GRAVITY SKETCH LIMITED

Their core work

Gravity Sketch builds professional-grade collaborative 3D design software for virtual reality and mixed-reality environments. Their core product lets multiple designers work simultaneously on the same 3D model in real time — targeting product designers, automotive studios, footwear brands, and industrial design teams who need spatial design workflows without the constraints of traditional CAD or desktop tools. They progressed from a multiplatform VR/AR/mobile co-creation concept to a focused professional tool positioned as the first of its kind for collaborative spatial design at scale. As a product company rather than a research contractor, their EU funding supported commercial product development, not academic research.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their 2018 Phase 1 project, Gravity Sketch's scope was broad — a multiplatform tool spanning VR, AR, and mobile aimed at general-purpose 3D content co-creation and collaboration. By the time they secured Phase 2 funding in 2020, the framing had tightened considerably: the product became a professional 3D design tool with a clear commercial target market, dropping the multi-platform generalism in favour of depth. This is a typical SME Instrument maturation arc — wide exploration in Phase 1, focused product positioning in Phase 2.

Gravity Sketch is moving from a broad spatial computing platform toward a defensible niche as the professional-grade collaborative 3D design layer for industrial and creative design workflows — a direction consistent with their reported market traction in automotive, footwear, and product design industries.

How they like to work

Gravity Sketch operated exclusively as a solo applicant under the SME Instrument, which by design funds single companies without consortium requirements — so the absence of partners reflects the funding mechanism, not an aversion to collaboration. In practice, this means they have no documented track record of working inside multi-partner EU consortia. A potential collaborator should expect to engage them as a technology provider or product integrator rather than as an experienced consortium coordinator in the traditional Horizon sense.

Gravity Sketch has no recorded consortium partners from their H2020 participation, as both projects were solo SME Instrument grants. Their network, if any, exists outside the EU project system — in their commercial customer base and investor relationships rather than in academic or research consortia.

What sets them apart

Gravity Sketch is a product company, not a research organisation — they built a commercially deployed VR design tool and used EU SME Instrument funding to accelerate product development, which is relatively rare in the H2020 database dominated by universities and research institutes. For a consortium needing a spatial design or VR collaboration technology partner with a live product and real users, they offer something most academic partners cannot: working software already in use by professional design teams.

Highlights from their portfolio

• Project Orchestra
  The largest of their two grants at EUR 2.41M, this Phase 2 SME Instrument project positioned Gravity Sketch as building the world's first collaborative professional 3D design tool — an unusually bold commercial claim for an EU-funded project.
• Gravity Sketch
  The 2018 Phase 1 feasibility grant (EUR 50,000) validated the multiplatform VR/AR/mobile co-creation concept and directly unlocked the much larger Phase 2 award, making it the proof-of-concept foundation for the whole company's EU-funded trajectory.