Knapsack
Developer Tools · Design & Prototyping Tools
$10Mlatest round · Venture round · Oct 2025 · 13 mo ago
3backers · Ascend.vc, Crosslink Capital
10+team · employees, estimated range
31stories in the press
Overview
Knapsack is the infrastructure that connects design and code into a real-time system of record, enabling enterprise teams to build, govern, and deliver digital products at scale.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$10M
1 round on record
Latest round
$10M
Venture round · Oct 2025 · 13 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Backers
3
Ascend.vc, Crosslink Capital
The money's age
Due for its next round
13 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
this month
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The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 9, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $10M · TechCrunch
Aug 2020
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
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Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Oct 2025 | $10M | — | TechCrunch |
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Financials
Total raised
$10M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | $10M | Details |
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News
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While out for a walk, I found a black bag lying on the side of the road. At first, I thought someone had just dumped some trash. It was placed as if pushed to the edge of the sidewalk, and there was nothing else lying around it. It didn't seem like it wou
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Knapsack picks up $10M to help bridge the gap between design and engineering teams
Knapsack creates a unified workspace that integrates design and coding tools to ensure design and engineering teams are on the same page.
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attacking the knapsack problem.
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An FPTAS for Stochastic Unbounded Min-Knapsack Problem
Abstract page for arXiv paper 1903.00547: An FPTAS for Stochastic Unbounded Min-Knapsack Problem
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