Shailesh Goswami

Founder and CEO Foyr

Last Reviewed: September 18, 2026

Executive Summary

Shailesh Goswami is the founder and chief executive of Foyr, a Singapore-headquartered visualisation software company built around a specific frustration in interior design: the gap between the tools that let you design a space and the tools that let you show a client what it will look like. Professional rendering has traditionally meant expensive desktop software, a serious hardware investment and a long learning curve, which pushed photorealistic visualisation out of reach for individual designers and small practices. Foyr’s principal product, Foyr Neo, collapses design, 3D modelling and photorealistic rendering into a single browser-based workflow. The company has since extended into generative AI with Foyr Ideate, which produces room designs from text prompts.

Career Highlights

• Founded Foyr in 2015 and has led it as chief executive since.
• Built Foyr Neo, combining design, modelling and photorealistic rendering in one browser-based product aimed at interior designers, architects and contractors.
• Launched Foyr Ideate, an AI-powered tool generating room designs from text prompts.
• Grew the company to Series A stage, backed by SRI Capital and by Jones Lang LaSalle, the global commercial real estate services firm.

Professional Journey

Goswami founded Foyr in 2015 to address the visualisation problem in interior design and contracting. The market he targeted was underserved in a straightforward way: designers and contractors needed to show clients realistic representations of proposed spaces, but the software capable of producing those images was built for specialists, priced for studios and dependent on powerful local hardware. That left a large population of professionals producing either flat two-dimensional plans or nothing at all, and losing work as a result.

Foyr’s answer was to move the whole workflow into the browser. Foyr Neo lets a designer lay out a space, place and modify furniture and fittings from a catalogue, and generate photorealistic renders without switching tools, exporting to a separate renderer or buying a workstation. The design decision that matters is the collapsing of steps — the product is aimed at people whose value is design judgement rather than software operation.

As generative AI became viable for image and layout generation, the company extended in that direction with Foyr Ideate, which produces room designs from natural-language prompts. That sits naturally alongside Neo: prompts for exploring options quickly, and the full editor for turning a chosen direction into something buildable and presentable.

The company reached Series A stage with backing from SRI Capital and from Jones Lang LaSalle. The JLL investment is the more strategically telling of the two, since it places a major commercial real estate services firm behind a design visualisation tool — the adjacency between property services and the software used to sell space is the obvious logic.

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Education

No education could be established. No institution, degree or field appears in any source available during this review, and the company’s own materials could not be accessed to check.