Gigster, an app and website development and design provider for enterprises, announced a $10 million funding round, as it said “investing in its core technology and market position is key to cementing its vision to become the world’s engineering department”.

The company says it has expertise in iOS, watchOS and Android as well as APIs and toolkits, and can provide a single engineer or an entire team to businesses of all sizes, along with quality assurance and testing services.

With Gigster, customers chat with a product manager, get a fixed-price quote, and hire a development team.

The company said it provides engineering talent trained at MIT, Stanford, and Caltech that is otherwise expensive and hard to get.

“Software development that requires continuous recruiting and months of development time writing code from scratch is slow and costly, and not necessarily a consistent internal need of all startups or large enterprises,” said Roger Dickey, CEO of Gigster.

Gigster is also working on building a higher level language for software, with every project feeding into a “central brain that uses AI and machine learning to optimise efficiency”.

Apps created with Gigster’s help include Tealeaf, a sports prediction app; Pressed, which helps users track schedules; and Adhawk, whose founders used to work for Google’s Adsense team.

“Gigster is filling an important, unmet need in today’s digital world,” said Lars Dalgaard, partner at Andreessen Horowitz, which led the funding round. Dalgaard will join Gigster’s board.

The round saw participation from Y Combinator Continuity Fund I, SV Angel, Sound Ventures and Launch Fund.