There’s something about a platform called Uno doing the work of many, especially when it’s turning the complexity of enterprise cross-platform development into one clean codebase symphony. No rewrites. No juggling a circus of frameworks. Just precision-engineered productivity for developers who actually give a damn about scale.
Uno Platform just locked in a C$3.5M seed round, led by AQC Capital and Desjardins Capital, with Oliva Capital joining the mix, plus a curveball that only makes the story sweeter: Scott Hanselman, Microsoft’s own VP of Developer Community, stepping in as an angel investor. That’s not just capital, it’s cultural validation from the top of the .NET food chain.
Big congrats to co-founders François Tanguay and Jérôme Laban. This duo didn’t just spin up another dev tool. They built Uno from the ground up inside nventive, François Tanguay’s consulting firm, where it lived undercover for years before being open-sourced at Microsoft Build 2018. Since then, they’ve hit 100M+ NuGet downloads, pulled in 300+ contributors, and landed enterprise clients like Toyota, Microsoft, City of Ottawa, Cineplex, Jean Coutu, iA Financial, and TradeZero. These aren’t vanity logos. These are organizations betting big on Uno’s promise: get to market faster, without the Frankenstein codebase.
And now, with fresh funding and the team’s next play unfolding, they’re about to crank the dial. Uno Platform Studio is coming, a premium dev suite that makes “real-time UI editing” look like child’s play. Their Hot Design feature (yes, patent pending) lets devs pause a live app and design inside it, because when you’re building enterprise apps, that kind of control isn’t luxury. It’s life or death.
Let’s not sugarcoat it: cross-platform development is a graveyard of broken promises. But Uno didn’t take the hype route. They took the Montreal grind route. Tight code, clean architecture, and platform reach that makes .NET MAUI look like it’s playing catch-up. We’re talking iOS, Android, WebAssembly, macOS, Linux, Windows, even Windows 7, for those clients that still run systems like it’s 2010.
This isn’t just a funding round. It’s a lesson in how you build something real: quietly, relentlessly, and then, suddenly, undeniably.
Props to the investors who saw it coming: Frédéric Bastien of AQC Capital, Nathalie Bernard from Desjardins Capital, and Julien Trussart at Oliva Capital. This is what it looks like when Québec capital backs Québec innovation for a global developer stage.
