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Design Partner for Venture Backed Startups

Our team with previous experience from NVIDIA, Google, and $700M+ startups will embed into your team.

Quill

UX Design

Luna

UX Design

AR Shopping App

UX Design

Cayda

UX Design

Serro

UX Design

Roya

Branding

Lucidic

Branding

Gekit

Branding

Why Patina?

We are a product design studio with designers who previously worked at NVIDIA, Google and were founding designers at $700M+ startups. Patina has worked with companies backed by investors including YCombinator, a16z, South Park Commons, 10VC and other leading funds.

Our founder taught "The Business of Design" at Harvard. We design for outcomes — not just how things look, but how they drive engagement, retention, and the metrics your next round depends on.

A senior design team on day one
See your first designs in 10 days.

You make an intro at a pre-negotiated rate

Send us the founder. Your portfolio companies start at a pre-negotiated partner rate — no pricing back-and-forth, no procurement friction. Just a warm intro and we take it from there.

We integrate a senior designer and design lead into their team

A senior designer and a design lead drop straight into their team. We're in their Slack within days, working as if we were the first design hires they never had to make.

We research and understand their business and users

We dig into their users, business model, and competitive landscape until we understand the product as well as the founders do — so every design decision is grounded in their reality.

We show them MVP designs in 10 days

First screens land for review within 10 days of kickoff. Fast enough to keep up with an early-stage roadmap, polished enough to put in front of users and investors.

We own design end to end as their long-term partner

From brand and product to design systems, we own design end to end as their long-term partner — staying embedded through new features, new surfaces, and every fundraise.

Launch, test, and repeat

We ship, watch how real users behave, and refine around the metrics that move activation and retention — then run the loop again so the product keeps getting sharper.

What founders say

"Patina did a really great job on our project. They quickly understood our users, business goals, and product requirements, and translated them into clean, thoughtful designs. They moved fast, communicated clearly throughout the process, and made collaboration easy."

Mike, Co-Founder, Heavi AI

"[Patina] was awesome to work with! We wanted flexibility and they accommodated us immediately. They were also extremely fast at replying to requests and had super-fast turnarounds for redesigning. They are amazing to work with as a designer and also produces incredible designs and branding!"

Jeremy, Co-Founder, Lucidic AI

"[Patina] is awesome! I'd highly recommend them. They helped craft our brand from day zero. They were not only a designer but a thought partner, helping us rethink how we present our company to customer."

Liam, Co-Founder, Freedom

"Sreeni is one of the best UX designers I've worked with. She can bring clarity to hard user problems. She has a great eye for design, asks the right questions, and consistently elevates the quality of the product. Beyond that, she's thoughtful, reliable, and great to work with."

Co-Founder, Agora

Designs their users love,
for every company you back.

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Design Partner for Venture Backed Startups

Quill

Luna

AR Shopping App

Cayda

Serro

Roya

Lucidic

Gekit

Why Patina?

A senior design team on day one See your first designs in 10 days.

Designs their users love, for every company you back.

A senior design team on day one
See your first designs in 10 days.

Designs their users love,
for every company you back.