When Matija šošić began working on the web development, he was surprised by how difficult it was to build an online application for production.
One of the biggest obstacles faced by which it faced was navigating the fragmented landscape of Dev vehicles. The coding of an online app required the use of various tools for the development of the front against the end of the backwardness, etc.
“The whole ecosystem is very modular and crushed,” said Šošić Techcrunch. “There are many of these special sub-systems, which you need to figure out how to climb together, and then make sure they both know, scaled and safe with everything you set.”
In 2020, Šošić decided to join his twin brother, Martin Šošić – who would face similar issues in his developer career – to begin WASP, a platform aimed at linking these fragmented tools in 2021.
WASP is a full online apps tool that acts as a glue among the different platforms that developers are already using, including React, Node.js and Prism, among other things. WASP helps to compile the code from these different platforms together in an online app.
WASP also spots and flag gaps that are common when a developer collides together different sources of coding. WASP will notify a developer if it lacks an API key, for example, or suggest possible code changes to prevent future issues.
This latter part is especially important in today’s market as numerous new tools of he, such as Windsurf (formerly Codeium) and Cursor, have made the coding accessible to non -tutechnical people. While this is mostly a good thing, Šošić said, “Vibe coding does not work for the enterprise”, and WASP can help flowering developers build more secure, full online applications.
The WASP platform is open source and can be placed in a public cloud or an enterprise server.
Šošić said the founding team decided to build WASP as a layer on top of existing tools compared to a completely new solution, outside the box to eliminate developers who need to learn a new programming language or process to use WASP.
WASP moved to the Y Combiner’s Winter Group 2021 and started its product in Beta in 2023. Since then, the company has accumulated 26,000 Gitchub stars, and now has been operating with numerous startups and fortune customers 500.
The company set up a round of $ 3.7 million earlier led by HV Capital participating from the fifth trimester, large bets and Metis Ventures, among other VCs, at the end of 2024. The round also included Ant Wilson, a co-founder and CTO of Supabase, and Søren Bramer Schmidt, CEO I PRISMMA.
WASP raised the last funds in 2021 – a seed of $ 1.5 million. So far, the company has raised a total of $ 5.2 million.
“This gives us a very strong amount, in essence, the freedom to work with it,” said Šošić. “We are very excited to execute at the next level of the product, bring it to (version) 1.0 and further strengthen the whole positioning on the spectrum of it.”
Šošić said the company is now focused on bringing the product in version 1.0, which will include features such as support for different languages and interpretation by the server.
“For us, you know, he is still focusing on the essential product itself, which is an open -source quad as well as a frame,” said Šošić. “With all the reactions we have received from the last four years of construction, I think now it has become clear to us what we need to build and what we should support to achieve (version) 1.0.”
