Dessn raises $6M for a design tool that works directly on production code

Dessn, founded by Gabriella Hachem and Nim Cheema, raised a $6M seed led by Connect Ventures with Betaworks and N49P participating. The pitch is design tooling that operates on your actual codebase in the cloud rather than producing Figma files that get translated by a developer later. Already in use at Color, Wispr, and Mercury. Free tier gives one compiled repo and five prompts a week; paid starts at $39 per user per month. Co-founder Cheema's framing: "in a world where code is insanely cheap, design becomes a way that's a differentiator."