As companies increasingly turn to tools like Figma to design their software, migrating design elements like color schemes from the design tool to your codebase can be a challenge. manual and time consuming process.
supernova is an early stage startup that wants to make that easier by acting as a bridge between your design and development team, making it easy to change parts of the design in a way automatic.
Today, Y Combinator graduates announced a $4.8 million seed round.
“The idea of Supernova comes from the difference between designers and developers. I think, there is some kind of communication block between them. Also, the worlds of designers and developers are pretty separate from each other, and so anything you can do to help designers and developers work together better will really help. long-term effects, and that’s especially true in larger organizations,” company CEO and co-founder Jiri Trecak told TechCrunch.
The software acts as a bridge, connecting your disparate tools and design repositories with your coding tools to facilitate connectivity between all of these tools at scale. great. Additionally, if you have a particularly complex workflow, you can build custom applications or scripts on top of Supernova to extend the tool further, Trecak explains.
He says an easy way to understand how this works is to imagine you have a brand like Spotify and you need to change your logo color from the familiar green to a new color. A job like this would take months to do manually, but with Supernova you just change the color scheme in your designer and run the scripts, and it cascades over the entire base Codebase, automatically change color.
He said it can work across multiple design tools, and Supernova will still make changes regardless.
He founded the company in the Czech Republic in 2018 and became the first startup from that country to be accepted into Y Combinator in the winter of 2019. Trecak now operates the company outside of San Francisco. and the company launched the current version of the product last year. The engineering team remains in the Czech Republic.
They have built a user base of over 1,000 customers, several dozen of whom are large enterprise users. The company currently employs about 30 people, with plans to increase that number with new funding.
When growing the company, Trecak says he’s focused a lot on building a diverse employee base and now has employees representing eight or nine different nationalities. “This is something we are very focused on. We’ve tried to be very careful on this, and we’ll try even harder when it comes to the US market,” he said.
Today’s funding was led by Wing Venture Capital with participation from EQT Ventures and Kaya VC, along with some well-known industry angels.
