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Dessn raises $6M for its production focused design tool
New types of design tools, such asPerpexity-owned Visual Electric,Figma-owned Weavy,Flora, and Krea, have risen in popularity in the last few years, thanks to AI. These tools bank on the promise that, with AI, a product team with designers can iterate through variations quickly. A new design startup,Dessn, now backed by $6 million in funding, believes that design tools that don’t let you work directly on your codebase can limit you from being able to imagine new workflows and features. That’s why Dessn developed technology that allows startups to run their codebases in the cloud without any setup cost. To do so, it abstracts away the dependencies that make it necessary for a codebase to run locally. Because Dessn works in a production environment, it’s easier for designers to hand off their work to developers, the startup says. Current customers include teams at health company Color, voice AI company Wispr, and fintech Mercury. Founded by Gabriella Hachem and Nim Cheema, the company today announced its $6 million funding round was led by Connect Ventures, with participation from Betaworks and N49P. “When we started the company two years ago, our whole thesis was [that] the code is going to get commoditized — and in a world where code is insanely cheap, you just get a lot more software, and then design becomes a way that’s a differentiator,” Cheema told TechCrunch over a call. The design tool is not built for ground-up ideation, such as a Lovable or v0 by Vercel, where you can play around with new ideas. Instead, Dessn says it’s useful only for the teams that have an existing codebase and want to iterate on it. Cheema noted that the tough part for Dessn was to build an infrastructure that is capable of running codebases with different backend architectures, without needing a developer to get started. Because of the low setup cost, companies that adopt Dessn don’t have to move over from their design tool right away. “The one thing that’s great about Dessn is that we don’t create switching costs. It’s not like you have to drop all of Figma now, and you have to come to Dessn for everything. You can come in and use it for one project and then another one. That’s kind of what we’re seeing happen. And it’s so easy to share a Dessn link, which isn’t possible with Cursor or Claude Code,” Hachem said. Dessn, like other AI tools, lets you prompt your way into creating new designs. However, some designers might like old-school toolbars to move things around. But the startup doesn’t think that is necessary. Hachem said that she and her co-founder are token maximalists — people who would spend more tokens to get to a result even if it costs more — and would rather spin up a toolbar for a particular context than keep a static one. In the age of AI, tools are often trying to work with each other to move data from one place to another easily as part of task automation. At the moment, Dessn doesn’t have any integrations. But it plans to integrate tools like Slack, where you can call up Dessn and ask the tool to create prototypes based on ongoing discussions. Another tool it thinks could be useful to integrate is a meeting notetaker like Granola, which can feed it discussions from a meeting to create designs. However, the company said that one integration it doesn’t want to do is Figma, because it thinks that would take teams away from production, and it goes against Dessn’s ethos. Dessn lets you compile one repository for free and try out five prompts per week to let clients get a taste of the tools. It plans then start from $39 per user per month, which unlocks more prompt limits, and based on the tier, public links, and the ability to opt out of AI training. Betaworks partner (and former TechCrunch editor) Jordan Crook said that Dessn would be a tool Figma built if the latter started today. “Dessn is the only product that has perfect fidelity within the code base/production, rather than trying to design and turn it into code, or prompt via design system. Plus, Dessn is built to be a truly delightful and almost emotional experience for users, rather than just a utility,” Crook told TechCrunch over email. The company has four people currently, and while it intends to stay small, it plans to add a few more people to the team.
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HrdWyr Raises $13 Million to Build AI Native Chips for Physical AI
The funding round, led by Ideaspring Capital, also saw participation from Singularity AMC, Avatar Growth Capital and existing investor Persistent Systems.
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TSMC Approves Fresh $20 Bn for Arizona Chip Plant, $31.3 Bn for Future Fabs
The chipmaker ramps up spending on advanced capacity amid rising AI demand and fresh speculation about Tesla’s future chip plans.
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In IT Firms, AI is Boosting Revenue Per Employee—at the Cost of Employees
AI is boosting IT firms’ margins and employee productivity faster than revenue growth, signalling a structural shift away from the long-standing headcount-led model.
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Google Relies on AI for 75% of Its Code, Yet Engineers Now Deliver ‘More’
Developers focus on outcomes, experimentation, and architectural design, indicating a shift towards greater creativity and problem-solving.
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OpenAI Deployment Company Business Unit Launched to Build, Deploy AI Systems for Enterprises
OpenAI, on Monday, announced the creation of the OpenAI Deployment Company, a new business unit dedicated to building and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) systems for enterprises. The announcement comes just a week after Anthropic launched a new enterprise AI service company, highlighting the continuing rivalry between the two. OpenAI's project is wider in scope and aims to bridge the gap between "having access to AI" and "actually using AI" to drive measurable business results. The AI giant has partnered with 19 global investment firms, consultancies, and system integrators.
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Google I/O 2026: Gemini Omni Video Model Reportedly in Testing Ahead of Annual Developer Conference
Google may be preparing to expand Gemini's video generation capabilities with a new model called Gemini Omni. A fresh leak suggests the tool will let users create and edit AI-generated videos directly within Gemini. Early demos show the model producing more realistic motion, cleaner text rendering, and improved scene composition. The feature has not been announced officially, but its appearance ahead of Google I/O 2026 suggests Google could soon reveal new plans for AI-powered video creation.
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Indian Armed Forces Bet on Sarvam, CoRover.ai to Prepare for AI Warfare
As militaries worldwide race to integrate AI into warfare, India appears to be moving from experimentation toward building its own sovereign military AI ecosystem.
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Applied Materials, TSMC Deepen Chip Partnership for New Centre in Silicon Valley
The companies will jointly develop semiconductor technologies for AI scaling at Applied Materials’ EPIC research facility, which is scheduled to be operational this year.
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Indian Judiciary Goes Digital with AI Chatbot & Integrated Case Management System
The digital initiatives are aimed at improving transparency, coordination and citizen access as India’s judiciary accelerates its technology-driven reforms.
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LTTS, Emerson Partner for Engineering and Testing Solutions
The companies will set up a centre of excellence in Mysuru to support product engineering and testing automation.
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Toxic Work Culture Holds Back Microsoft, Amazon Employees From Indian Firms: Survey
A new survey from Blind eveals that workplace culture and burnout concerns are outweighing salary considerations for tech professionals evaluating Indian companies.
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