Company · Software
San Francisco
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Figma raised.
The transaction that ended Figma's run as a startup, per published coverage. It closes the funding history too, where it is the ladder's last rung.
| Bought by | Kind | Announced | Price | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | IPO | Jul 2025 | - | stratechery.com, Crunchbase News (Tue 6 Jan 2026), Crunchbase News (Tue 2 Sep 2025), Tech Funding News - Australia |
| Adobe | Acquisition | 15 Sep 2022 | US$20b ($30.8b) | frederick.ai, Startup Daily, Crunchbase News |
Companies Figma acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Dylan Field | Co-founder and CEO | startupik.com, stratechery.com, Crunchbase News, figma.com, frederick.ai, Startup Daily (Mon 18 Oct 2021), Startup Daily (Tue 12 Oct 2021) |
| Evan Wallace | Co-founder and CTO | startupik.com, frederick.ai |
Stories naming Figma. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Blackbird and Airtree mark Canva's worth down sharply, the employee share price falls too, and commentators question whether a 2027 sharemarket float remains realistic amid sliding confidence in AI-era software.
Startupik profile of Dylan Field tracing Figma's path from browser-based experiment to mainstream design-collaboration tool, its venture funding history, bottom-up adoption, and the Adobe acquisition that collapsed.
Crunchbase's 2026 forecast lists fifteen late-stage companies it deems probable or very likely IPO candidates, profiling each with past raises, valuations and secondary sales; Australia's Canva makes the list.
Atlassian has agreed to buy The Browser Company, maker of browsers Dia and Arc, for roughly $610 million, aiming to build an AI browser for workplace use.
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Crunchbase News profiles 14 venture-backed companies its predictive models flag as likely IPO candidates, from Stripe to Sierra Space, recapping their funding histories, valuations and financial milestones.
Opinion column argues Canva's fresh $65 billion valuation from a recent raise looks cheap against Figma's listing multiples, with looming competition from Microsoft, Adobe and Google shaping the design software market.
Canva launched an employee share sale valuing the design software firm at $42 billion, led by Fidelity with JPMorgan's asset arm joining, ahead of a planned IPO; US rival Figma listed last month.
Galileo Ventures announces a $240,000 seed backing for Gumnut, a developer-tools startup adding real-time collaboration and AI agents to SaaS forms, and sets out its investment thesis.
Figma's blog recaps seven moments from CEO Dylan Field's How I Built This interview, covering his childhood acting, Thiel Fellowship, early struggles, mentorship from John Lilly, and the origins of FigJam.
Presentation startup Chronicle, based in Sydney and San Francisco, announced a $7.5 million seed round led by Accel and Square Peg, with angels from several major tech companies participating.
Ignition Lane's weekly tech roundup covering fresh Australian startup raises, new venture funds and closes, a wave of acquisitions, delistings and a liquidation, executive moves, and Canva's product launch.
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Roundup of design-sector startup funding covering recent raises by Picsart, LottieFiles, Gravity Sketch and Superside, plus Canva's standing, alongside Adobe's agreed multibillion-dollar purchase of Figma.
Weekly roundup reporting numerous Australian and New Zealand startup raises, Icehouse Ventures securing fund capital, GitLab's IPO, two acquisitions, Clover's closure, and Openpay's debt facility.
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Vehicle parts data startup Partly, based in New Zealand, has closed a pre-Series A round led by Blackbird Ventures, with angel backers including Peter Beck, Dylan Field and Akshay Kothari, valuing it highly.