Bucharest’s DesignVerse raises over €4.6 million Seed funding after supporting EUROCONTROL software upgrade
DesignVerse, a Bucharest-based enterprise software startup helping modernise aviation infrastructure across Europe, has raised more than €4.6 million ($5.5 million) in Seed funding.
Investors in this round include Begin Capital, Gapminder VC, Underline Ventures, and strategic individual angel investments from companies like Adobe, LSEG, UiPath, and more.
Andrei Manolache, CEO of DesignVerse, said, “Large organisations still lose enormous amounts of time translating design work into production software. Designers create intent, but engineers must manually reinterpret and rebuild it, which leads to inconsistency and delays.
“DesignVerse removes that friction entirely, allowing teams to generate functional enterprise applications directly from their design systems, validating the behaviour instantly with business stakeholders and bridging the gap between.”
Founded in 2024 by Andrei Manolache and Robert Dragutoiu, DesignVerse is an AI-based platform that builds and delivers complex enterprise software using an organisation’s own documentation and internal rules. It ensures that every system is built consistently across teams.
The company claims that its software integrates directly with the design systems, architecture patterns, and business logic enterprise which the client’s teams rely on, eliminating drift, fragmentation, and repeated implementation effort. “The DesignVerse platform bridges the gap between design and development by creating a context layer, unique for each large-scale organisation, enabling teams to build and modernise complex software far faster than traditional workflows,” says the company.
Using AI, DesignVerse states that its technology allows teams to modernise operational software far faster than traditional development processes. The platform grounds its AI models in each customer’s design systems, component libraries and technical documentation. This enables software to be generated in line with the company’s existing or target architecture, as well as existing or target front-end or back-end technologies.
It is designed for organisations running complex legacy systems, including banks, cybersecurity platforms, and government infrastructure.
It has already been adopted by a range of mission-critical organisations, including EUROCONTROL, which is responsible for coordinating air traffic across Europe. DesignVerse upgraded and modernised EUROCONTROL’S legacy software, overhauling a 15-year-old application in just over a month, compared with the estimated six months it would have taken using conventional methods, it states.
In a statement, EUROCONTROL pointed out, “Aviation is an industry where the innovation cycle is generally slower compared to others. At EUROCONTROL, we have embarked on our largest digital transformation programme to date – the Integrated Network Management (iNM) programme – aimed at reshaping this paradigm by transforming not only our technologies but also aligning our culture with new ways of working, in collaboration with our partners.
“DesignVerse, through its AI platform, has supported us in modernising our software systems at an accelerated pace, without compromising the reliability, safety and security that remain the highest priority for our sector. We value such partnerships that contribute to our efforts to drive innovation and leverage AI at scale across the European aviation ecosystem, and ultimately improve the quality of air travel for the entire community.”
It reported that in less than five months, the company has exceeded nearly €930k ($1.1 million) in annual recurring revenue, driven entirely by enterprise customers from highly sensitive sectors.
Robert Dragutoiu, CTO and architect of the AI model pipeline behind DesignVerse, said, “Many AI coding tools available today are designed primarily for experimentation or rapid prototyping.
“Enterprises operate complex infrastructure and legacy systems, often in mission-critical environments. Software generated by AI must integrate with existing architectures and run safely in production. Our models are designed specifically for those constraints.
“Our technology builds a system-level context layer from each customer’s design systems, component libraries, and technical documentation, enabling software to be produced seamlessly in alignment with existing architecture and engineering standards, without months of custom integrations.”
With the fresh funding, DesignVerse plans to expand its engineering team and accelerate growth across the enterprise sector, both in Europe and the US. Prior to this round, DesignVerse raised €725.3k ($850k) in pre-Seed funding, which enabled the team to build its core platform and begin working with early enterprise design partners.
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