INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Designers are becoming more visible and popular on engineering teams, figuring out everything from the visuals of color palette and fonts to
the deeper interaction flows and user experience journeys that underlie products
As my colleague Jordan Crook recently described, that popularity has translated into one of the big venture gold rushes to serve this newly
empowered enterprise customer.Yet, between the Figmas and the InVisions and the Adobes lies a very specific challenge for designers: finding
a way to translate prototypes from their heads into usable products for engineers to build on
Most of the design tools on the market help designers build their own prototypes independently, or collaborate with other designers
The service empowers designers to create high-fidelity prototypes of products, including products that might end up in such places as
digital display kiosks, automobile dashboard screens, mobile phones and others
The tool can also adapt prototypes based on readings from sensors like motion detection
Kim left in December 2014 after getting fed up with existing design tools on the market and the lack of a clear winner in the interaction
prototyping space.ProtoPie founder Tony Kim (Photo via ProtoPie)Over the past few years, he and his team have been building out the full
Now, the company is charting a vastly growing curve following a switch to enterprise licensing last year, announcing today a $6.3 million
expansion of its Series A round led by Vela Partners
The company has collected a total of $9.9 million in venture capital since its founding.Jenna Yim, who is chief strategy officer, offered an
example of a car manufacturer prototyping a product
that it has 100,000 global paid users, with major deals with Microsoft, Google and other prominent tech companies
North America, potentially launching a more expansive headquarters there as well
