- Backed
- by Kleiner Perkins, Y Combinator
- $170M
- total funding
Martian Clients
We travel alongside you on the product development journey as a technological partner—balancing your business priorities, providing down‑to‑earth strategies, and best‑fit technologies.
- $2.5B+
- raised by our clients
- 8
- unicorns
- TeleportEvil Martians has partnered with Teleport since 2020, engineering enterprise-ready features for their open-source infrastructure access platform. Our engineering and design teams work across the platform – from architecting the plugin ecosystem and deployment strategies to transforming their documentation into a powerful growth driver with Next.js. Combining deep Go expertise with product thinking, we continue as their technical partner driving R&D initiatives as well as building core features that support their growth..
We loved how the Martian engineering team worked on Teleport plugins: everything from the way they communicated and approached the project to their code quality, their curiosity, and their striving to figure out the right way to build things—that left a strong impression on me.
- TinesEvil Martians helped an advanced security orchestration and automation platform, Tines, with the core product, covering UI design, frontend, and backend. Our team designed a pro-oriented interface easy-to-use even for newcomers.
- Backed
- by Index Ventures
- $90M+
- total funding
- PlaybookSince 2021, Evil Martians has collaborated with Playbook to build a next-generation cloud platform for creatives that serves 700,000+ users worldwide. Our engineering teams have developed their core platform features – from ML-powered visual search and AI-assisted file management to Figma plugin and third-party integrations. Our relationship deepened when Playbook acquired CanFY, an AI assistant platform we incubated, bringing advanced image recognition and natural language processing capabilities to their creative ecosystem.
- $22M+
- total funding
- StackBlitzSince 2021, Evil Martians has worked with StackBlitz to scale their browser-based development platform that serves 2M+ developers monthly. Our engineering teams contribute across their infrastructure—from core WebContainer technology to enterprise features and bolt.new, their pioneering AI-powered IDE. Combining deep expertise in browser technologies with scalable architecture, we continue as their technical partner in transforming how developers build and deploy applications.
- $8M
- total funding
- Backed
- by GV
- NATSNATS is an open-source messaging system, a secure connective technology for modern distributed systems at the edge and in the cloud. The team reached out to Evil Martians to improve the performance of NATS's Ruby SDK, and we ended up speeding it up by more than three times for high-load cases.
- $25M
- total funding
- Built
- by Synadia
This was a major enhancement to the client so I appreciate the practical solution that was implemented to boost the client's performance and scalability.
- IterativeIterative is an open source data and models versioning tool for Machine Learning projects, built by Iterative.ai. Evil Martians were instrumental in refashioning the critical web resources and building UI and frontend for DVC Studio.
- $25M+
- total funding
- 400+
- customers
- HTTPieHTTPie is an open-source API testing client. The team called on Evil Martians to create the Web & Desktop version of the application. Though we started by building a complex professional UI design, we also helped add new features on the frontend and backend.
- $6.5M
- total funding
- Backed
- by Coatue
- YettoWe helped Yetto create the next generation of support tooling, built from the ground up to streamline the work of supporting customers for all the teams involved in this process.
- AptosA versatile layer-1 blockchain designed to adapt and evolve, providing a comprehensive network where developers can construct innovative projects. Our contribution to Aptos included the design and development of a distinctive portal and an AI assistant, enhancing their ecosystem.
- $350M+
- total funding
- 2.3M+
- active users
- Ghost SecurityGhost Security is a startup working on a security platform for enterprise and web applications that makes it possible to find vulnerabilities and measure the risks of their cloud infrastructures. During their mission to deliver security engineers an insightful, noise-less, and aesthetic UX inside a product that stands out in the oversaturated and effective field of security apps, the team invited Evil Martians to create their MVP’s UI design and to build its frontend together with the core team.
- $15M
- total funding
Evil Martians are truly in an elite class of modern design experts. Highly recommend if you need design/dev team who know their stuff and are just top notch people to work with.
- RootlyRootly is a Y Combinator startup developing an incident management platform. The team needed an urgent design makeover for their core marketing assets—and they asked Evil Martians to implement it on the frontend and backend, add new design elements, and systematize the UI components.
- +$15M
- total funding
- Backed
- by Y Combinator
- TegonTegon, the open source AI-first issue tracker, faced the challenge of changing its UI and UX to set the product apart from other issue trackers. Evil Martians took charge of this transformation, successfully redesigning the core experience and bringing forward new ideas for AI-first features to further enhance the issue tracker UX above and beyond. Our contributions helped Tegon launch version 2.0 in just 2.5 months, with well-received results.
- 1000+ stars
- in 3 months after launch
- Backed
- by Y Combinator
- KeygenKeygen is a fair source software licensing and distribution API that is open sourced and enterprise-grade. This developer-first tool can significantly reduce development time by simplifying access to licenses. Our team built Keygen Relay, an offline-first on-premise CLI server written in Go, to help users with non-cloud infrastructure (e.g., private networks) work effectively with license distribution.
