PORTLAND, OR – WEBWIRE – Thursday, October 9, 2025 Knapsack, the intelligent product engine powering AI-native digital product creation, today announced it has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Builders VC, with participation from Crosslink Capital, Epic Ventures, Mana Venture, and Lorimer Ventures. This brings the company’s total funding to $20.8 million as it expands its enterprise infrastructure platform to meet the growing demand for faster, more context-aware product delivery in the age of AI.“ What we’re seeing in the market isn’t a shift — it’s a convergence of forces,” said Mike Rosengarten, Partner at Builders VC. “AI is evolving faster than most organizations can adapt, legacy workflows are collapsing under modern demands, and the next wave of product delivery will belong to the teams that can combine speed, structure, and intelligence. Knapsack has been building toward this moment for years — and they’re positioned to redefine how digital experiences are created at scale.”AI has raised the bar for speed, scale, and personalization in digital product creation. Despite massive investments in tooling, most enterprise teams struggle to deliver at the pace innovation now demands. Fragmented workflows, risky handoffs, and gaps between design and code limit their ability to adapt quickly and deliver contextualized experiences across brands, channels, and customer segments.Knapsack replaces this complexity with a real-time, governed environment that connects design, code, and product through a shared foundation. With reusable components, context-rich documentation, and AI-native workflows, teams can design, test, and deliver personalized digital experiences up to 13× faster, moving delivery timelines from months to days.“ We’re at the beginning of a massive paradigm shift in how digital products get made,” said Chris Strahl, CEO and co-founder of Knapsack. “AI is changing what’s possible — and so, the way we build has to change too. Agentic tools now allow anyone to take an idea and turn it into a shippable product — sometimes in minutes. It’s vibe coding for the enterprise, with the context and guardrails you need to make it actually work: no blank canvas, no static design files, no technical barrier. We’re not just removing friction — we’re rethinking the starting point. Knapsack is the foundation for teams who want to create in code from day one.”Knapsack’s Intelligent Product Engine (IPE) is now in limited beta, with general availability planned for March 2026. It combines three core capabilities:

Knapsack announces $10M raise destined to expand its ai-native product engine. Knapsack raised $10 million in Series A funding to expand its Intelligent Product Engine, which claims to compress product development cycles from months to days through AI-driven, centralized design and code infrastructure. Knapsack, a company which boldly promises that its Intelligent Product Engine can "collapse" product creation and delivery cycles to achieve unprecedented efficiency, recently announced it has raised a $10 million Series A round led by Builders VC. Participants in Knapsack's Series A include Crosslink Capital, Epic Ventures, Mana Venture, and Lorimer Ventures. Knapsack reports that after this round, its total funding has risen to $20.8 million, as it continues to strengthen its enterprise infrastructure platform in response to an increasing demand for AI-first, context-aware project delivery strategies. Knapsack's design platform challenges the traditional product creation and delivery cycles by centralizing documentation, design sources and code. This aims to bridge the inevitable gap that emerges in traditional step-wise strategies that slow cyclical processes such as repeated handoffs, manual QA, and partial reviews. The company claims its Intelligent Product Engine can compress timelines dramatically - reducing design artifact creation from 10 days to 2 days and development implementation from 3 weeks to 2 days. This acceleration enables teams to shift from quarterly to weekly release cycles, creating what CEO Chris Strahl calls "vibe coding for the enterprise." The IPE, currently in limited beta with general availability planned for March 2026, consists of three core components: an ingestion engine for rapid system setup (launching soon), an MCP Server for generating governed experiences through agentic tools that produce results aligned with clients' brands, code and compliance standards (currently live), and a composition playground for prompt-based UI exploration (to launch later this year). Knapsack has achieved 2.6x annual revenue growth and secured adoption across Fortune 500 product teams. According to company materials, organizations using the platform can expect design systems to become "vital inputs for generation and innovation" rather than static deliverables, enabling personalized interfaces tailored to individual user personas, roles, and contexts - all while maintaining brand governance and compliance standards.