{"id":22937,"date":"2026-07-31T02:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/paper-raises-34m-to-build-the-next-great-design-platform\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T02:51:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:51:00","slug":"paper-raises-34m-to-build-the-next-great-design-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/paper-raises-34m-to-build-the-next-great-design-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper raises $34M to build the next great design platform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jul 22, 2026<\/p>\n

Paper has raised $34M in our Series A financing from Accel and ICONIQ. We are building the best place for teams and agents to design software that stands out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Paper<\/span><\/span> has raised $34M in our Series A financing\u00a0from Accel<\/a> and ICONIQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We welcome new\u00a0investors Designer Fund<\/a>, Michael Grinich<\/a> (CEO WorkOS<\/a>), Anton Osika<\/a> (CEO Lovable<\/a>), engineers and designers from Anthropic and OpenAI, and more, alongside renewed support\u00a0from Basecase<\/a>, David Hoang<\/a>, and Guillermo Rauch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This brings Paper<\/span>\u2019s total funding to\u00a0$38.5M.<\/p>\n

Paper<\/span>\u2019s mission<\/h2>\n

Engineering is moving faster than ever. And every department is adopting coding agents. Paper<\/span>\u2019s mission is to help designers thrive in this agentic era. We want to help the world make quality software, not just more\u00a0software.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been honored to help early customers\u00a0like Ramp<\/a>, Lovable<\/a>, Harvey<\/a>, and thousands more. Winning companies value design because design is how great businesses stand out from the\u00a0noise.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve seen very few tools in my career get the kind of love and organic adoption by industry leaders like Paper<\/span> has\u00a0had.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The acceleration<\/h2>\n

After the Paper<\/span> Desktop<\/a> launch, we 25x\u2019d ARR in a month, giving us rock-solid conviction: teams shipping with agents need a design tool built specifically for the new\u00a0era.<\/p>\n

We saw designers moving en masse to Claude Code, so we followed them to the desktop with Paper<\/span><\/span> Desktop\u00a0and MCP<\/a>. Paper gives designers a high-quality, human-first design tool to collaborate with\u00a0agents.<\/p>\n

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Paper<\/span> brings our production codebase into an infinite canvas for our design process. We can ideate in the context of our production\u00a0experience.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Thousands of teams now pay for Paper<\/span>. We\u2019ve ranked near the top of Ramp\u2019s fastest-growing companies list for four consecutive months, including multiple months at #1. We are onboarding leading design teams, learning what they need, and building the best design tool for teams shipping with\u00a0agents.<\/p>\n

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Paper<\/span> plugs directly into Inspect, our own coding agent, and can pull and push right from production. Designers can spend more energy on the\u00a0craft.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Paper<\/span> is expanding beyond design teams too. Engineers, sales teams, and growth teams use Paper<\/span><\/span> as a visual interface to their agents. Paper<\/span><\/span> is a connected canvas for diagramming, building decks, and refining\u00a0ideas.<\/p>\n

The future of\u00a0design<\/h2>\n

The future of design is agent-scale. Paper<\/span> will become infrastructure for agents. Your CI pipeline will create canvases with visual diffs. Your custom harnesses will embed Paper<\/span><\/span>. Design will be part of more workflows than ever before as agents and humans\u00a0collaborate.<\/p>\n

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Paper<\/span><\/span> bet on HTML and CSS as our rendering engine because they form a natural language for agents. In independent benchmarking, Paper<\/span><\/span>\u2019s agent flows\u00a0are faster, more accurate, and use fewer tokens than agents in other design\u00a0tools<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s financing gives Paper<\/span><\/span> the resources to build for agent-scale and the runway to do it with care and quality. We\u2019re investing further in our editor, our agent infrastructure, and our world-class team. And we\u2019ll continue to commit to open-source projects\u00a0like Paper<\/span> Shaders<\/a> and Paper<\/span> Mono<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Teams choosing Paper<\/span> can trust that we\u2019re here for the long term. We are focused on building the best place for teams and agents to design the next generation of iconic\u00a0software.<\/p>\n

Try Paper<\/span><\/span> on the web\u00a0or download Paper<\/span> Desktop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For the love of\u00a0design,
Stephen<\/a><\/p>\n

P.S. Join the\u00a0mission<\/h2>\n

We started Paper<\/span> from a love for design. We\u2019re a company of builders: product-led, quality above\u00a0everything.<\/p>\n

Paper<\/span> is a place where people can do their life\u2019s work. We look to hire brilliant, curious, humble people who have extreme interests in design, UI, engineering, and the art of\u00a0software.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re fully remote and currently hiring\u00a0for:<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to join our team, send some examples of your work\u00a0to join@paper.design<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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