When Matija Šošić began working in net growth, he was shocked by how exhausting it was to construct a full-stack production-ready net software.
One of the most important hurdles Šošić confronted was navigating the fragmented dev tooling panorama. Coding an internet software required using completely different instruments for growing the front-end versus the back-end, and so forth.
“The complete ecosystem may be very modular and granulated,” Šošić advised TechCrunch. “There’s plenty of these separate sub-systems, which you need to work out how one can paste collectively, after which additionally be certain that they’re each, you understand, scalable and safe with every little thing you arrange.”
In 2020, Šošić determined to pair up together with his twin brother, Martin Šošić — who’d confronted comparable points in his personal developer profession — to launch Wasp, a platform meant to attach these fragmented instruments, in 2021.
Wasp is a full-stack net app dev device that acts because the glue between the completely different platforms builders are already utilizing, together with React, Node.js, and Prisma, amongst others. Wasp helps compile the code from these completely different platforms collectively into one net software.
Wasp additionally spots and flags the gaps which are frequent when a developer mashes collectively completely different coding sources. Wasp will let a developer know if they’re lacking an API key, for instance, or counsel potential code adjustments to forestall future points.
That final piece is especially essential in in the present day’s market as quite a few new AI coding instruments, like Windsurf (previously Codeium) and Cursor, have made coding accessible to nontechnical of us. While that’s largely an excellent factor, Šošić stated, “vibe coding doesn’t work for enterprise,” and Wasp can assist budding builders construct safer, full-stack net functions.
Wasp’s platform is open supply and might deploy to a public cloud or an enterprise server.
Šošić stated that the founding workforce determined to construct Wasp as a layer on high of current instruments versus a very new, out-of-the-box resolution to remove builders having to be taught a brand new programming language or course of to make use of Wasp.
Wasp went by Y Combinator’s winter 2021 cohort and launched its product into beta in 2023. Since then, the corporate has racked up 26,000 GitHub stars, and it now works with quite a few startups and Fortune 500 clients.
The firm raised a previously-unannounced $3.7 million spherical led by HV Capital with participation from Fifth Quarter Ventures, Big Bets, and Metis Ventures, amongst different VCs, in late 2024. The spherical additionally included Ant Wilson, a co-founder and CTO of Supabase, and Søren Bramer Schmidt, the CEO of Prisma.
Wasp final raised funding in 2021 — a $1.5 million seed spherical. To date, the corporate has raised a complete of $5.2 million.
“This provides us a really stable quantity of, mainly, freedom to work with,” Šošić stated. “We are very excited to execute on the following stage of the product, convey it to [version] 1.0, and additional solidify the entire positioning within the AI spectrum.”
Šošić stated the corporate is now centered on bringing the product to model 1.0, which can embody options like assist for various languages and server-side rendering.
“For us, you understand, it’s nonetheless specializing in the core product itself, which is the open supply Wasp as properly framework,” Šošić stated. “With all of the suggestions that we’ve gotten from the final 4 years of constructing, I believe now it’s develop into clear to us what we’ve to construct and what we’ve to assist to succeed in [version] 1.0.”
