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Povio

Engineering and Design that Fuels Startup Success

povio.com
HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA
201-500
B2B

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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Overview

Povio is a San Francisco–headquartered digital product design and development agency founded in 2014 by Matevž Petek. It sells AI-powered design, engineering, QA, and product-delivery services for startups, VC portfolios, and larger organizations, with Europe-based delivery teams and a public portfolio of 1,500+ products. Public sources disagree on some scale metrics, but the company markets itself as YC W14-backed and product-focused.

Primary product

AI-powered custom software, product design, and development services

Founded

2014

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States (1390 Market Street, Suite 200, 94102)

Team size

150-200

Work style

Flexible

Industry

IT Services and IT Consulting

Sub-industry

Digital product design and software development services

Offices

San Francisco, California, United States
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Maribor, Slovenia
Celje, Slovenia
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Prishtina, Kosovo

Business model

digital product agency
staff augmentation
dedicated teams
fixed-price projects
consulting
team augmentation

Funding

Stage

Seed

Total raised

$205K

Latest round

Seed VC - II · Jun 2017

People & investors

Leadership

Matevz Petek

Founder & CEO

Uros Zizek

Head of Architecture

Vida Rojšek

Head of Product Design

Vid Lešnik

Head of Sales & Partnerships

Hana Hochstätter

Head of Recruitment

Tonko Puljiz

Managing Partner

Investors

DeNA
Fil Rouge Capital
Katsuhiro Okamura
Kevin Weng
Pete Cashmore
Rafael Sanches
Sandro Mur
Silicon Gardens
Social Starts
ThirdFrame Studios
Y Combinator

Work & culture

The company emphasizes ownership, clear thinking, honest feedback, and sustainable personal growth. It describes itself as a place for meaningful work with thoughtful teammates, and its teams are distributed across cities and time zones.

Work style

Flexible

Benefits

Povio Academy
training and mentoring for young talent
meaningful client work
supportive teammates
steady personal growth

Product & market

Pricing

Fixed-price projects plus dedicated-team / staff-augmentation engagements.

Differentiators

  • —AI-powered execution
  • —38+ development stacks
  • —design, engineering, QA, and project delivery under one roof
  • —YC Winter 2014 alumni
  • —Europe-based delivery with San Francisco headquarters
  • —startup and VC-portfolio focus
  • —1,500+ products delivered
  • —speed plus cost efficiency for founders

Technology

React
Node.js
Python
Swift
Webflow
Shopify
WordPress
AWS
TypeScript
Ruby on Rails
GraphQL
NestJS
BullMQ
Redis
Neo4j
.NET
iOS
Android
Kotlin
Claude AI

Customers

Volkswagen
Flexport
Latch
Eight Sleep
NXP Semiconductors
776
Chipolo
Editas Medicine
Finic AI
FlutterWave
Fooda
mindbodygreen
Plume
ROOM
SprintRay

Competitors

Praecipio
S-PRO
ISBX
Zeplin
Binary Studio
Hedgehog lab
Opencast Software

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$10M-$25M estimated annual revenue (public third-party estimate); another source estimates ~$15.4M ARR for 2024.

Estimated monthly visits

18.3K

Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026

info@povio.com+1-415-889-0717

Latest news

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Case study on stabilizing and scaling a fitness app, including architecture refactors, async processing, and content-ops improvements.

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