Amount Raised
$4.5 Million
Round Type
Seed
Description
Frontend devtools startup Kombai has raised $4.5 million in a seed round led by Stellaris Venture Partners and Foundation Capital, the Pune-based company said on Tuesday.The funding also saw participation from some chief technology officers and software startup executives as angel investors.Kombai, founded by two former Mindtickle senior executives, said it will use the capital to continue investing in research and development, accelerate improvements to its base models, build compatibility with a range of libraries and frameworks used by developer teams and elevate the developer experience around the product.The company builds new artificial intelligence models that can understand and code user interface (UI) designs like humans. It is also set to launch its public research preview on Wednesday.With a mission to make frontend development more efficient for the 5 million frontend and 15 million fullstack developers around the world, Kombai lets developers with design files get production-quality UI code with just one click per component.Powered ByVideo Player is loading.Play VideoPlaySkip BackwardMuteCurrent Time 0:00/Duration 0:00Loaded: 0%Stream Type LIVESeek to live, currently behind liveLIVERemaining Time -0:00 1xPlayback RateChaptersChaptersDescriptionsdescriptions off, selectedCaptionscaptions and subtitles off, selectedAudio TrackPicture-in-PictureFullscreenThis is a modal window.No compatible source was found for this media.Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window.TextColorWhiteBlackRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanOpacityOpaqueSemi-TransparentText BackgroundColorBlackWhiteRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanOpacityOpaqueSemi-TransparentTransparentCaption Area BackgroundColorBlackWhiteRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanOpacityTransparentSemi-TransparentOpaqueFont Size50%75%100%125%150%175%200%300%400%Text Edge StyleNoneRaisedDepressedUniformDropshadowFont FamilyProportional Sans-SerifMonospace Sans-SerifProportional SerifMonospace SerifCasualScriptSmall CapsReset restore all settings to the default valuesDoneClose Modal DialogEnd of dialog window.AdvertisementThe UI code can then be downloaded or copied into integrated development environments, modified and incorporated in codebases.Discover the stories of your interestBlockchain5 StoriesCyber-safety7 StoriesFintech9 StoriesE-comm9 StoriesML8 StoriesEdtech6 StoriesUser experience (UX) has become increasingly important for businesses, because of which user interfaces have become more and more sophisticated, leading to increased demand and complexity of frontend development, Kombai cofounder and CEO Dipanjan Dey said.“Developers still spend a significant amount of their working time, ranging from 25% to 75%, on procedural code such as styles (CSS), DOM (HTML), and framework-specific boilerplate,” Dey said. “These tasks are often viewed as monotonous and counterproductive by developers
Who else raised in Software and Artificial Intelligence around the same time
Companies in the same sectors as Kombai that raised within 45 days of this round, from Fundz verified event records.
- Konect.ai raised $5.5M (Seed) on October 5, 2023.
- Aampe raised $7.5M (Funding Round) on October 5, 2023.
- ClearFeed raised $2.7M (Seed) on October 4, 2023.
- Prompt AI raised $5M (Seed) on September 28, 2023.
- Giftpack AI raised an undisclosed amount (Funding Round) on September 21, 2023.
- Gizmo raised $3.5M (Seed) on September 21, 2023.
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