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Mermaid Chart, a Markdown-like tool for creating diagrams, raises $7.5M
Mermaid, the open-source diagramming and charting tool, has long been popular with developers for its ability to create diagrams using a Markdown-like
As is often the case, Mermaid founder Knut Sveidqvist created the project because he saw a need for it in his own job as a software architect and then open-sourced it without any immediate plans for monetization. “Matching the open source software with the venture studio model, with Sid Sijbrandij’s kind of background, with the capital — when you stack those things together, you now you have these seed-stage companies that look like they might have been de-risked much as a series A. In addition, to make Mermaid even more accessible, the team also trained its own AI model to allow users to create charts with the help of a chat interface, for example.
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