Romanian DesignVerse raises $5.5M to modernise legacy enterprise software

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.

While
general-purpose AI coding tools have made it easier to create prototypes and
simple applications, many organisations continue to face challenges integrating
AI-generated software into production environments that require reliability,
compliance and security. DesignVerse says its platform was built specifically
for enterprise and mission-critical environments, where software must integrate
safely with existing infrastructure.

Andrei
Manolache, CEO of DesignVerse, said large organisations still spend significant
time translating product design into production-ready software, often leading
to inefficiencies between teams.

DesignVerse
removes that friction by allowing teams to generate functional enterprise
applications directly from their design systems, validate behaviour earlier
with stakeholders, and streamline the transition from design to production.

The
new funding will be used to expand DesignVerse’s engineering team and
accelerate growth across enterprise markets in Europe and the United States.