Frontend devtool startup Kombai raises $4.5 M led by Stellaris, Foundation Capital

Pune- and San Francisco, CA (USA)-based frontend development tools startup Kombai has raised USD 4.5 million in a seed round led by Stellaris Venture Partners and Foundation Capital. The funding also saw participation from some chief technology officers and software startup executives as angel investors. Kombai, founded by two former Mindtickle senior executives Abhijit Bhole and Dipranjan Dey, will use the capital to continue investing in research and development, accelerate improvements to its base models, build compatibility with a range of libraries and frameworks used by developer teams and elevate the developer experience around the product. The company builds new artificial intelligence models that can understand and code user interface (UI) designs like humans.