Aurora Labs raises $75M to scale its on-device multimodal AI for UX teams

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Aurora Labs announced a $75 million Series B led by Northview Capital, with participation from existing backers and a new strategic investor in the design tooling space. The company says the capital will be used to scale on-device model training, expand its multimodal LLM that combines vision, audio, and text, and accelerate enterprise integrations.

The startup's flagship product, Aurora Studio, runs locally and can analyze design files, record user interviews, and generate interaction patterns without cloud upload. The forthcoming Mac and Windows SDKs will let design teams embed Aurora's assistant into native apps and prototype tools, offering features like automated accessibility audits, voice-driven prototyping, and image-to-reactive-component conversion.

For UX professionals, the biggest promise is privacy-preserving AI that integrates with sensitive user research. Aurora emphasizes auditability and local inference to address compliance and ethics concerns, while also delivering speed gains for iterative design. The company also unveiled partnerships with two major Figma plugin developers for early access.

Investors say Aurora's timing is favorable as organizations move to hybrid architectures, balancing cloud scale with on-device privacy. The company expects developer previews of the SDKs later this summer and general availability targeted for Q4 2026.