The company was incubated through
Y Combinator's startup program in 2011. In September 2013,
SparkFun Electronics released their open source design library on the platform. In March 2014, the company announced it had raised $2.3 million in seed funding. As of August 2014, the company claimed to have over 20,000 registered users.
Upverter and Altium In August 2017, Upverter was acquired by
Altium, and was offered as a free-to-use product. Altium announced on May 14, 2018 that
CircuitMaker, Altium's free maker-oriented design tool and associated web content, would become part of the Upverter product, with
CircuitMaker forming the desktop client for offline editing, and Upverter.com forming both the browser based design editor along with content community and library. However, in a blog post on May 11, 2019, Altium
COO Ted Pawela stated that the plans had evolved, and the products would remain separate, with interoperability features for the design files. ==Features==