Mermaid Chart secures a staggering $7.5 million investment with its Markdown-inspired diagramming tool.
Mermaid, the open source diagramming and charting tool, has long been popular with developers for its ability to create diagrams using a Markdown-like language.
They were watching ‘The Little Mermaid.’ That’s why I named that eight years ago.”Early on, Mermaid was mostly about flowcharts, but over time Sveidqvist added other diagram types — and the community quickly made it its own, too.
Firestone told me that the cloud version of the open source project had 4 million users last year.
That’s a market Mermaid Chart is looking to address by building easier-to-use tools for this group of users.
“Mermaid Chart is expanding the community by bringing the benefits of Mermaid to all types of business users, leveraging AI as a catalyst.