- AkeeroAkeero is an AWS architecture audit platform. Evil Martians created a professional UI, built the frontend, including a key feature—a visual collaborative real-time editor for architecture's design. The Martians helped the team to release an MVP in just 4 months.
- $1.2M
- total funding
- RecraftRecraft is shaping the future of AI-driven creativity. Our collaboration introduced a custom Discord bot, streamlining client acquisition and engagement. Plus, our tailored analytics enabled data-driven decisions, allowing for monitoring of the success of this customer acquisition channel.
- $12M+
- total funding
- 1M+
- users
- CertoraCertora provides advanced security analysis tools for Smart Contracts, including a one-of-its-kind accessible and cost-efficient formal verification tool. Evil Martians helped them build a handy VS Code plugin for analyzing the verification results in the IDE.
- $40M+
- total funding
- Backed
- by Tiger Global Management
We had a great project with Evil Martians and we are progressing with more versions of the plugin as well as other products.
- WaveWave, a brand-new developer tool, is an AI-powered command line terminal based on open web standards. This startup’s team needed a new and stand-out UI design but one that was also newbie-programmer-friendly.
- eBayEvil Martians have been cooperating with eBay, a global marketplace leader, since 2014, shipping two official eBay spin-offs—eBaymag and eBay Bonus. Martians are behind all the tech and product development, analytics, design, and SRE in both projects.
- FountainAs a core technical team behind Fountain’s software, doing backend and frontend development and being responsible for scaling the software, we were happy to see them become an industry leading hiring platform for hourly workers.
- $220M
- total funding
- Backed
- by Softbank, Y Combinator
- PodiumEvil Martians have developed a mobile application for Podium (featured in Inc. 500, Forbes, Fast Company), the leading interaction platform for local business. In 2021, Podium Corp.’s valuation doubled to more than $3B at the time of their latest round of fundraising.
- $420M
- total funding
- Backed
- by Accel, GV, Y Combinator
- GettGett is a leading on-demand mobility company in UK, Israel, US, and CIS countries. Evil Martians helped with backend/frontend development and training, which allowed Gett to switch to microservice-oriented architecture faster.
- $930M
- total funding
- 1M+
- drivers
- BlockscoutBlockscout is the first fully-featured open source blockchain explorer that provides access to data, analytics, and decentralized apps (dApps) from 100+ Ethereum-based chains. Evil Martians designed and built the frontend for new, cutting-edge features that would help the explorer gain traction in the highly competitive blockchain industry.
- 100+
- chains to access
- ChowbusEvil Martians helped the fast-paced food delivery platform improve its backend performance and reliability and speed up new feature development. We contributed to the system design and architecture, backend and frontend, ensuring zero-downtime releases.
- $70M
- total funding
- 21
- US cities served
- MonographWe helped Monograph, who builds a back-office tool for architects, migrate the backend to GraphQL, move the frontend part from the monolith to the Next application, and accelerate and create financial reports. We also led some trainings.
- $30M
- total funding
- Backed
- by Index Ventures, Tiger
- Fund That FlipFund That Flip is a leader in online lending that specializes in funding rehab and new construction projects. Martians introduced best practices that accelerated the engineering process and reduced test suit execution time by 66%.
- $30M+
- total funding
- $1B+
- real estate investments
- HealthieHealthie is an all-in-one SaaS solution for virtual-first healthcare and wellness companies to automate and streamline back-office operations and build longitudinal relationships with their clients. They asked our team to help with the gradual migration of their real-time features from Action Cable to AnyCable Pro and other backend challenges.
- $18M
- total funding
- 2,000+
- organizations
- CommonAs a leading co-living platform, Common designs, creates, and operates all-inclusive homes. Martians were responsible for backend, frontend, and mobile development for the Connect by Common app.
- 11
- cities
- $110M+
- total funding
- ZiplineZipline is a retail communication and task management platform. Martians helped improve the infrastructure, built some key product features, and brought large-scale optimization to boost performance and sped up engineering.
- $40M
- total funding
- 226K+
- users
All Evil Martians folks are doing an amazing job, they’re excellent in communication, and the costs are competitive. We absolutely love working with you guys.
- MayhemMayhem brings gamers together in tournaments, leagues, and other real-time community-driven events. Evil Martians resolved performance bottlenecks in the project’s backend, stemming from Mayhem’s active user base’s rapid growth.
- $5.7M
- total funding
- Backed
- by Y Combinator, Accel
- Lowkey.ggLowkey.gg is a gaming startup that helps esports teams to train and study competitors’ strategies. The Martian team brought Lowkey’s app CPU usage from over 30% to less than 5% while recording a Full HD video with 60 FPS.
