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Figma

Figma builds a collaborative interface design platform for teams, spanning design, prototyping, developer handoff, AI features and whiteboarding. Founded in 2012; went public in 2025.

Figma makes a collaborative interface design platform used by product teams to design and build software together, covering the workflow from brainstorming through prototyping to final product. Founded in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace, the company employs 1,001-5,000 people and went public in 2025. Its platform spans browser-based and desktop design tools, real-time collaboration, developer handoff tooling and AI-powered design features - a technical surface area relevant to engineers working at the intersection of product, web technology and developer audiences.

The product suite comprises Figma Design, a real-time collaborative design tool used by more than 4 million people who have created over 100 million files; Dev Mode, which streamlines handoff between designers and developers; Figma Make, AI-powered features for product development; and FigJam, a whiteboarding product for brainstorming. Customers range from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies, including Airbnb, Uber, GitHub, Microsoft, Netflix and The New York Times.

The company describes its mission as making design accessible to all, with a culture oriented around cross-functional work between designers and developers and on serving as a single source of truth across organisations. Industry verticals among its users include product design, software development, media and publishing, ride-hailing, and travel and hospitality.

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