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"21-Year-Old Thiel Fellow Raises Three-Point-Eight Million Dollars For Figma". "Designers worry Adobe won't let Figma flourish".

^ Weatherbed, Jess (September 21, 2022).

"Adobe shares plunge on deal to acquire design platform Figma for $20 billion". "Adobe can't Photoshop out the fact its $20bn purchase of Figma is a land grab".

^ a b Naughton, John (September 24, 2022).

^ "Adobe to acquire Figma in a deal worth $20 billion".

"Adobe to acquire design platform Figma for $20 billion". "Education Chromebooks are getting Figma, a very cool set of design tools".

"Figma introduces a whiteboard tool called FigJam". "Figma's new community profiles let users view and remix design files". "23-Year-Old's Design Collaboration Tool Figma Launches With $14M To Fight Adobe". "Why Teams at Uber and Slack Use This Powerful Design Tool". ^ a b Berg, Maddie (September 9, 2012).

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"Figma gets $40 million Series C to put design tools in the cloud".

^ a b Crook, Jordan (February 15, 2019).

"Figma Wants Designers to Collaborate Google-Docs Style". įigma was valued at more than $2 billion by April 2020 and $10 billion by the end of May 2021. In June 2021, Figma raised $200 million in a Series E funding round. In April 2020, Figma raised $50 million in a Series D funding round. In February 2019, Figma raised $40 million in Series C funding. In February 2018, Figma raised $25 million in a Series B round. In December 2015, the company raised $14 million in Series A funding. In June 2013, Figma raised $3.8 million in seed funding. Adobe shares fell by 17% following the announcement. John Naughton went as far as comparing the purchase to Facebook, Inc.'s acquisition of WhatsApp in order to prevent it from growing into a competitor to its core businesses. Members of the design community showed concerns for the future of the product-including potential or mandatory integration with Adobe Creative Cloud, or being forced to adopt business models otherwise unfavorable in comparison to those presently used by Figma. The proposed purchase has been criticized on antitrust grounds (in an attempt to supplant its own competing Adobe XD, which had begun to lose market share to Figma by 2021) and as being an overvaluation.

On September 15, 2022, Adobe announced it had entered into an agreement to acquire Figma for about $20 billion in cash and stock, the company's largest acquisition to-date, with Field remaining as CEO. In June 2022, Google for Education announced that it would be partnering with Figma to bring its design and prototyping platform, as well as FigJam, to education Chromebooks. On April 21, 2021, Figma launched a digital whiteboarding capability called FigJam, allowing users to collaborate with sticky notes, emojis and drawing tools.

On October 22, 2019, Figma launched Figma Community, allowing designers to publish their work for others to view and adapt. It saw its first public release on September 27, 2016.

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įigma started offering a free invite-only preview program on December 3, 2015.

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Wallace joined Field in California after completing his degree in computer science, and the two began working on the company full time. įield was named a Thiel Fellow in 2012, earning him $100,000 in exchange for taking a leave of absence from college. The company's early scope was described in a 2012 article by The Brown Daily Herald vaguely as "a technology startup that will allow users to creatively express themselves online." That article reported that the company's first ideas revolved around 3D content generation, and subsequent ideas focused on photo editing and object segmentation.

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The original objective behind Figma was to enable "anyone be creative by creating free, simple, creative tools in a browser." Field and Wallace experimented with different ideas, including software for drones and a meme generator, before settling on web-based graphics editor software. Wallace studied graphics and was a Teacher Assistant for the Computer Science Department, while Field chaired the CS Departmental Undergraduate Group. Dylan Field and Evan Wallace began working on Figma in 2012 while studying computer science at Brown University.