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Figma

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101 articles accelerating

Figma has appeared in 101 articles since 2015-12. Coverage peaked in 2025Q3 with 15 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Adobe, Dylan Field, IPO, LinkedIn.

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101
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Velocity
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Acceleration
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25
publications
The Moats That Moved
The same week a widely shared analysis argued LLMs are "dismantling the moats that made vertical SaaS defensible," Figma reported 40% revenue growth and partner...

Coverage Timeline

2025-03-08
New York Times

Sources: Figma has met with banks in recent weeks to discuss an IPO that could come as soon as 2025; EU and US regulators stymied its $20B sale to Adobe in 2023

The may not get $20B in the IPO but they've avoided the inevitable enshitification an Adobe acquisition would have caused.

2024-05-17
The Information 3 related

Figma is letting staff and early investors sell up to $900M of shares in a tender at a $12.5B valuation, down ~38% from Adobe's $20B acquisition proposal

2023-12-19
Reuters 41 related

Adobe and Figma end their $20B merger, announced in September 2022, over “no clear path” to EU and UK antitrust approval; Adobe owes Figma a $1B termination fee

Adobe (ADBE.O) on Monday shelved its $20 billion cash-and-stock deal for cloud-based designer platform Figma …

2023-12-18
Reuters 19 related

Adobe and Figma terminate their $20B merger, announced in September 2022, after seeing “no clear path” to UK and EU regulatory approval; Adobe will pay $1B

Adobe (ADBE.O) on Monday shelved its $20 billion cash-and-stock deal for cloud-based designer platform Figma, pointing to …

2023-11-30
Bloomberg 3 related

Sources: Adobe's proposal to address EU and UK regulator concerns for its $20B Figma deal may include not tying Figma into Creative Cloud and divesting Adobe XD

Bloomberg :

2023-10-14
Bloomberg

After Adobe announced its $20B Figma acquisition in September 2022, the deal has stalled due to regulatory challenges and Adobe has shifted its attention to AI

Brody Ford / Bloomberg : X: @sarthakgh , @auchenberg , and @sperand_io X: Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : “Adobe's focus at its annual conference...was on new generative artificial intelligence feature...

2023-06-20
Financial Times 6 related

Sources: EU antitrust regulators plan to open a detailed “phase 2” investigation into Adobe's Figma acquisition later in 2023, which may derail the $20B deal

Transaction faces lengthy antitrust probe in Brussels as global watchdogs signal concern over market consolidation

2023-01-12
Bloomberg 2 related

A filing details Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition: multiple attempts in 2020 and 2021 before co-founder Dylan Field accepted, interest from Microsoft, and more

Adobe Inc. tried to acquire design firm Figma Inc. for years before co-founder Dylan Field and the startup finally accepted …

2022-09-21
Forbes

Adobe's Figma retention package may be the biggest since Facebook bought WhatsApp in 2014, exceeding deal packages from Auth0, LinkedIn, Mobileye, and Slack

a key player in the Figma deal, now on the Adobe side. Salesforce couldn't hold on to Tableau's Adam Selipsky, back as CEO at AWS. https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Alex Konrad / @ale...

2022-09-19
Protocol 6 related

Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition will likely face antitrust scrutiny over whether the deal would snuff out competition or harm consumers by taking away choices

Hello, and welcome to Pipeline.  I'm Biz Carson, and I'm devastated after I lost my 149-day Wordle streak to “parer” yesterday.

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

Figma has appeared in 101 Techmeme articles since December 2015. The biggest stories include OpenAI announces apps that work inside ChatGPT, piloting Booking.com, Canva, Coursera,... and Adobe and Figma end their $20B merger, announced in September 2022, over “no clear path”.... Frequently covered alongside Adobe, Dylan Field, Slack, Claude, and FIG. Coverage has shifted toward developer themes and away from enterprise, funding.

Key Moments

2024Q2enterprise -56pts; safety -11pts; developer +39pts
2024Q3enterprise +25pts; developer -50pts; research +25pts
2025Q1enterprise -25pts; consumer -50pts; research -25pts

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