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.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
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
New York, United States
New York, 10001, United States
New York, New York, United States
Business model
B2B SaaS
developer tools
Funding
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
People & investors
Leadership
Founder and CEO
Cofounder & Chief Product Officer
Founding Product Designer
Investors
Work & culture
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.
Product & market
Differentiators
- —Single source of truth across Figma, component code, and documentation
- —Generates component code, Figma assets, and documentation from a design-system editor
- —Aims to eliminate design-to-code handoff and rebuild work
- —Built for teams that want bespoke design-system flexibility without maintaining everything manually
- —Targets early teams that need design and development speed without a large design-system staff
Technology
TypeScript
Webpack
HTML5
CSS
React
JavaScript
Jest
Figma
GitHub Actions
Render
Customers
early-stage startups
growth startups
enterprise teams
design teams
engineering teams
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$330K ARR (estimated, public third-party estimate)
Latest news
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.
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