HP Tech Ventures invested in Theia to expand Optim, the studio's tool for getting 3D data into Unreal Engine.
Theia and HP first connected at Autodesk University 2018. The investment tripled Theia's development team and pushed Optim's beta program past 600 users across film, games, architecture, automotive, and manufacturing.
The problem Optim solves: enterprise teams have complex 3D data (CAD, BIM, scan data) but getting it into Unreal Engine normally means weeks of manual prep by technical artists. Optim handles clustered merging, selection filters, one-click LOD generation, and lightbuild scheduling, so a design team can do the work themselves.
Angelo Del Priore at HP Tech Ventures said the tool addressed something HP's own customers kept running into: they had the 3D data, they had the hardware, but the gap between raw files and a usable real-time environment was still too wide.