Design Tools Startups

Spline is a web-based collaborative design platform for creating and shipping production-ready interactive 2D and 3D experiences to web, iOS, and Android. It serves design teams and enterprises seeking to build interactive digital products with real-time collaboration capabilities.

9 investors

Superside is an AI-first creative services company that combines a global team of designers, writers, motion artists and strategists with AI-powered workflows and its own creative management platform, delivered via subscription. It serves marketing and creative teams at enterprise brands, covering services such as ad creative, video, motion, branding and web design.

9 investors

Photoroom provides visual creation tools for e-commerce businesses to generate product images and marketing content. The platform serves over 1 million brands globally and processes billions of images annually.

8 investors

ReadMe lets companies build interactive developer hubs and documentation portals that combine support, tutorials, guides, and API exploration. It targets companies offering APIs that want to maintain up-to-date docs and grow developer communities.

8 investors

Universe makes a mobile-first website builder app that lets anyone design, build, and sell online from an iPhone, iPad, or Mac. The company serves individuals and businesses creating websites and online stores.

8 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

Supernova is a platform for creating, managing, documenting, and distributing design systems in one place, consolidating components, tokens, assets, and branding resources. It includes a Notion-style documentation editor and automation that syncs design and code across tools like Figma and code repositories for product and engineering teams.

7 investors

Draftbit is a visual development tool for building, launching, and iterating on mobile apps without writing code, while providing access to the underlying source code. It targets anyone wanting to turn an idea into a mobile app, in the no-code/low-code app development category.

6 investors

Great Question is a UX research platform that combines participant recruitment, study management, mixed-method research capabilities, and AI-powered analysis in a single system. It serves product managers, designers, UX researchers, and research operations teams across startups and enterprises seeking to consolidate fragmented research workflows.

6 investors

Mach9 builds automated feature-extraction software for transportation, telecom, and construction industries, enabling rapid extraction and mapping of large-scale infrastructure projects. The company serves surveyors, transportation agencies, and engineering firms in North America.

6 investors

Resolve builds software for reviewing 3D BIM (building information models) to help construction teams detect design issues early and reduce rework. The platform combines web-based collaboration, VR reviews, and AI-driven spatial navigation, and has been used on data center, pharma, water treatment, and healthcare projects.

6 investors

Thunkable is a no-code platform for building native mobile apps using a drag-and-drop interface, allowing users to design and publish apps to the App Store and Play Store. It targets non-technical users and developers who want to create mobile apps without traditional development tools.

6 investors

zeroheight provides a design system platform that lets product teams document, manage, and optimize their design systems for AI-assisted development and coding agents. It targets product and design teams building software.

6 investors

BioRender is a software tool that enables scientists to create and share professional scientific illustrations and figures. The platform serves researchers and scientists across life sciences disciplines globally.

5 investors

Zeplin builds developer tools for React engineers and design system teams, including Omlet, a component analytics tool that shows how and where React components and their props are used. The products help teams update, clean up, and maintain their component libraries.

5 investors

Anima builds a design intelligence platform that converts visual designs into working code, powering visual-to-code workflows for software developers and AI agents. The platform serves developers, design teams, and AI-powered coding platforms, enabling translation from design intent to production software.

4 investors

Clipdrop offers AI-powered image editing tools including background removal, object cleanup, image upscaling, and text-to-image generation. The platform serves creators and developers through both direct web tools and an embeddable API for product integration.

4 investors

Ditto is a content management system that centralizes product language standards, terminology, and content patterns, then enforces consistency across design, development, and code tools. It helps teams maintain on-brand copy through AI-assisted suggestions, version tracking, and localization capabilities.

4 investors

HeroUI is a modern UI library for web and mobile applications that provides pre-built components and design systems to help developers build user interfaces quickly and consistently. It serves software development teams and individual developers who need customizable, accessible components.

4 investors

Iliad develops Aqueduct, a node-based procedural material engine with integrated AI capabilities for creating and editing custom textures and physically-based rendering (PBR) materials. The tools serve game developers, 3D artists, and creative professionals working with digital content creation.

4 investors

Jitter is an AI-powered animation software that converts static designs into animated videos and assets. The platform serves creative teams and designers who need to produce on-brand animations at scale using natural language prompts, presets, and AI-powered variations.

4 investors

Parade is an AI-based tool that helps startup founders generate a visual brand identity and create web and marketing assets through a question-based process. It automates the design of websites, emails, and social content without requiring a designer.

4 investors

Rally is a user research CRM platform that enables teams to scale research operations, manage access control, and collaborate across departments while securing customer insights and data. It integrates with tools like Salesforce and Snowflake and caters to product managers, designers, marketers, and research operations professionals.

4 investors

Unlayer provides an embeddable, no-code content creation suite (email, landing pages, popups, documents) that integrates into SaaS platforms, CRMs, and enterprise applications through APIs and builders. The platform powers millions of user-created designs across over 1,000 platforms without requiring customers to build their own editor code.

4 investors