Dessn Raises $6M — Launches Real Codebases in the Cloud for Designers

Quick update from the world of design tools: Dessn raised $6M and is launching cloud-hosted codebases with no local setup.

What matters:
- Technology abstracts dependencies and runs production code, simplifying handoffs from designers to engineers.
- Focuses on teams with existing code; customers include Color, Wispr, Mercury.
- Founded by Gabriella Hachem and Nim Cheema; round led by Connect Ventures with participation from Betaworks and N49P.
- Pricing: one free repository and 5 prompts/week; from $39/user/month. Slack integrations planned; no Figma integration.

Why it matters: running real code lowers friction between design and development and accelerates iterations.

Do you think Dessn will change designers' and engineers' workflows?

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