The 3DGS App for E-commerce

and Free workshops you should attend!

Mariem Ferhat is co-founder and COO of Solaya, a deep tech company making high-fidelity 3D Gaussian Splatting accessible through a smartphone. In this conversation, she explains how Solaya’s guided capture workflow produces retail-ready 3D models in under two minutes, and how one scan can replace the five separate product shoots a retailer typically needs per item. Mariem closes with a candid take on the European deep tech funding gap and what it actually takes to build a startup from scratch.

But before getting into the interview, I wanted to let you know that this week there is an incredible lineup of workshops organised by SensAI Hackademy.

Over the next 10 days, the team will cover 𝟭𝟬+ 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝟳 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀, from 3D reconstruction & 3DGS to world models, from MCP to agentic spatial interfaces