Bucharest-based DesignVerse, the enterprise software startup using AI to modernise complex legacy systems, has raised more than $5.5 million in seed funding as demand grows for tools that can safely accelerate software development in mission-critical industries.
The round included investment from Begin Capital, Gapminder VC, Underline Ventures, and strategic angel investors from companies including Adobe, LSEG and UiPath. Prior to the seed round, the company raised $850,000 in pre-seed funding to build its core platform and begin working with early enterprise design partners.
Founded by former Oracle product design lead Andrei Manolache and software engineer Robert Dragutoiu, DesignVerse develops AI-powered infrastructure for organisations operating complex software environments across sectors, including aviation, finance, cybersecurity and government.
The company’s platform generates software using a customer’s existing design systems, component libraries, technical documentation and internal rules, enabling applications to be built in line with current architectures and engineering standards. The approach is intended to reduce the manual translation between design and engineering teams, a process that often creates delays and inconsistencies in large organisations.
