspberry AI rides the wave of generative AI transforming creative industries, specifically targeting fashion's $1.7T+ retail ecosystem where design and merchandising bottlenecks cause overstock and slow innovation.[4] Timing is ideal amid surging AI adoption in retail—post-ChatGPT era—aligning with market forces like supply chain pressures, sustainability demands for less waste, and consumer trends for personalized, rapid product cycles.[1][2][4] By optimizing iterative prototyping, it influences the ecosystem downstream: brands launch more SKUs faster, improve inventory turns, and enhance shopping experiences, potentially setting an industry standard as AI bridges data gaps in inventory and merchandising.[2][4]
Raspberry AI is poised to dominate retail design AI, expanding from fashion into adjacent verticals like home goods with its recent Series A fueling product advances and market penetration.[1] Key trends—deeper AI integration in supply chains, multimodal models for 3D-to-realistic rendering, and enterprise privacy demands—will propel its growth, potentially redefining brand innovation and reducing global overstock waste.[4][5] As it scales, expect broader ecosystem influence, evolving from a design accelerator to a full creative system that empowers multilingual designers to dream bigger, tying back to its core mission of technology in service of vision.[5]
Raspberry AI has raised $28.5M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Raspberry AI's investors include Andreessen Horowitz, 2048 Ventures, Alt Capital, C2 Investment, Coatue, Data Tech Fund, LAUNCH, Pale Blue Dot, Prototype Capital, Ride Ventures, Sixth Street, Arash Ferdowsi.
Raspberry AI has raised $28.5M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $24.0M Series A in January 2025.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 2025 | $24.0M Series A | Andreessen Horowitz | 2048 Ventures, Alt Capital, C2 Investment, Coatue, Data Tech Fund, LAUNCH, Pale Blue Dot, Prototype Capital, Ride Ventures, Sixth Street, Arash Ferdowsi, Ben Tossell, Claire Hughes Johnson, Parker Conrad, Scot Wingo |
| Mar 3, 2024 | $4.5M Seed |