Raise Studio was founded by people who've been inside the founder hustle and watched investors evaluate the work that came out of it.
We've watched founders pour energy into product, into customer acquisition, into metrics. And we've watched investors evaluate them, not just on those metrics, but on everything they see.
A brand that's coherent across touch points signals strategic thinking. A website that clearly communicates value reduces friction in the sales process. A pitch deck that feels polished signals execution rigor.
These aren't cosmetic advantages. They're foundational credibility signals that compound during fundraising.
32% faster revenue growth
Most founders didn't have the budget or bandwidth to address this. Full-time designers cost too much. Freelancers were chaotic and inconsistent. Design agencies didn't understand founder constraints or Series A timelines.
There was a gap between what founders needed and what the market offered.
A design partnership specifically built for seed-stage founders racing toward Series A. Everything about how we work, our pricing, our team structure, our async-first operations, our focus on strategic clarity, is built around founder reality.
We are a startup designed to serve startups.
Four principles behind every project, from the first call to the last file.
We don't ask "What should this look like?" We ask "What are we trying to communicate?"
Strategy drives every design decision. When positioning clarity comes first, visual design becomes the vehicle for that clarity, not decoration on top of it. Strategy first. Design follows.
We know you're time-starved. We know you're managing dozens of competing priorities. We know that "creative process" language makes you nervous when you have 12–20 months to raise.
We design for your reality, not for designer ego. That means async operations, one point of contact who knows your business, month-to-month pricing with no contracts, and speed.
You need results in weeks, not months. But we won't ship work that undermines your Series A conversations.
Our design lead conducts quality control before every delivery. Speed comes from clarity, async operations, and dedicated focus. Not from cutting corners.
You can't build brand coherence with a rotating cast of vendors. You need someone who knows your business, remembers your decisions, understands your market, and ensures every new project reinforces the last one.
Continuity compounds value. Month 1 with us is good. Month 3 is significantly better because we understand your strategy deeply. Month 6 is where the real leverage appears.
Raise Studio is a distributed team of product people, brand strategists, UI/UX designers, web designers, illustrators, and motion designers, working asynchronously across time zones so you get coverage and continuity.
Max and Hooman co-founded Raise Studio after a decade inside product orgs and design partnerships, watching designers fight for strategy seats and founders fight for design that actually moved the needle. Raise Studio is what they wished they'd had on either side of that table.
Max Fadaee
Co-founder
Max led product, engineering, and design teams for over a decade. Built and scaled multidisciplinary teams. Owned multi-year strategies. Shipped at the scale of millions across enterprise software, SaaS, fintech, eCommerce, and consumer platforms. Knows what investor-grade execution looks like from every angle of the org chart.
Hooman Abbasi
Co-founder
Hooman has been leading product design across SaaS, fintech, eCommerce, and consumer platforms for over a decade. Led design teams. Built design functions from scratch. Scaled design systems that moved retention, satisfaction, and conversion. Mentors founders on the brand and UX choices that align with business goals and investor readiness.
Let's talk about your Series A timeline and what's holding back your investor conversations.