LinkedIn · Sep 2025
Alexandru Antihi posted that Designbase was hiring a design-engineer to help shape its next-gen design platform, a useful signal that the company is actively building its product team.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Designbase (also known publicly as Blocksfabrik / Fabrikant Tech, Inc.) is an active YC Winter 2023 startup building a design-runtime / design-system platform for early teams, centered on keeping design and code in sync and generating component code, Figma assets, and documentation.
Primary product
Design runtime / design-system platform that generates synchronized component code, Figma assets, and documentation
Founded
2021
Headquarters
New York, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Design systems / interface design tools
Offices
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Business model
Stage
pre-seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Pre Seed Round · Apr 2023
Latest amount
$500K
Apr 2023 · Y Combinator
Jan 2023
Jun 2022 · Surface Ventures
Leadership
Founder and CEO
Cofounder & Chief Product Officer
Founding Product Designer
Investors
Small, early-stage, product-and-engineering-heavy team focused on helping designers and developers ship interfaces faster; public hiring signals emphasize hands-on collaboration and US-remote roles.
Compensation
Public YC job postings list US-remote openings at $120K-$150K base salary with 0.10%-0.50% equity for 3+ years of experience.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Estimated revenue
≈$330K ARR (estimated, public third-party estimate)
LinkedIn · Sep 2025
Alexandru Antihi posted that Designbase was hiring a design-engineer to help shape its next-gen design platform, a useful signal that the company is actively building its product team.
LinkedIn · May 2025
Alexandru Antihi offered free design consultations to early teams facing product design or front-end quality challenges, reinforcing the company’s early-stage customer focus.
LinkedIn · Feb 2023
Ryan Xie’s announcement confirms the Y Combinator backing and describes the product as a way to create design systems without the usual overhead.
Y Combinator · Feb 2023
Official launch write-up describing Blocksfabrik/Designbase as a design-system platform that generates Figma assets, a private NPM package, and documentation from a single source of truth.
LinkedIn · Feb 2023
Alexandru Antihi announced that the company was backed by Y Combinator and reiterated the product vision around helping teams build and maintain design systems.