Why We Invested in DesignPro

t GVC Partners, we back bold founders building the future — and in the case of DesignPro, that future is pixel-perfect.

We’re thrilled to announce our investment in DesignPro, an AI-powered UX design co-pilot that enables design teams to catch UX issues, improve copy, and optimize conversions — all in seconds. Built for creators, marketers, and product managers, DesignPro is on a mission to make great design effortless and intelligent.

A Founding Team Built for This Problem

DesignPro is led by Mohammed Abdoolcarim and Murad Akhter, Stanford classmates and seasoned operators with deep technical chops and rare product intuition. Mo previously led product for Siri at Apple and founded Google’s Trusted Tester program — the gold standard for usability feedback. Murad is a serial entrepreneur and engineer with experience at Apple, Microsoft, and multiple startups, including AI/3D modeling ventures used by major media and retail outlets.

This is a team that doesn’t just know product — they’ve shaped how billions of users experience it.

The Problem: UX Testing Is Broken

Great design can make or break a product. Yet most UX design processes are bogged down by outdated testing workflows, manual processes, and subjective feedback. Traditional tools like UserTesting or Dovetail often take days to return insights. AI tools, while faster, usually lack context, nuance, and actionability.

DesignPro solves this elegantly.

By leveraging both public and proprietary AI models — fine-tuned by an in-house team of designers, copywriters, and growth experts — DesignPro provides instant, actionable feedback on everything from layout to copy. Think Grammarly for UX, but trained on your brand, your analytics, your design system.

And in 2025, DesignPro will go further: allowing users to auto-generate entire new designs — called Remixes — based on past performance and customer insights.

A Simple Product That Users Love

Adoption has been swift. Since launching in early 2024, DesignPro has attracted 6,000+ Figma community users, signed 20 paying customers, and secured 5 paid pilots with leading companies like ByteDance, Grab, Salesforce, and LinkedIn.

Design managers at Grab and ByteDance rave about how it helps junior designers ship high-quality work — faster. Founders use it to improve conversion rates and reduce dependency on outsourced UX audits.

What makes it sticky? Clear ROI: faster review cycles, higher design quality, and ultimately better business outcomes.

Our Thesis: Where Design Meets AI, Speed Wins

We invested in DesignPro because we believe:

• AI-powered UX is not a trend — it’s a transformation. Just as GitHub Copilot accelerates software engineering, DesignPro does the same for design.
• The product fits seamlessly into workflows. Unlike most testing tools that feel like extra work, DesignPro plugs into tools like Figma and Chrome, making iteration natural and continuous.
• There’s a clear expansion path. The opportunity goes far beyond UX — DesignPro has sights set on content testing, SEO optimization, and conversion-focused design for marketing teams.
  

And most importantly, we saw a team that moves fast, listens to customers, and builds relentlessly.

What’s Next?

With this round of funding, the team is doubling down on product development, expanding integrations, and training their proprietary AI models on customer-specific data to increase accuracy, personalization, and defensibility.

DesignPro’s trajectory is clear — from tool to copilot to essential infrastructure for digital design.

We’re excited to partner with Mo, Murad, and the entire DesignPro team as they reshape how the world builds better digital experiences.

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‍Learn more: https://beta.designpro.ai/

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