Elena Vance
Founder & CEO
Former Infrastructure Engineer at Stripe. Obsessed with build systems and developer tooling.
"We built Texkit because existing tools forced us to choose between speed and structure." — Elena Vance, Founder & CEO
Our Mission
To empower developers to treat text as code.
We believe that documentation, documentation sites, and structured content are first-class software artifacts. They deserve the same rigor, testing, and automation as application logic.
The Journey
From garage to global platform.
2019
Founded in Austin, TX.
Elena Vance and Alex Chen started coding on a shared laptop to solve their own documentation pain points.
2020
Open Source Launch.
Released the core engine under MIT license. Community adoption grew rapidly within the engineering community.
2022
Series A Funding.
Secured $12M in funding to expand the engineering team and launch the Cloud platform.
2024
Global Expansion.
Opened offices in London and Singapore; adopted as the standard for two Fortune 500 tech stacks.
The Team
Building the future of text.
Alex Chen
CTO
PhD in Computer Science. Author of several open-source parser libraries and a staunch advocate for static analysis.
Sarah Jenkins
Head of Product
5 years of experience designing SaaS tools for technical audiences. Believes in "less, but better".
David Okonjo
Lead Developer
Full-stack wizard. Maintains the core compiler and manages the CI/CD pipelines that run the company.
Core Values
How we build.
Precision
Every variable is typed. Every schema is validated. We don't guess; we verify. This is the foundation of trust in your documentation.
Openness
Our core is MIT-licensed. Our APIs are documented. We believe transparency is the best way to build a sustainable ecosystem.
Craft
We obsess over the details—the typefaces, the CLI UX, the error messages. We treat our tool as a product, not a utility.
Velocity
We value speed, but we value the right kind of speed. Fast enough to ship, but consistent enough to scale.
Investors & Advisors
Trusted by the best.
Sequoia Capital
Y Combinator
Index Ventures
Techstars
Advisors
Sarah Drasner
VP of Engineering, Vercel
Brian Holt
Former SVP Engineering, Stripe
Join the Team
We're looking for engineers who care about the spaces between the code.