Sketch, maker of popular design tools, just landed $20m in Series A funding

Sketch, maker of popular design tools, just landed $20 million in Series A funding from Benchmark in its first outside probably noticed: Design has become central for many businesses that might have once considered it an afterthought. Though its design tools were formerly available in the Mac App Store — Apple once gave it a design award and it routinely topped the Mac App Store charts — Sketch parted ways with the company back in 2015, including owing to Apple’s guidelines about what a Mac app can and can’t do, and the time Apple takes to approve app updates. Benchmark — which isn’t sharing Sketch’s post-money valuation or how much of the company that $20 million is buying the venture firm — also sees a future wherein Sketch moves beyond its roots as a prototyping tool for both highly experienced and novice designers to build out their experience without the help of coders.

Source: techcrunch.com