Toddle

Danish startup Toddle was founded in 2022 by CEO Andreas Mller and CDO Kasper Svenning to change how we build software with a collaborative visual web app builder. Their goal was to create a platform that gives designers direct access to a live codebase through a visual editing interface, that enables them to make UI and UX changes that reflect immediately in the underlying code framework. Toddles open-source web app builder focuses on a component hierarchy for the frontend similar to coding languages like React, with adoption of data at the backend. The founders shared this pitch deck that Toddle used to raise a $4.3M seed round in 2024, without AI or other buzzwords. The round was led by Inventure, joined by PSV, Lifeline Ventures, and David Okuniev. Funding has been pouring into apps in the no-code development space, such as Framer and Bubble which raised $100M in 2021. In recent years, open source startups OSS building developer tools have seen an uptrend in VC interest, such as Posthog, InfluxData, and Gitpod.