Design Startups

Webflow is a visual content management system and web design platform that enables creative teams to build, design, and publish brand-forward websites without heavy reliance on developers. The platform serves creative agencies, marketing teams, and enterprises seeking to maintain brand consistency while executing complex web experiences at scale.

41 investors

Onlook builds developer and design tools that bridge the gap between creative teams and implementation, using AI to enhance the creative process.

7 investors

Lightberry develops AI software that enables robots to understand and respond to voice commands, allowing non-technical users to control and program robots through conversation rather than traditional coding.

6 investors

Awesomic is a talent marketplace that connects businesses with freelance contractors and creative talent to complete projects and tasks. The platform serves companies looking to hire independent workers for work assignments.

5 investors

a0.dev provides a platform that generates React Native projects to accelerate mobile app development for developers. The service aims to reduce typical development timelines by automating project scaffolding and boilerplate code generation.

4 investors

Adam is an AI agent that connects to CAD software, PLM systems, and supplier tools to automate hardware engineering workflows like BOM management, design reviews, sourcing, and RFQ generation. It serves hardware engineering teams and operates across Onshape, SolidWorks, Fusion, and other existing tools without requiring data migration.

4 investors

A marketplace where independent designers sell digital assets such as fonts, graphics, templates, photos, and themes to other creators.

4 investors

Interfere is a real-time monitoring platform that helps engineers detect and understand bugs and issues in production applications before users encounter them, providing root cause analysis and suggested fixes.

4 investors

Avocademy is an online bootcamp that teaches UX/UI design skills to career changers with no prior design experience, preparing them for roles with a job guarantee. The program includes design foundations (8-16 weeks), career services, portfolio building, and interview preparation to help graduates land positions making $85K per year.

3 investors

Design Arena is a platform that evaluates and ranks AI models' design and UI generation capabilities through crowdsourced pairwise comparisons. Users vote on anonymized outputs from competing models to build community-driven leaderboards of AI performance.

3 investors

DraftAid uses AI to automate the conversion of 3D CAD models into 2D manufacturing drawings for engineers. The platform serves engineering teams working on infrastructure and industrial projects, reducing manual drafting time and improving consistency.

3 investors

Marengo uses AI to automate engineering design for data centers, aiming to speed up and reduce the cost of the design process. It works with large-scale data center builders.

3 investors

2 investors

Aesthetic uses AI to generate images based on a user's personal visual style, producing results in seconds.

2 investors

AI.Fashion provides a platform to fashion brands for creating digital prototypes of unreleased garments before production and generating photorealistic product images scaled across different sizes. The tools help reduce manufacturing waste and improve customer fit visibility during the purchase decision.

2 investors

Designbase offers an interface design tool that converts visual designs into code, aimed at small teams and resource-constrained organizations.

2 investors

Pixate provides a runtime engine for iOS that lets designers and developers style native mobile applications using CSS, with support for vector graphics and live style updates.

2 investors

Waypoint provides an email layer designed for software teams building SaaS products, marketplaces, and fintech applications. The company was launched in 2023 and focuses on simplifying product email integration.

2 investors

A marketplace where artists submit designs that the community votes on, with winning designs produced as physical paper goods including greeting cards, notebooks, and wrapping paper.

1 investor

Coasts is a local-first, open source tool that enables parallel development environments by spawning isolated runtimes for AI coding agents working with git worktrees. It integrates with any agentic coding solution and supports hybrid local-remote runtime setups.

1 investor

Hera reviews mechanical engineering drawings (prints) automatically, checking parts against current drawings and catching missed callouts in minutes rather than the days senior engineers spend reading prints by hand. It targets manufacturing and industrial teams, keeping the review process auditable and on-premises.

1 investor

Midrender is an AI-powered animation creation tool that allows users to generate and edit high-quality animations using plain language descriptions. The platform supports both manual visual editing and agent-based automation, integrating into existing design workflows via CLI or MCP to keep animations consistent with brand guidelines.

1 investor

Pixelapse provides version control and collaboration software for design work, allowing designers to track design iterations, share files, and coordinate with peers.

1 investor

Sol is a browser-based IDE that allows developers to run multiple coding agents in parallel within organized tabs, tabs, and workspaces, eliminating context switching between documentation, dashboards, and code terminals.

1 investor