Figma
Figma is a San Francisco-based collaborative design platform incorporated in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace, offering browser-based tools for interface design, prototyping, developer handoff and whiteboarding via FigJam. Now a public company, it had around 1,900 employees as of 2026.
- Sector
- Design software
- Business model
- B2B SaaS
- Founded
- 2012
- Founders
- Dylan Field, Evan Wallace
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, US
- Offices
- San Francisco, London, Tel Aviv
- Status
- NYSE-listed (NYSE: FIG)
Sources: research.contrary.com, figma.com, en.wikipedia.org, tradingview.com
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Milestones
- 2012 Founded by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace en.wikipedia.org
- Sept 2016 Public product release en.wikipedia.org
- Sept 2022 Adobe announced US$20B acquisition deal en.wikipedia.org
What others say about Figma
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Then Figma makes you invite your teammates to even have it be useful.”
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Andrew McCarthyGM of ANZ, SEA and India, Notion In The Blink Of AI · Why Notion Is Betting on AI Building Blo… · 20:43 ▶ the Adobe and Figma deal didn't go through, super costly for both sides. I I saw that Microsoft had to pay— not Microsoft, sorry, Adobe had to pay Figma $1 billion in a break fee for that contract.”
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