64 Best Urban Design Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Urban Design Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 448 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $8.6b. The average funding per company in this subset is $133.7m.

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

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$72.2m

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Arzeda is a biotechnology and software company designing custom microorganisms for industrial applications through computational enzyme design, protein optimization, and metabolic engineering.

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6

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$722.0m

Money raised

Cerebras is an AI company building computer systems designed to accelerate AI workflows.

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2

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$103.5k

Money raised

Terminal Africa is the developer of a delivery aggregator platform designed to make it easier for Africans to send and receive products globally.

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$226.0m

Money raised

Writer is an AI writing assistant developed for content teams. It provides individuals, teams, and companies the ability to create and enforce a writing style guide to help them improve their branding.

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$3.0m

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Particle Foundation is a Reno, Nevada-based art company.

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$66.0m

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

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$3.1m

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Aesthetic is a creative automation tool for digital marketers

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$133.4k

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Scintilla Iceland is an interior textile design company based in Reykjavik, Iceland.

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$200.0k

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Foundation is a blockchain company in which one can create, explore, and collect digital art with non-fungible tokens (NFTs)

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$491.5m

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InVision is New York City based startup building a collaborative and wireframing design tool.

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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9

Funding Rounds

$781.9m

Money raised

Webflow is a company providing a design and hosting platform for users to create websites.

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$8.1m

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Atoms makes shoes for everyday wear. Made with elastic laces, copper lining, breathable materials, and simple design.

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Vollebak is a British clothing brand focusing on utilizing technology and science to construct "clothing for the future."

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$468.7m

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Minted is a design marketplace that connects users with artists to help them create something one-of-a-kind.

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8

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$40.0m

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Verse is a Barcelona-based payments platform.

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5

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$31.4m

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Company developing collaboration platform for teams to create and maintain design system documentation

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3

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$670.0k

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A global platform for creating a blog, website, or online store. It was founded in 2007 and acquired by Square in 2018. It is located in San Francisco, California.

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1

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$2.6m

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CoFluent Design was an electronic system level company that was acquired by Intel in 2011.

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$426.9m

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Typeform is a technology company that allows users to build well-designed, conversation-based forms for collecting data

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Uxpin is a startup from Poland that make UI software tools.

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$42.6m

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A data-powered spreadsheet company for businesses. It was founded in 2016 and is located in Berlin, Germany.

8

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$544.0m

Money raised

Marketplace connecting independent shop owners and brands with local retailers.

2

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$46.0m

Money raised

Zazzle is an online retailer founded in 1999 by Matt Wilsey.

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$267.4m

Money raised

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

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$2.1m

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Spatial supplies a social understanding of location, founded by Griffin Morris, Lyden Foust and Will Kiessling.

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$1.7m

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ClipDrop is an application developed to turn mobile photons into professional product visuals. The application and the company behind it were acquired by Stability AI in 2023.

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$28.8m

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InteraXon develops and produces brain-sensing technology such as the Muse headband, an EEG device that interprets mental activity and aims to help with meditation and promote calmness.

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$10.0k

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CompleteSet is a company that acts as a world archive for collectibles, founded by Gary Darna and Jaime Rump.

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$12.8m

Money raised

Nodes is an education company in India founded by Prajakta Kulkarni.

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2

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$14.3m

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General Assembly offers short and long courses in web and mobile development, product management, data science and more, online and in-person, across 15 campuses in 4 continents.

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$351.0m

Money raised

Cedar is a company founded in 2016 by Arel Lidow.

4

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$57.3m

Money raised

Artsy is the largest online art marketplace with more than 1 million artworks by over 100,000 artists.

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$20.0m

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Tool for digital design, enabling designers to share and collaborate on their projects.

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2

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$10.6m

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An e-learning company that has created a bootcamp for adults to gain skills necessary for careers in technology. It was acquired by Chegg in 2019. It was founded in 2012 and is located in Brooklyn, New York.

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$52.5m

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Developer of a real estate marketing platform to help real estate professionals to focus on lead management and collaborate effectively. The company's platform is for real estate professionals that are featuring MLS integration, high-resolution visuals, responsive design, mobile optimization, lead management tools, and marketing automation software for email, social media, and other channels, enabling clients to grow their businesses online.

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$5.1m

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UXcam is a mobile app analytics platform for developers.

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$10.7m

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Simplified is a collaborative design tool to design flyers, business cards, or brand logos in seconds. Thousands of templates to bring your brand to life.

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$1.3b

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

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$5.8m

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Made of Air is a carbon storage company converting captured carbon into biomass and biochar for negative emissions products.

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$192.4m

Money raised

MURAL is a San Francisco-based software company developing digital workspaces for visual collaboration.

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$448.6m

Money raised

Houzz is a company providing an online platform for home remodeling, architecture, interior design, decorating, landscaping and home improvement.

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2

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$46.0m

Money raised

Printify is a marketplace connecting online merchants to major print on demand and dropshipping manufacturers worldwide.

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Nifty Gateway is a marketplace for NFT's and digital items.

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$50.0m

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VeeFriends is an NFT project developed by Gary Vaynerchuk.

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2

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$75.0m

Money raised

Duda is a responsive website builder for digital marketing agencies, hosting companies, and online directories.

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$20.0m

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Splitwise is a company founded in 2011 by Jonathan Bittner, Marshall Weir and Ryan Laughlin.

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1

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$100.0m

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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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7

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$977.0m

Money raised

Knotel is a company founded in 2016 by Amol Sarva.

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$1.2m

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ARTBnk is an enterprise FinTech platform purpose-built to enable institutions to manage art as a liquid financial asset.

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3

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$76.5m

Money raised

Havenly is a company founded in 2014 by Lee Mayer, Jessie Dixon and Emily Motayed.

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$16.0m

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Quantum Art is the first platform focused solely on photographers and their work, curating and dropping NFT collections and making NFT photography easily accessible for both artists and collectors

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$1.5m

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A startup focused on wearable technology design for workplace safety. It was founded in 2015 and is located in Barcelona, Spain.

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$7.5m

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Strikingly is a company providing an online web platform for building mobile-optimized websites. It participated in the W13 cohort of Y Combinator.

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$6.0m

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Art Blocks is a non-fungible token art collectible marketplace.

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$400.0k

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Galileo AI is a company that has developed a platform to create customized user interface designs for mobile apps.

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$38.0m

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Leadpages provides website and landing page building tools for small businesses.

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$2.0m

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Torus Labs is a Singapore-based company founded in 2018 by Gregory Prisament.

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$6.0m

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Ecomedes is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2016 by Paul Shahriari, Michael Shahriari and Kathleen Egan.

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$135.0m

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HOVER transforms smartphone photos of a home to a fully measured, customizable 3D model to estimate a project and visualize what a final project will look like.

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$8.0m

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Betabrand is an online clothing community, based in San Francisco. We design, manufacture, and release new products nonstop.

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$8.0m

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SaaS-driven virtual reality-based tools for the architecture, engineering, and construction industry

2

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$60.0m

Money raised

Brooklinen is a manufacturer and supplier of sheets and pillows

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$5.2m

Money raised

SeedLegals is a company founded in 2016 by Anthony Rose, Laurent Laffy and Anthony Drogon.

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