- Modulz — a visual code editor company — announced it raised $4.2 million in a seed round of funding
Modulz founder Colm Tuite announced that the company has raised $4.2 million in funding. What is Modulz? The company has built a visual code editor that empowers teams to design, develop, document, and deploy a design system without writing code.
Initially, Modulz was funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign where it brought in $36,000 from 394 backers who pre-paid for early access.
The $4.2 million seed funding round was provided by LocalGlobe, Frontline and several high-profile angel investors including Ryan Hoover (Product Hunt founder), Vedika Jain (Weekend Fund), Des Traynor (Intercom co-founder), Jina Anne (Clarity founder), TinyVC, and several other great investors.
Now Modulz has a team of 9 people and they are working on a fresh take on the “developer handoff” workflow. Design teams typically draw static representations of their component library and then “throw them over the wall” to their engineering team. While sharing assets between design and engineering teams usually works well, but existing workflows tend to be disjointed and tooling is relatively archaic.
Modulz is empowering design teams to “handoff” a complete design system including the following features:
1.) Theme (set of reusable tokens for designing consistent components)
2.) Components (production-ready component library published to NPM)
3.) Styleguide (automatically generated styleguide with component examples, code snippets, navigation, search, etc.)
4.) Integrations (export design system to Sketch, Figma, and Framer so your design team can utilize your symbols, components, and styles)
Every time you publish a new version of your design system from Modulz, all of the export targets update automatically. This way your whole team is kept in sync.
