16 Best Designer Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Designer Startups

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There are 16 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $2.5b. The average funding per company in this subset is $155.8m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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$66.0m

Money raised

Superplastic is a creative product and experience studio founded in 2018.

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7

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$114.3m

Money raised

Geltor is a cellular agriculture company making essential proteins, such as collagen and gelatin, using microbes in their own bio-fermentation recombinant protein production facility.

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8

Funding Rounds

$267.4m

Money raised

Formlabs is a 3D printing system company that provides digital fabrications for industries

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10

Funding Rounds

$1.3b

Money raised

Rent the Runway is a New York City-based company founded in 2009 by Jennifer Hyman.

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1

Funding Rounds

$100.0m

Money raised

A consumer goods company specializing in ethical luxury bedding. It was founded in 2014 and is located in Summit, New Jersey.

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2

Funding Rounds

$28.0m

Money raised

Mejuri is a company founded in 2013 by Majed Masad.

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1

Funding Rounds

$5.5m

Money raised

Platform that collects, stores, and distributes design tokens and assets to help manage brand identity automatically.

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1

Funding Rounds

$425.0m

Money raised

Formstack is a workplace productivity platform helps organizations digitize, automate workflows, and fix processes—all without code.

3

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$12.6m

Money raised

Anima App provides tools that enable web designers to generated websites or download HTML/CSS code.

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1

Funding Rounds

$3.4m

Money raised

Filestage is a software that helps creative teams to manage reviews and approvals of videos, audio files, designs and documents

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4

Funding Rounds

$77.5m

Money raised

VICIS is a Seattle-based company founded in 2013.

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4

Funding Rounds

$42.8m

Money raised

Summersalt is a company founded in 2017.

1

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$100.0k

Money raised

Voog is a Tartu-based company founded in 2007 by Toivo Annus, Tõnu Runnel and Priit Haamer.

1

Funding Rounds

$535.0k

Money raised

LayerVault is a New York-based designer company founded by Kelly Sutton.

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1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

Fourpost is a company founded in 2018.

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STRT is a company founded in 2019.

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