When Matija Šošić began working in internet improvement, he was shocked by how laborious it was to construct a full-stack production-ready internet utility.
One of many largest hurdles Šošić confronted was navigating the fragmented dev tooling panorama. Coding an internet utility required using completely different instruments for creating the front-end versus the back-end, and so forth.
“The entire ecosystem may be very modular and granulated,” Šošić informed TechCrunch. “There’s quite a lot of these separate sub-systems, which you must determine how you 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 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 software 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 utility.
Wasp additionally spots and flags the gaps which can 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 modifications to forestall future points.
That final piece is especially vital in right now’s market as quite a few new AI coding instruments, like Windsurf (previously Codeium) and Cursor, have made coding accessible to nontechnical people. Whereas that’s largely a great factor, Šošić mentioned, “vibe coding doesn’t work for enterprise,” and Wasp might help budding builders construct safer, full-stack internet functions.
Wasp’s platform is open supply and may deploy to a public cloud or an enterprise server.
Šošić mentioned that the founding staff determined to construct Wasp as a layer on prime of present instruments versus a very new, out-of-the-box resolution to remove builders having to study a brand new programming language or course of to make use of Wasp.
Wasp went by way of 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 spherical. Up to now, the corporate has raised a complete of $5.2 million.
“This provides us a really strong quantity of, principally, freedom to work with,” Šošić mentioned. “We’re very excited to execute on the following degree of the product, convey it to [version] 1.0, and additional solidify the entire positioning within the AI spectrum.”
Šošić mentioned the corporate is now centered on bringing the product to model 1.0, which can embrace 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 nicely framework,” Šošić mentioned. “With all of the suggestions that we’ve got gotten from the final 4 years of constructing, I feel now it’s grow to be clear to us what we’ve got to construct and what we’ve got to assist to achieve [version] 1.0.”
