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.

7 investors

Superside is a creative services platform that provides enterprise teams with access to vetted global creative talent and AI-powered tools for design, video, and content production. It serves brands and enterprises looking to scale creative output faster and more cost-effectively than traditional agencies or freelance marketplaces.

7 investors

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

6 investors

Draftbit is a low-code platform that enables users to build web and mobile applications for iOS and Android using visual editing, AI agents, and integrated development tools. The platform serves app developers and builders seeking to reduce development time through drag-and-drop interfaces and direct code access.

5 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.

5 investors

Onuniverse is a website builder that allows users to create sites using a visual drag-and-drop editor without coding, and includes e-commerce functionality for launching online stores.

5 investors

Zeplin is a collaboration platform that helps product teams organize design documentation and connect designs to code. It serves design, product, and development teams working on complex projects.

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

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.

4 investors

Supernova provides a design system platform that supplies context and ground truth data to AI agents, enabling developers and designers to improve agent outputs while reducing token costs through scoped, updatable contexts distributed via MCP endpoints.

4 investors

Thunkable provides a no-code mobile app development platform that allows users to build applications without programming expertise. The platform serves creators, entrepreneurs, and organizations seeking to develop mobile apps with minimal coding knowledge.

4 investors

Zeroheight provides a centralized platform for managing design systems, enabling coordination between design tools and development teams to ensure consistent implementation and reference.

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.

3 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.

3 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.

3 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.

3 investors

ReadMe is a developer hub that provides API documentation, monitoring, and developer engagement tools for API-first companies. The platform enables teams to create documentation, monitor APIs in production, and build communities around their developer products.

3 investors

Resolve provides web, iPad, and VR platforms for accessing and collaborating on building information models (BIM) in construction. The platform enables teams to identify coordination issues, track problems, and make faster decisions on complex mechanical and infrastructure projects.

3 investors

Alkali provides AI-powered takeoff and estimation software for structural steel projects, automatically detecting and quantifying steel members, calculating tonnage, and generating nesting plans. The platform serves structural steel fabricators and estimators, integrating with tools like Tekla and Bluebeam.

2 investors

Alloy is a cloud-based platform that enables teams to prototype and build product changes using AI by connecting their codebase or capturing pages via browser extension, then pushing production-ready code directly to GitHub. It serves product teams and developers across any company looking to accelerate product iteration without local environment setup.

2 investors

Clay makes collaborative 3D design software that lets users create and work together on three-dimensional projects. The product targets anyone seeking accessible tools for group-based 3D creation.

2 investors

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

2 investors

Friz is a platform that consolidates social media content creation, publication, and advertising management across multiple networks into a single interface.

2 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.

2 investors