San Francisco-headquartered startup Noon has emerged from stealth mode with $44 million in funding from Chemistest, First Round Capital, Scribble Ventures, Elevation Capital, and Afore Capital, along with individual investors from the technology and design industries.

Founded in October 2024 by IIT Guwahati alumni Aditya Bandi and Kushagra Sinha, Noon is an AI-native tool that aims to bridge the gap between product design and engineering.

Sinha notified ET during an interaction that most design tools in apply today have trickled down from the world of graphic design software, and produce static visual mockups. “Designers work in a different universe. They create something and pass it to engineers, who interpret and rebuild it in code. In that translation, something is always lost,” he declared.

Hence, along with the illustrations of components, Noon also pulls code directly from a team’s codebase and design system. As a result, the company declares that what a designer produces is what ultimately ships, eliminating the traditional handoff between design and engineering.

AI is embedded throughout the tool to handle repetitive tquestions while keeping designers in creative control.

The funding will be applyd for product development, sales and marketing, and to hire more talent. The startup did not disclose the valuation at which funds were raised.