Hi, I'm Max.

I'm a Germany-based entrepreneur with more than a decade of experience in the 3D graphics software industry. I love to enable everyone to leverage the power of 3D computer graphics, for the benefit of the real world. This is my personal website, collecting insights, articles, and resources on 3D graphics tech and startup life.

More About Me

Since 2018, I am CEO, Chairman of the Board and Co-Founder of DGG, the startup that creates RapidPipeline (previously known as RapidCompact). In the past 7+ years, I have guided the company through various successful funding rounds, scaling to seven-figure annual revenue. At DGG, we have brought together the brightest minds in 3D graphics and software engineering to enable anyone to leverage the power of 3D technology, for the benefit of the real world. We do so using, and contributing to, open standards like glTF, USD, and MaterialX / OpenPBR.

I also run a micro-investment lab called Heiner Capital, focused on supporting innovative deep tech.

Before founding my own company, I worked on industry projects and in applied research. I received my engineering PhD with honors from TU Darmstadt in 2018, under the supervision of Dieter W. Fellner, on the topic of Automatic Optimization of 3D Mesh Data for Real-Time Online Presentation. In 2019, it was awarded with the Hugo Geiger Prize of the Fraunhofer Society (1st place). During my research work, I also spent 6 months at Alla Sheffer's Digital Geometry Processing Group at UBC (Vancouver, BC, Canada), and another half year at Siemens Corporate Research (Princeton, NY, USA).

If you want to contact me, please write an email to my ACM address: max.limper ( at ) siggraph.org

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