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

AI concierge tool for enterprises
Evil Martians partnered with a renowned agent support platform to streamline AI-driven development, building a scalable design system and efficient developer workflows. We delivered secure, enterprise-ready infrastructure, from DevContainers to production VoIP integrations.
$250M
raised
$3B+
total valuation
Bolt.new
Evil Martians and StackBlitz: tech partners since 2021. Our engineers helped scale their WebContainers platform from pioneering browser IDE to bolt.new—the AI-powered tool that hit $20M+ ARR in just 2 months and disrupted the industry of vibe coding. We've built core infrastructure powering 3M+ monthly developers, from backend Rails to enterprise features and performance optimization. Together, we're transforming how developers build worldwide.
$113M
total funding
$700M
valuation
Tines
Evil 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.
$271M
total funding
$1.125B
valuation
Teleport
Evil 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..
$169M
total funding
$1.1B
valuation
Daylight Security
Daylight Security is a cybersecurity platform that combines autonomous AI workflows with expert-led SOC/MDR services. As the platform scaled toward enterprise adoption, Evil Martians joined as a design partner to elevate the product experience.
$40M
total funding
NATS
NATS by Synadia is an open-source messaging system, a secure connective technology for modern distributed systems at the edge and in the cloud. They 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
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.
Wally Quevedo
Synadia Communications, NATS core maintainer
Lago
Lago is an open-source metering and billing system that partnered with Evil Martians to scale their engineering team, keep product development moving fast, and maintain high quality.
$22M
total funding
Wallarm
We helped Wallarm, an API security platform, redesign and optimize their Go-based event processing pipeline that handles critical security data through NATS messaging and ClickHouse storage, and guided their team through architectural improvements and urgent feature implementations.
$75M
total funding
20K+
Protected apps and APIs
Buildkite
Buildkite is a CI/CD platform used by Airbnb, Canva, Pinterest, and Uber. Evil Martians are building a unified design system and migrating legacy components across all product surfaces.
A$59M
total funding
60K+
developers
Lingo.dev
Lingo.dev (YC F24) is a seed-stage AI localization engine with $4.2M in funding. Evil Martians rewrote their open-source bundler plugin from prototype to production in four weeks.
$4.2M
funding
4 weeks
prototype to production
Evil Martians' great technical skills were impressive.
Max Prilutskiy
Co-Founder & CEO, Lingo.dev
BetterUp
BetterUp, the leading coaching and professional development platform, enhanced their cutting-edge AI capabilities with Evil Martians’ support. We collaborated to create an intuitive interface with sophisticated React frontend and scalable AWS backend that maintained BetterUp’s commitment to enterprise-grade security. All while pushing the boundaries of AI-powered coaching.
$570M+
total funding
4,000+
ICF-certified coaches
Playbook
Since 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
Recraft
Recraft 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.
$42M
total funding
1M+
users
Thicket
Thicket is an educational marketplace where PhD-level experts share knowledge with curious learners. Evil Martians built a course marketplace in two weeks to validate the idea; now we're about to open it for sign-ups so anyone can enroll in a live course they're interested in.
2 weeks
to a live homepage
Evil Martians could quickly anticipate future hurdles and identify solutions.
Nicholas Constantino
Founder, Thicket
Devpost
Devpost is the leading platform for hackathons and developer communities. Evil Martians migrated their infrastructure from EngineYard to Railway and strengthened their security and performance posture.
1,200+
hackathons per year
$10.5M
total funding
Rootly
Rootly 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
Whop
Evil Martians worked with Whop, a creator marketplace platform, on resolving critical performance challenges. We implemented data denormalization strategies, developed data seeding solutions with evil-seed, and enhanced their developer experience to support their rapid growth.
$273M
total funding
$1.6B
valuation
Quotient
We designed a playground for prompt engineers and helped Quotient AI build this developer-first interface for evaluating LLMs.
Acquired
by Databricks
Steel
Evil Martians provided technical expertise and development support for Steel, an open-source browser API that lets you control fleets of browsers in the cloud. Working within their monorepo architecture, we strengthened their browser infrastructure and added new features for their Steel Browser while maintaining their open-source ethos.
6.9K
GitHub stars
Aptos
Aptos is a modern Layer-1 blockchain built for seamless upgrades and real-world performance. We helped expand their ecosystem by creating one of their core web portals, implementing an AI-powered development assistant, and crafting technical content that showcases Aptos’ unique features to blockchain developers.
$350M+
total funding
5M+
active users
Doximity
Evil Martians helped Doximity, the leading digital platform for medical professionals, add real-time features to their Rails app by integrating AnyCable.
$10B+
total valuation
80%
of US doctors as users
Major gaming platform
For 18 months, Evil Martians partnered with a major gaming platform to build a unified UI infrastructure serving 12.3 million developers and game creators. We laid the foundation for a unified UI library in Luau React for the company and established CI/CD pipeline for continuous delivery, improving developer velocity.
