Andreessen Horowitz was interested in investing in an AI company that can accelerate the fashion manufacturing process, said Bryan Kim, a partner at the firm. “We had met with multiple companies and got excited about Cheryl as a founder and how she approaches building a company.”
Of course, it also helped that Raspberry has “marque clients that are very, very large and important,” Kim added.
While Liu acknowledged that Raspberry competes with other AI image generators like Midjourney, DALL-E, and Adobe Firefly, a key reason why professional designers choose her company’s product is its ability to understand and accurately interpret industry-specific terminology.