Figma
Collaborative interface design tool in the browser, founded 2012; on the NYSE from 2025.
At a glance
Who owns it
Investors include Index Ventures, Greylock and 4 others.
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Dylan Field (CEO), Evan Wallace and Claire Butler
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- Figma is a web-based tool for designing user interfaces that many people can edit at once, made by Figma, Inc. of San Francisco.
- Dylan Field and Evan Wallace started it in 2012 while studying computer science at Brown; it opened to the public in September 2016 and had 13 million users by 2025.
- Adobe agreed to buy it for about $20 billion in September 2022, and the two called the deal off in December 2023 over regulators' objections.
- Figma went public on the New York Stock Exchange on 31 July 2025.
Why it matters
- The design tool most product teams work in; it moved interface design into the browser.
Key facts
- Founded
- 2012, by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace, students at Brown University1
- Launch
- Invite-only preview from 3 December 2015; first public release 27 September 20161
- Products
- Figma Design, FigJam (a whiteboard, April 2021), Dev Mode and Figma Sites (beta, May 2025), among others1
- Adobe
- Adobe agreed on 15 September 2022 to buy Figma for about $20 billion; both abandoned the deal on 18 December 2023, and Adobe paid a $1 billion break-up fee1
- Listing
- New York Stock Exchange, ticker FIG, from 31 July 2025; market value $56.3 billion at the first day's close, under $10 billion by June 20261
- Users
- 13 million in 20251
Who owns it
Investors include Index Ventures, Greylock and 4 others.
Investors
- Index Ventures
led the $3.8 million seed round · since Jun 2013 1
- Greylock
led the $14 million Series A · since Dec 2015 1
- Kleiner Perkins
led the $25 million Series B · since Feb 2018 1
- Sequoia Capital
led the $40 million Series C · since Feb 2019 1
- Andreessen Horowitz
led the $50 million Series D · since Apr 2020 1
- Durable Capital Partners
led the $200 million Series E · since Jun 2021 1
People
Led by
Founded by
- Dylan FieldPerson
- Evan Wallace
People
- Claire ButlerPerson
First go-to-market hire and 10th employee; senior director of marketing (as of September 2023) 3
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