Frontend devtool startup Kombai raises $4.5 million
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.
The UI code can then be downloaded or copied into integrated development environments, modified and incorporated in codebases.
User 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. Kombai enables developers to spend less time on
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