As firms more and more flip to instruments like Figma to design their software program, transferring the design parts like colour schemes from the design instrument to your code base generally is a time-consuming and guide course of.
Supernova is an early-stage startup that desires to make it simpler by appearing as a bridge between your design crew and your growth crew, making it simple to vary design items in an automatic approach.
Today the Y Combinator graduates introduced a $4.8 million seed spherical.
“The idea for Supernova comes from the discrepancy between designers and developers. There is, I think, sort of a communication block between them. Also, the design and developer worlds are quite disconnected from each other, and so any kind of thing that you can do to help designers and developers work better together actually goes a long way, and that’s especially true in larger organizations,” firm CEO and co-founder Jiri Trecak informed TechCrunch.
The software program acts as a bridge of kinds, connecting your totally different instruments and design repositories together with your coding instruments to facilitate the connection between all of those instruments at scale. What’s extra, if in case you have a very advanced workflow, you may construct customized apps or scripts on high of Supernova to increase the tooling even additional, Trecak defined.
He says a simple technique to perceive how this works is to think about you will have a model like Spotify and it’s essential change the colour of your brand from the acquainted inexperienced to a brand new colour. An endeavor like this may take months to do manually, however with Supernova, you simply change your colour scheme in your design tooling and run the scripts, and it’ll cascade throughout all the code base, altering the colours mechanically.
He mentioned it may well work throughout a number of design instruments and Supernova will nonetheless transfer the adjustments regardless.
He began the corporate within the Czech Republic in 2018 and have become the primary startup from that nation to be accepted into Y Combinator within the winter of 2019. Today, Trecak runs the corporate out of San Francisco, and the corporate launched the present iteration of the product final yr. The engineering crew stays within the Czech Republic.
They have constructed up a person base of over 1,000 prospects, a number of dozen of whom are giant enterprise customers. The firm at present has about 30 individuals, with plans to extend that quantity with the brand new funding.
As he grows the corporate, Trecak says that he’s very a lot targeted on constructing a various worker base and at present has workers who symbolize eight or 9 totally different nationalities. “This is something that is very much our focus. We have been trying to be quite diligent about this and we will try to be even more so as we go to the U.S. market,” he mentioned.
Today’s funding was led by Wing Venture Capital with participation from EQT Ventures and Kaya VC, together with a number of distinguished trade angels.