Kind Designs has announced the close of a $10 million Pre-Series A at a $70 million valuation, bringing the company's total funding to date to $21.5 million.

NBA forward Kyle Kuzma joined the round alongside returning investors Mark Cuban and former Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, who have each backed the company across multiple rounds.

Kind Designs is reinventing coastal infrastructure through large-scale 3D-printing and ecological engineering. The company develops Living Seawalls™, Living Seawall Tiles™, Artificial Reefs and Living Shorelines that protect coastal communities from flooding and storm surge while restoring marine ecosystems. By combining resilient infrastructure with nature-based design, Kind Designs is helping replace traditional gray seawalls with living infrastructure built for the next century. The company's solutions serve residential, commercial, hospitality, municipal and federal projects across the United States.