Startup teams,senior craft.

Ship the quality of a senior in-house team, at the speed of a startup.

Shyft partners with founders and product leaders to design, build, and launch web, mobile, and AI products. Every engagement is staffed with senior designers and engineers who join your standup, your Slack, and your roadmap — you get the output of an in-house team without the overhead of hiring one.

Six years, one operating model.

We started Shyft in 2019 after a decade of building products inside startups and studios — tired of the handoffs, the account-manager theater, and the six-month timelines. Since then we've worked with 90+ startups across SaaS, fintech, consumer, and AI, shipped to 100M+ users, and helped founders raise more than $150M.

THESHYFT

Milestones from 2019 to today.

2019 · Q1

Shyft is founded in Indore with three designers and one shared laptop.

2019 · Q4

First zero-to-one product ships — a fintech app that reaches 50k users in three months.

2020

Ten clients in year one, all still referring us today.

2021

Development team opens; we start shipping design + code from one room.

2022

First $10M Series A raised by a Shyft-designed product.

2023

Embedded-team model formalized — senior-only, no juniors on client work.

2024

Fintech work begins — 316 Money and Finanjo ship to market.

2025

New York and San Francisco studios open; the team crosses forty.

2026 · Today

90+ startups shipped, $150M+ raised, three exits — and we still demo every Friday.

The founding team.

Aarav Menon
Co-founder & Design Principal.
Priya Iyer
Co-founder & Head of Engineering.
Dhruv Kapoor
Co-founder & Head of Strategy.

Trusted by founders and teams who ship.

316 Money

Loominote

Finanjo

Living Concept

Connexions

Acework

Nimbus

Corely

Brightside

Tandem

Northwind

Vantage

Quill

Kindred

Parcel