Gradient Control Laboratories

Gradient Control Laboratories creates venture-scale, market-aligned, technical software products.  As team members and advisors, we strengthen culture, address deep technical challenges, and research core problems in geometric modeling and engineering software architecture.

GCL Incubator

When you have an idea,
and that idea opens a market,
we build a company.

GCL Research

When you have a hard problem that demands technical leadership for a scalable, sustainable solution.

GCL Components

High-level, highly interoperable,
implicit modeling stack for modern,
cross-platform generative design.

Our industry-leading technical specialties include CAD, CAE, and CAM software applications, user experience paradigms, procedural and implicit geometric modeling, interactive programming languages, and modern data science.

Our human specialty is to build modern software teams who pursue value streams via best-in-class engineering practices.

Our partners, Blake Courter and Luke Church founded or helped lead over a dozen successful startups ranging from engineering software through humanitarian communications. 

Residencies

VARIANT3D 

VARIANT3D leads the textiles industry with hyperlocal, zero-waste, and customizable 3D knitting technology. The revolutionary LOOP™ 3D CAD/CAM application transforms manufacturing into a sustainable, collaborative ecosystem.

Rapid Liquid Print enables mass customization and unlocks previously impossible designs for products of all sizes across industries. By transforming elastomer manufacturing with our patented Gravity Free Manufacturing™ technology, we’re pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

Lattices offer the potential to change the world of advanced manufacturing, but a lack of common knowledge impedes their application. There’s pervasive data about their geometry, manufacturing, and applications, but finding the right combination is an inherent lottery, hampering innovation. 

LatticeRobot closes this gap by bringing together a community of engineers into a computationally enhanced working space to aggregate and explore the world’s knowledge of volume and surface lattices, as well as manufacturing surface textures, metamaterial properties, and other properties associated with mesoscale geometry such as composites and multi-material structures.

Team

Blake Courter (BS Mechanical Engineering w/ Materials Science, Princeton University) has led innovation in engineering software for three decades. As CTO and Head of Product at nTop, he established the category of field-driven, generative implicit design. As founder of SpaceClaim (now ANSYS Discovery), he created the first interactive direct editing CAD system, later adopted across the industry. At GrabCAD, he developed the first cloud-based collaborative PDM system, growing the user community to 8 million users.

Luke Church (PhD Computer Science and Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge) has designed and developed interactive programming environments across domains from systems biology to choreography. He led the Dynamo visual language project at Autodesk and the UX program for Google's Dart programming language, and is currently working on generative fine art.

Mariana Marasoiu (PhD Human-Computer Interaction, University of Cambridge) leads our discovery process and architects full stack web applications. Her previous work includes projects at Google focused on user experience and at Africa's Voices Foundation building interactive data analysis and communication tools.

Dan Rubel (BS Electrical Engineering, Bucknell University) has focused his career on building compilers and software development environments. He has worked extensively on the Eclipse development environment and led the interactive code editor team for Dart.

Steve DeMai (BS Computer Science, Syracuse University) specializes in graphics and 3D interaction. At SolidWorks, he led development of the widely-adopted eDrawings platform. At Stratasys GrabCAD, he spearheaded several key projects, including GrabCAD Print and a breakthrough implicit modeler that underpinned dozens of innovations.

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