Mermaid Chart, a company offering text-based diagramming and workflow management tools, announced it has raised $7.5 million in seed funding. This funding milestone comes after the company unveiled its first line of enterprise products, designed to help professionals across industries better communicate, collaborate, and solve business problems through visuals and diagrams.
Knut Sveidqvist, the creator of the Mermaid open-source project, founded Mermaid Chart. The Mermaid project is a JavaScript-based charting and diagramming tool that won an award with over 8 million users in 2023, with nearly 65,000 GitHub stars. Mermaid Chart has been developed on top of Mermaid’s core components, offering additional features and tools to bring value to its enterprise customers.
Mermaid Chart users can create diagrams such as flowcharts, state diagrams, and mind maps faster than traditional GUI tools and collaborate on them with ease.
Mermaid Chart recently launched a new Visual Editor for flowcharts and an AI-powered diagram generator. This new suite of enterprise-grade products empowers businesses to easily create, adjust, and manage workflows from even the most complex diagrams. By utilizing the power of automation and AI, these products facilitate seamless visual collaboration among teams, enabling them to work together efficiently, no matter where they are located.
The Visual Editor represents a major leap forward where design customization has always been a limiting factor for adoption. And Mermaid AI opens Mermaid’s text-based approach to the world outside of software engineers and enables any user to render large complex visuals from plain text prompts without technical expertise. Combining these features and a full suite of collaboration tools positions Mermaid Chart to drive results for enterprise customers across all industries and sectors.
Mermaid Chart is set to significantly expand its software capabilities. The company plans to introduce automated documentation tools tailored for software engineers, advanced AI-driven diagramming features, and comprehensive workflow management solutions. It is also developing a full-service on-premise package designed for high-security organizations. This offering addresses the growing need for robust data security in software tools.
KEY QUOTES:
“The widespread interest in our Seed round underscores the demand for innovative text-based diagramming tooling across the enterprise world to streamline workflows and enhance communication. To have the creators of both GitLab and GitHub joining together in this round is true validation of what we’ve achieved.”
– Andrew Firestone, CEO, Mermaid Chart
“Our belief is that the future of software is open core and the future of visual collaboration is in text, voice, and automation. We will continue to build and give back to the Mermaid open-source community while expanding the technology that we’ve built to generate meaningful results for enterprise teams.”
– Knut Sveidqvist, CTO of Mermaid Chart
“Mermaid’s open-core is enjoyed by millions of software engineers globally, and its software is supported natively in GitLab, GitHub, and others. Mermaid Chart is expanding the community by bringing the benefits of Mermaid to all types of business users, leveraging AI as a catalyst. The use cases and business opportunities adjacent to the technology are significant and we’re excited to support the team in this next phase of growth.”
– Sid Sijbrandij, Co-Founder and CEO of GitLab and Founder of Open Core Ventures
“We are thrilled to invest in Mermaid Chart, a company that is changing the way people create and share diagrams and visuals. They are offering enterprises a suite of tools that support this constantly evolving landscape; one that calls for a simple yet powerful solution for creating diagrams and charts of varying complexity. We look forward to supporting the team as they continue to grow and innovate.”
– Jason McBride, Partner at M12
