Nova provides a software development platform that lets businesses co-build and own mission-critical applications while leveraging a shared, maintained technical backbone. The platform offers reusable modules for access control, workflows, audit trails, and APIs, so teams can focus on building unique logic instead of foundational plumbing. Clients retain full ownership of custom code and run in separate environments with their own data.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Product
Problem
Many businesses depend on off-the-shelf software that they don't control, leaving them unable to adapt core workflows to changing needs. Alternatively, custom development often begins from scratch, which is slow, expensive, and leaves companies dependent on outside agencies. Building on generic platforms can also create lock-in and obscure ownership of the resulting code.
Solution
Nova provides a shared technical foundation and a senior team to co-build mission-critical software that belongs to the client. The platform includes Nova Backbone, a set of common capabilities such as access control, workflow orchestration, human oversight, audit logging, and developer APIs, so teams don't have to rebuild the basics. Clients build their own screens, domain logic, and integrations on top, keeping full ownership of custom development while Nova maintains the underlying backbone and modules. Each customer runs in a separate environment with its own data, and systems of record can stay in place, as integrations connect rather than relocate data.
Target Audience
Nova serves businesses that need reliable, customized software for critical operations, including product teams, ventures, and internal IT departments that want to own and control their mission-critical applications without building foundational infrastructure from scratch.
Features
- Nova Backbone covering access & permissions, workflows & human oversight, visibility & audit, admin & configuration, and APIs & developer tools
- Reusable modules licensed separately, including data connectors and custom integrations to specific sources
- Own environments per customer with no shared databases, ensuring data isolation and tenant separation
- Flexibility to connect existing systems of record without forcing data migration
- Options for implementation and maintenance by Nova, the client's own team, or a certified partner
- Clear licensing model where clients own all custom development and Nova maintains the shared Backbone and modules