Big News: ion has raised $1.8M
Big News: ion has raised $1.8M
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We’re excited to announce that ion design closed a $1.8 million seed round from Y Combinator, Founders inc, Peak Capital, TwentyTwo VC, Lobster Capital, Protocol Labs, and other product-obsessed angels.
Our mission is simple:
Turn every product thinker into a builder, elevating craft instead of automating it away.
Product orgs need to change to survive
The people who understand your users best - designers, PMs, growth leads - can’t ship their own ideas. They sketch, spec, wait weeks, and watch the vision deteriorate with each hand-off.
The blocker isn’t code; it’s our tooling and product systems. Every layer of communication stretches the feedback loop from hours to weeks, letting bad ideas stay in prod and good ones die in docs.
Winners of the future aren’t the best guessers, they’re the fastest learners. If your team is pixel-pushing instead of shipping, it’s falling behind and vulnerable to new-age competitors.
The world has changed.
Three big shifts have happened in the last few years:
1. AI can now write production grade code.
2. Design systems give everyone a common language.
3. Modern dev environments are API-ready
Put those together and you get a new kind of workspace where “think”, “design”, and “build” live in the same place.
Meet ion
ion is an AI-powered visual builder. It’s the development environment for your non technical team to express their ideas.
ion will create a world where:
- Designers shape entire design systems without writing tickets.
- PMs refine flows in real time, straight from user feedback.
- Growth teams launch experiments before the morning standup ends.
When anyone who spots a problem can ship the fix, companies move faster, products improve, and creativity explodes.
It’s built for organizations
ion is a builder with Figma’s precision, Github’s rigor, and Cursor’s power.
ion is specifically built for the nuances of working at an organization. It integrates with design systems, existing components, external libraries, API specs, data models, and test suites to give the ideal environment for non technical folks to ship safely. Our system pinpoints where changes need to happen, so you can iterate without breaking unintended files.
In the future, PRs won’t just come from engineering, they’ll come from PMs, designers, and growth teams. ion will hold them to the same standards, tests, and rigor as your current code, without over complicating the process.
Thank you
To our investors, early design-partners, and community, thank you for believing that craft still matters. This round lets us grow the team and open ion to more builders.
Curious? Try us out at ion.design or reach out to us at founders@ion.design
Onward,
Samraaj, Samuel, & the ion Design team
We’re excited to announce that ion design closed a $1.8 million seed round from Y Combinator, Founders inc, Peak Capital, TwentyTwo VC, Lobster Capital, Protocol Labs, and other product-obsessed angels.
Our mission is simple:
Turn every product thinker into a builder, elevating craft instead of automating it away.
Product orgs need to change to survive
The people who understand your users best - designers, PMs, growth leads - can’t ship their own ideas. They sketch, spec, wait weeks, and watch the vision deteriorate with each hand-off.
The blocker isn’t code; it’s our tooling and product systems. Every layer of communication stretches the feedback loop from hours to weeks, letting bad ideas stay in prod and good ones die in docs.
Winners of the future aren’t the best guessers, they’re the fastest learners. If your team is pixel-pushing instead of shipping, it’s falling behind and vulnerable to new-age competitors.
The world has changed.
Three big shifts have happened in the last few years:
1. AI can now write production grade code.
2. Design systems give everyone a common language.
3. Modern dev environments are API-ready
Put those together and you get a new kind of workspace where “think”, “design”, and “build” live in the same place.
Meet ion
ion is an AI-powered visual builder. It’s the development environment for your non technical team to express their ideas.
ion will create a world where:
- Designers shape entire design systems without writing tickets.
- PMs refine flows in real time, straight from user feedback.
- Growth teams launch experiments before the morning standup ends.
When anyone who spots a problem can ship the fix, companies move faster, products improve, and creativity explodes.
It’s built for organizations
ion is a builder with Figma’s precision, Github’s rigor, and Cursor’s power.
ion is specifically built for the nuances of working at an organization. It integrates with design systems, existing components, external libraries, API specs, data models, and test suites to give the ideal environment for non technical folks to ship safely. Our system pinpoints where changes need to happen, so you can iterate without breaking unintended files.
In the future, PRs won’t just come from engineering, they’ll come from PMs, designers, and growth teams. ion will hold them to the same standards, tests, and rigor as your current code, without over complicating the process.
Thank you
To our investors, early design-partners, and community, thank you for believing that craft still matters. This round lets us grow the team and open ion to more builders.
Curious? Try us out at ion.design or reach out to us at founders@ion.design
Onward,
Samraaj, Samuel, & the ion Design team
Inspect.
Edit. Ship!
Inspect.
Edit. Ship!
Iterate on your live product without bothering your engineers—while maintaining code quality.
Iterate on your live product without bothering your engineers—while maintaining code quality.