GeekWire’s startup coverage documents the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter , and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and venture capital directory .Canvas leadership, from left, back row: Meena Srinivasan, fractional CFO; Sarah Bird, CEO; Zoe Silverman, head of people; Dianne Hallock, chief revenue officer. Front row: Anton Yakubenko, chief product officer; Jed Lyon, head of operations; and Gleb Krivovyaz, head of engineering. (Canvas Photo)Canvas, a startup providing technology for 3D measurements and modeling used in architecture, interior design and construction, today announced $10 million in new funding.The business is led by Sarah Bird, a longtime Seattle executive who was a leader at SEO software startup Moz for nearly 14 years, including seven as CEO.The Series A funding round was jointly led by Trilogy Equity Partners, the venture capital firm based in Bellevue, Wash., and Colorado’s Foundry Group. Other investors included Acquired Wisdom Fund, GC&H Investments and Frontier VC.Bird took the role of chief executive of Canvas in April 2024. The company is Denver based, but its 50-employee, global team operates fully remotely.Canvas got its start in 2008 as Occipital, which worked on 3D sensing, virtual reality, hardware products and other technologies

Sarah Bird. (LinkedIn Photo). Sarah Bird, the Seattle tech veteran who led SEO software startup Moz for seven years, is the new CEO of Canvas, a software company that builds technology for remodeling, architecture and interior design.A former lawyer who started at Moz as chief operating officer in 2007, Bird left the company in November 2021 after it was acquired by J2 Global. She spent almost two years on a sabbatical that she said was filled with travel, startup investing, volunteering, remodeling her home and more. She also got engaged, she wrote on LinkedIn on Wednesday.Feeling “powered up,” Bird called the Canvas job her “next dream role.”Canvas uses LiDAR-enabled iPhone or iPad scans to capture precise 3D representations of homes and create interactive models with accurate measurements. The process turns the scans into detailed, editable, as-built files in industry-standard formats.The company traces its roots to 2008, when Jeffrey Powers and Vikas Reddy co-founded the firm, previously known as Occipital Inc.“What truly excites me about Canvas is not just the groundbreaking technology but also the customers we serve,” Bird said on LinkedIn