Design Tools Startups

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 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.

8 investors

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.

8 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.

8 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.

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 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.

7 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

3 investors

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

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

Milk Video is a platform for creating and distributing short-form video content, allowing marketers to quickly collect and produce customer testimonials, employee testimonies, and expert commentary.

3 investors