- $8.6M
- total funding
- Backed
- by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator
The Evil Martians team was extremely helpful and professional throughout the entire process. Their developers are some of the most technically skilled people that we’ve worked with.
- 2UMartians helped 2U achieve the strategic goal of reorganizing its microservices architecture by safe migration GraphQL API to Apollo Federation with zero downtime and fewer expenses.
- $427M
- total funding
- 225K
- students
Evil Martians have been instrumental in guiding many of 2U’s Academic-Product teams through a difficult transition to new technology and paradigms as we migrated from a schema-stitched implementation to Apollo’s Federation.
- LoeweThis German manufacturer is a pioneer in televisions and entertainment electronics. Their brand-new cross-platform mobile app “my Loewe” designed and built by Evil Martians was a part of a new business strategy.
- VitoWe helped the Tito team shape and optimize new infrastructure for their two platforms—event hosting (Vito) and ticket selling (Tito). Our SRE work included the introduction of brand-new K8s infrastructure, performance and cost optimizations, and migration to imgproxy for faster image optimization and AnyCable Pro for better real-time online event hosting.
- $1.4M
- total funding
- VstageWe helped Vstage build a key feature for their flagship conferencing product, Virtual Lobby, which enhances gamification and networking during breaks between conference talks. We shipped the initial design concept, backend, and frontend, and deployed infrastructure capable of hosting thousands of concurrent users.
- XyteXyte provides a B2B platform for IoT and hardware manufacturers in North America and Israel. We helped the team to optimize the backend, improve their architecture and codebase, and better their testing process while also training the team to work with the best engineering patterns.
- $6.4M
- total funding
- Winner
- of Inavation business awards 2021
- TeamableTopFunnel is an automation platform for recruitment processes. After the acquisition of another company, Teamable, Evil Martians helped merge their Ruby on Rails and Python-based products and migrate some business logic, data, and features into the main application.
- Sera SystemsSera Systems, a cloud-based software platform that automates back-office processes for home service businesses, asked for help running real-time features and ensuring no-brainer maintenance: our team migrated their GPS tracker to AnyCable and sped up the AWS ECS-based infrastructure.
- $12M
- total funding
- SynonymSynonym develops, finances and builds commercial-scale biomanufacturing infrastructure for synthetic biology companies that manufacture the next generation of sustainable products like alternative proteins, biomaterials and biopolymers. Our team helped them launch some critical business products, all while delivering them on a tight schedule.
- Backed
- by Andreessen Horowitz
- $6M+
- total funding
Evil Martians have a lot of expertise in building high-touch consumer-facing products and it was very helpful to have their perspective and guidance in our product development and launch process. We came to them with an initial idea and they helped us work through key decisions to bring the product to life.
- NeuromationMartians helped to improve the documentation platform for Neuromation, the AI marketplace & development platform that pioneers the use of synthetic data to build more capable computer vision AI.
- $20M
- total funding
- JetCryptoJetCrypto is a cryptocurrency infrastructure platform providing worldwide exchange operations via retail channels—POS, ATM, and bank cards. Evil Martians implemented a new dashboard for platform management.
- $2.1M
- total funding
- MilyEvil Martians helped Mily (ex-Kin)—a community-driven, tailor-made housing platform for families, to launch their mobile application.
- ZeptoLabZeptoLab is a global gaming company dedicated to the science of fun. Evil Martians helped ZeptoLab with building an internal analytics tool.
- 1B+
- Cut the Rope game downloads
- 3B+
- Om Nom Stories cartoon views
- GrouponEvil Martians spent 6 years with one of Groupon's local products in a core tech team role. We supported scaling, implemented new features and offers in record-breaking time, and fought against DDoS attacks under the project’s fairly insane growth.
- 18M+
- users
- 15
- countries
Back then, we chose Evil Martians for cooperation, and our further experience revealed that it was the right thing to do. Evil Martians is probably the strongest team in web-dev. They deliver a complex product of outstanding quality, where everything just works as expected.
- CoinCabinetCoinCabinet allows numismatists to search for lost provenances. We created a machine learning system to scan auction catalogs, and then find coins within those catalogs in a matter of seconds.
- FeedFEED is a social video iOS app with real-time communication, collective movies, and co-streaming features built from scratch by a core tech team from Evil Martians using the latest mobile technologies and machine learning systems.
- EntyEnty is the UK-based style advice mobile application disrupting the market of professional stylists’ services. We’ve been the core development team responsible for product development, UI design, mobile, and backend development.
Money isn’t enough to hire the best product teams, like the Evil Martians. if you want to hire great people to build your product, you need to convince them that your vision has potential.
- RocketbankEvil Martians launched Rocketbank, the scene-disrupting, genre-defining mobile-only bank in Eastern Europe.
- $2.1M
- total funding