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The company has raised $350 million from investors including private-equity firm Vitruvian Partners; the venture arm of consulting firm Accenture; JPMorgan’s asset-management unit; Goldman Sachs Alternatives; and D.E.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

In fact, it will be completely forgettable ... unless Vitruvian Man can pull off a miracle on dirt.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

He opens his performance perched between two pieces of scaffolding in a recreation of Leonardo da Vinci's famous Vitruvian Man sketch – so there's a clue.

From BBC • May 9, 2025

It appears in such aesthetic marvels as nautilus shells, Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man," and Robert Pattinson's face.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2022

He looks like the Vitruvian Man, whom he would later draw—the perfectly proportional human whose outstretched limbs all touch the sides of a circle.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day