When Matija Šošić began working in internet growth, he was shocked by how exhausting it was to construct a full-stack production-ready internet software.
One of many greatest hurdles Šošić confronted was navigating the fragmented dev tooling panorama. Coding an online software required using completely different instruments for growing the front-end versus the back-end, and so forth.
“The entire ecosystem may be very modular and granulated,” Šošić advised TechCrunch. “There’s a number of these separate sub-systems, which it’s a must to work out how you can paste collectively, after which additionally be certain they’re each, you recognize, scalable and safe with every little thing you arrange.”
In 2020, Šošić determined to pair up along with his twin brother, Martin Šošić — who’d confronted related points in his personal developer profession — to launch Wasp, a platform meant to attach these fragmented instruments, in 2021.
Wasp is a full-stack internet app dev instrument 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 internet software.
Wasp additionally spots and flags the gaps which might be 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 vital in immediately’s market as quite a few new AI coding instruments, like Windsurf (formerly Codeium) and Cursor, have made coding accessible to nontechnical of us. Whereas that’s largely an excellent factor, Šošić mentioned, “vibe coding doesn’t work for enterprise,” and Wasp may also help budding builders construct safer, full-stack internet functions.
Wasp’s platform is open supply and might deploy to a public cloud or an enterprise server.
Šošić mentioned that the founding staff determined to construct Wasp as a layer on high of present instruments versus a totally new, out-of-the-box answer to get rid of builders having to study 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 prospects.
The corporate raised a previously-unannounced $3.7 million spherical led by HV Capital with participation from Fifth Quarter Ventures, Large 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 round. So far, the corporate has raised a complete of $5.2 million.
“This provides us a really strong quantity of, mainly, freedom to work with,” Šošić mentioned. “We’re very excited to execute on the subsequent stage of the product, carry it to [version] 1.0, and additional solidify the entire positioning within the AI spectrum.”
Šošić mentioned the corporate is now targeted on bringing the product to model 1.0, which can embody options like help for various languages and server-side rendering.
“For us, you recognize, it’s nonetheless specializing in the core product itself, which is the open supply Wasp as effectively framework,” Šošić mentioned. “With all of the suggestions that we’ve gotten from the final 4 years of constructing, I believe now it’s turn into clear to us what we’ve to construct and what we’ve to help to succeed in [version] 1.0.”