Uiflow secures money and Freshworks partnership to bolster its app dev platform

Uiflow, an organization that allows groups to construct frontend apps utilizing their current information, at present introduced that it raised $15 million in Collection A funding led by Addition, Transpose Platform and Collectively Fund — bringing the corporate’s whole raised to $21 million. CEO Sol Eun informed TechCrunch in an interview that the infusion might be put towards increasing Uiflow’s staff and beginning the corporate’s go-to-market movement.

Eun co-founded Uiflow with Eric Rowell, who he met at Workday, in early 2020. Whereas working at software program developer Pegasystems, Eun says he noticed the significance of decreasing the barrier of entry to app improvement. Workday, in the meantime, additional impressed Eun with its structure for inner low-code software program improvement, which was designed to hurry up the event course of considerably in comparison with conventional approaches.

“Software program-as-a-service platforms face [the] problem of scaling their third-party improvement initiative to empower their clients to increase and customise their platform to satisfy clients’ personal wants,” Eun informed TechCrunch by way of e-mail. “[The] software program backlog for each firm can also be getting longer by the day on account of pandemic and ability scarcity. Most enterprise software program improvement platforms require months of coaching and certifications earlier than anybody can construct, which is why majority of the income for these platform corporations are from companies.”

Uiflow goals to assist resolve this with an app design and engineering platform that works with current infrastructure — particularly infrastructure from which information may be accessed by way of API. Leveraging a visible coding language known as Flowlang, Uiflow customers can construct apps that work with public cloud companies, ostensibly whereas preserving safety and deployment on their very own servers.

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Uiflow not too long ago added assist for “multi-page” apps that may be secured behind authentication. And the platform now works with standard authentication companies, which may be integrated into new or current apps with a number of clicks.

“Uiflow empowers dev groups to start out from preferrred person expertise then deliver mandatory processes and information,” Eun stated. “The pandemic and the present financial scenario will put many corporations in a scenario the place they should ‘do extra with much less.’ Many corporations are decreasing or planning to cut back their headcount whereas retaining the speed of innovation to remain aggressive. Fortuitously, we see this local weather as an enormous alternative to push our imaginative and prescient and product to assist extra corporations obtain their targets in software program innovation.”

Eun demurred when requested about buyer metrics, however revealed that Uiflow has a partnership with Freshworks to permit Freshworks clients to construct dashboards for ticket dealing with in Freshservice, Freshworks’ IT service administration portal. Eun claims that greater than 500 companies have signed up for the service, which is at present in beta.

If all goes in accordance with plan, the Freshworks providing will launch normally availability this November and are available to extra Freshworks merchandise, like Freshsales, within the subsequent months.

“Since launching our beta person program in June 2021, we’ve customers throughout greater than 800 organizations … We’ve closed a number of enterprise accounts, and have additionally tripled our staff during the last 12 months,” Eun stated. “Beginning with our Freshworks partnership, we plan to increase to extra platforms and turn out to be the one customization platform for all main SaaS platforms … Our objective is to turn out to be the very best improvement platform for frontend purposes. This may permit us to increase to and backend improvement simpler, giving our clients a full stack of capabilities, whereas additionally offering them the selection of what capabilities they need to leverage.”