F13 emerges from stealth with $5M for vector graphics AI

F13, an AI company developing foundation models for generating vector graphics, has emerged from stealth with $5 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Credo Ventures and Point Nine Capital, with participation from angel investors including Baobab Ventures’ Carles Reina and mainframe’s Jack Richardson.

Founded by Gregory Janik and Ingimar Tomasson, F13 is developing foundation models designed to generate precise and controllable vector graphics from text, images or existing graphics. The company is targeting professional applications where visual outputs need to follow specific data, proportions, layouts or design requirements.

The company says existing image-generation models can produce creative imagery but often struggle with technical accuracy, including charts that accurately represent data, scientific diagrams with correct proportions and creative assets that follow specific design systems. F13’s models are designed to address these limitations while reducing the time required to produce visuals.

The technology generates vector graphics, a format widely used in design and engineering that can scale across different sizes and resolutions while preserving visual structure and proportions. Outputs remain editable after generation, allowing users to modify and iterate on designs rather than generating them again from scratch.

F13’s technology is designed to help its AI models understand and interact with two-dimensional space. Its initial use cases include data visualisations and charts, editorial infographics, scientific and educational diagrams, maps and spatial graphics, as well as brand-consistent layouts for presentations and marketing materials.

Gregory Janik, co-founder and CEO of F13, said the company is focused on combining design quality with technical accuracy and adherence to users’ specifications:

We didn't want to build another model that's impressively expressive and quietly wrong. We create visuals that are not only beautiful to look at, but are true to the brief, with the correct proportions, accurate data, and precise layouts. That's the only version of this technology that's genuinely useful to discerning professionals who know what good looks like and are doing high-stakes design work.

F13 has launched in early access and is making its model available through a developer API and a web-based platform where teams can generate, edit, manage and share their work. A public launch is planned for later this year.

The company will use the pre-seed funding to bring its first model to market and expand its compute, talent and data resources. It also plans to explore additional applications for its technology and develop new models for more complex design tasks.