$1B
paid out to game creators
12.3M
monthly active game developers
Stealth Startup in Cybersecurity
We partnered with a stealth startup in the early stages of product development to design and build their MVP, providing end-to-end support across frontend, design, and product strategy. Over seven months, we led technical execution and helped the founding team launch with confidence freeing them to focus on fundraising and hiring.
$2.7M
total funding
Factorial
Factorial is a fast-growing HR platform built on a large Ruby monolith. Evil Martians are helping optimize their GraphQL layer and prepare the database for global scale.
$120M+
total funding
Remi
Remi (YC W22) connects homeowners, roofers, and enterprises in their CRM platform. Evil Martians helped make the product mobile-ready and redesign core table experiences.
$21.5M
total funding
Exponent.run
Evil Martians contributed to reducing long-term technical risks in the MVP by rigorously stress-testing core functionality, refining edge-case behavior (such as stdin handling and long-running processes), and enhancing the user experience around code streaming and interaction flows.
GMI Cloud
In a matter of weeks, Evil Martians delivered a fully functional website with conversion-driven pages tailored specifically around the goals of GMI Cloud, a California-based GPU cloud infrastructure provider.
$82M
total funding
eBay
Evil 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.
eBaymag eBay Bonus
Ghost Security
Ghost 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.
Josh Larsen
Co-founder and CTO at Ghost Security
ClickFunnels
Evil Martians partnered with ClickFunnels, a leading sales funnel platform, to stabilize their AnyCable infrastructure and optimize test suite. Our team eliminated flaky tests, migrated end-to-end tests to Ruby, and implemented sanity tests while identifying performance bottlenecks to improve test reliability.
The team was highly responsive to our needs throughout the projects, and they met every goal we set.
Nate Vick
VP Platform Engineering, ClickFunnels
Medplum
We designed a demo app for Medplum (YC S22), API-first open source healthcare developer platform.
Scout
Scout is a performance monitoring tool that helps developers quickly identify and resolve performance issues. Evil Martians came on board to help refine their website design and tone of voice, and overhaul their copy to more effectively showcase their product value. We determined the viability of their social media channels and blog, provided a short-term and long-term content strategy, and continue to work providing editorial work and guidance on developing a writing culture within their technical team.
Wawa Fertility
Wawa Fertility is a platform helping clinics streamline fertility care through personalized, easy-to-manage solutions. To move faster while maintaining quality, they partner with Martians for senior dev expertise, tech research, and quick, focused delivery. Together, we work in agile sprints to build and ship high-impact features efficiently.
Iterative
Iterative 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
HTTPie
HTTPie 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
Yetto
We 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.
Tegon
Tegon, 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
Keygen
Keygen 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.
Tesote
Tesote, a fintech company transforming the way CFOs manage their treasury operations, worked with Evil Martians to develop critical bank integrations enabling the secure connection of over 700 customer bank accounts across 40+ workspaces. Additionally, we established logging and error monitoring for bank sync sessions, which power the Metabase dashboards used daily by the Tesote team.
100+ orgs
in the first year
Evil Martians was awesome to work with.
Luis Pulgar
Co-Founder & CEO, Tesote
Photobucket
Photobucket is an image and video hosting service that allows users to upload, store, edit, and share their media online. We helped them launch a new Go-based feature on a tight deadline by embedding a developer into their team. It was great collaborating, sharing best practices, and setting them up for long-term success.
$38M+
total funding
35M+
active monthly users
Wave
Wave, 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.
Fountain
As 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
Podium
Evil 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
Gett
Gett 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
Chowbus
Evil 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
Monograph
We 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
imgproxy
We’re proud that this Martian-built open source project has gained its independence but remains the fastest and most secure image processing tool on the market! To highlight these differentiators, we refreshed their brand identity, redesigned and launched a new website, developed a content strategy, and kicked off copywriting for the imgproxy blog and social channels.
Built
by Evil Martians
Mayhem
Mayhem 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.
Acquired
by Niantic
Lowkey.gg
Lowkey.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.
Acquired
by Niantic
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.
Jesse Zhang
CEO, Lowkey.gg
2U
Martians 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.
Michael Schechter
Director of Engineering, 2U
Synonym
Synonym 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.
$26.3M
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.
Alex Jaffe
Product at Synonym
Neuromation
Martians 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
Groupon
Evil 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.
Viktor Lysenko
ex-CEO & Founder, Country Manager
Rocketbank
Evil Martians launched Rocketbank, the scene-disrupting, genre-defining mobile-only bank in Eastern Europe.
$2.1M
total funding
Akeero
Akeero 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
Certora
Certora 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.
Uri Kirstein
Software Engineer, Certora
Blockscout
Blockscout 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
Fund That Flip
Fund 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
Healthie
Healthie 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
Common
As 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
Zipline
Zipline 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.
Ben Consgrave
VP of Engineering, Retail Zipline
Sera Systems
Sera 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
SumIt
SumIt is a tailored platform specifically designed for family offices. Starting with accounting and financial reporting, Evil Martians built a sophisticated multi-step form wizard for their custom reports builder using Ruby on Rails and Hotwire.
$5M
total funding
$2.5T
managed family office assets