Romanian startup DesignVerse raises $5.5M to modernize enterprise software with AI context layer

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Bucharest-based DesignVerse raised a $5.5M seed round co-led by Begin Capital and Gapminder VC with participation from Underline Ventures and strategic angels from Adobe, LSEG, UiPath and others. The startup is building an AI-powered “context layer” that generates production-ready applications from a company’s design systems, architecture standards, and internal documentation, integrating with tools like Figma, GitHub and modern frontend frameworks. DesignVerse says its approach can speed delivery by up to 65% and boost engineering output roughly threefold, and it cites EUROCONTROL as an early customer where it modernized a 15-year-old system in just over a month. The funding will expand the engineering team and accelerate growth across enterprise markets in Europe and the US while further developing its AI system for regulated, large-scale environments.

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Amount $5.5M Total raised
Date May 13, 2026 Announcement date
Investors UiPath Lead investors
Company designverse.ai Funded company

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DesignVerse
$5M to $10M