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Modern Design Platform (MDP) is a discovery-to-delivery infrastructure company built to fix what’s broken in hospitality and commercial FF&E.
Across hotels, mixed-use developments, and large-scale renovations, sourcing Lifestyle FF&E remains fragmented, slow, opaque, and risky. Designers struggle with incomplete product data and customization constraints. Owners and operators face rising costs, unpredictable lead times, and execution risk. Manufacturers lack efficient access to qualified projects and reliable demand.
MDP solves this by operating as an embedded infrastructure layer that connects hospitality owners, design leaders, purchasing agents, and European manufacturers through a single, structured discovery-to-delivery workflow.
The platform enables curated product discovery, configurable specifications, accurate pricing, coordinated procurement, and delivery certainty—reducing project risk while unlocking higher design ambition within fixed budgets. For hospitality owners and investors, MDP creates asset-level capital recovery through cost-of-goods FF&E, downside protection through reduced project risk, and multiple paths to value including operating savings, portfolio leverage, and long-term equity upside.
For designers, MDP replaces fragmented sourcing with a single environment to discover, specify, customize, price, and deliver Lifestyle FF&E—saving time, reducing fee pressure, and improving outcomes. For manufacturers, MDP provides structured access to hospitality projects, standardized data, and a complementary distribution layer alongside consolidation strategies.
Founded by leaders with decades of experience across luxury design, hospitality execution, and technology, MDP is building the operating system for modern hospitality FF&E—turning complexity into predictable execution.
Currently raising via AngelList (stack.angellist.com/s/dtz591mqfe)
Across hotels, mixed-use developments, and large-scale renovations, sourcing Lifestyle FF&E remains fragmented, slow, opaque, and risky. Designers struggle with incomplete product data and customization constraints. Owners and operators face rising costs, unpredictable lead times, and execution risk. Manufacturers lack efficient access to qualified projects and reliable demand.
MDP solves this by operating as an embedded infrastructure layer that connects hospitality owners, design leaders, purchasing agents, and European manufacturers through a single, structured discovery-to-delivery workflow.
The platform enables curated product discovery, configurable specifications, accurate pricing, coordinated procurement, and delivery certainty—reducing project risk while unlocking higher design ambition within fixed budgets. For hospitality owners and investors, MDP creates asset-level capital recovery through cost-of-goods FF&E, downside protection through reduced project risk, and multiple paths to value including operating savings, portfolio leverage, and long-term equity upside.
For designers, MDP replaces fragmented sourcing with a single environment to discover, specify, customize, price, and deliver Lifestyle FF&E—saving time, reducing fee pressure, and improving outcomes. For manufacturers, MDP provides structured access to hospitality projects, standardized data, and a complementary distribution layer alongside consolidation strategies.
Founded by leaders with decades of experience across luxury design, hospitality execution, and technology, MDP is building the operating system for modern hospitality FF&E—turning complexity into predictable execution.
Currently raising via AngelList (stack.angellist.com/s/dtz591mqfe)
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Rob Sarmiento
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Founder & CEO building discovery-to-delivery infrastructure for hospitality FF&E, combining decades of luxury design, project execution, and technology leadersh
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