Airfoil

About Airfoil

Airfoil is a collective of designers, engineers, and artists helping cutting-edge products in crypto, the creator economy, and future of work take flight. Since our inception in 2019, we’ve worked with 80+ teams to bring their products to market, including Drift Protocol, Layer3.xyz, Solana Labs, Playhouse, Highbeam, and more.

We support founders from inception to hypergrowth, providing product design, branding, illustration, user testing, frontend/backend engineering, and go-to-market support to help projects get off the ground.

We also build and incubate new ventures at Airfoil, including Onramp, our DeFi product studio, Modu Fellowship, our fellowship for rising designers, and Mira, our newsletter reading and publishing platform.

Our story

Airfoil was founded in 2019 as a home for Phil Hedayatnia's creative projects while at South Park Commons. Phil gradually expanded the team to tackle more contract work for his peers at SPC, and later spun off Airfoil as a standalone creative design and growth agency focused on helping early stage technology companies "take flight" with the assistance of Airfoil's design team. By the end of 2020, Airfoil's client base exceeded 20 companies; by the end of 2021, we're on track to work with 80+.

In 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, we refocused Airfoil as a pure "design company" across two areas: Airfoil Studio, our design agency focused on early-stage ventures, and Airfoil Ventures, our internal product incubator working on new ideas in the future of work, future of media, and creator economy. Across both, we're now a team of 40+ creative designers, engineers, and product managers working together on projects that challenge us creatively.

Our vision

At its core, what we all want as creatives is the ability to pursue our dreams: to leave each day more knowledgeable or experienced than our last, leave an impact on our world by inventing the future, and experience the joy of seeing something we've lovingly crafted come to life. 

We're a startup, but not one that's trying to create a product. We're trying to create an environment where everyone can do their best work and experience the joy of practicing their craft at the top of their game.