Figma, Inc.
Figma, Inc. builds a cloud-based, AI-powered platform for designing, prototyping, and shipping digital products and experiences. Its tools let designers, developers, product managers, marketers, writers, and other collaborators work together in one browser-based workspace from idea through implementation.
Fiscal year 2025 · change from previous year
Development 2023–2025
Business
Share of revenueBrowser-based tools for UI/UX design, prototyping, and shared product workflows.
Whiteboarding and cross-functional planning tools used before and during product creation.
Features that connect design files to engineering implementation and product delivery.
Newer products for slides, websites, and branded content creation.
Admin, permissioning, and compliance features for larger and more regulated customers.
Customers
Figma sells subscriptions to individuals, freelancers, small teams, and large enterprise product organizations that need a shared system for designing and building digital products. Its user base spans designers and non-designers, including developers, PMs, researchers, marketers, writers, and security-conscious organizations such as government and regulated industries. The company uses both self-serve and direct sales motions, with paid seats and plan upgrades driving expansion inside customer accounts.
Buy Starter or low-tier paid seats to create personal projects and learn the platform.
Buy Professional seats for collaborative design libraries, unlimited files, and team workflows.
Buy Organization plans and add-ons for centralized admin, security, and multi-team collaboration.
Buy compliant, secure deployments and governance features to meet procurement and policy needs.
PMs, developers, researchers, marketers, and writers use the platform to collaborate on product delivery.
Strategy
Figma is expanding from a design tool into a broader system of record for product creation, adding products that cover ideation, handoff, publishing, and governance. The company is also investing in AI, enterprise security, and integrations so it can sit inside existing workflows and deepen retention across teams.
More products increase seat usage, retention, and the chance to become the system of record.
AI can lower friction for non-designers and improve speed across the product lifecycle.
Enterprise and public-sector accounts support higher seat counts and longer retention.
Integrations and community reduce switching risk and expand usage into daily workflows.
Geography
Q1/2026Figma serves customers across the United States and internationally, with a community footprint that includes Friends of Figma chapters from Lagos to Los Angeles. The reports do not provide a country revenue split, but they show broad usage across industries and geographies and note sales to U.S. federal, state, local, and foreign governmental entities. Geography matters mainly through compliance, localization, and data-security requirements, especially for regulated and public-sector customers.
Share of the revenue the company reports by geography.
Risks
Figma faces execution risk from rapid growth, product expansion, and the challenge of scaling a collaborative platform across many user types. It also has meaningful exposure to cybersecurity, privacy, and government-regulatory requirements because the platform stores sensitive customer data and serves regulated and public-sector users. Competition is intense and the company must keep innovating in AI, workflow integration, and enterprise controls to defend adoption and pricing power.
- Security and privacy breachesImpact: CriticalLikelihood: Medium
The platform hosts and transmits proprietary and sensitive customer data, so any breach could cause legal and reputational damage.
Exposure - Rapid growth and scaling complexityImpact: HighLikelihood: Medium
The company has grown quickly, which can strain operations, product quality, and go-to-market execution.
Exposure - Competitive pressureImpact: HighLikelihood: Medium
The market for design and collaboration software is crowded and fast-moving, including AI-enabled alternatives.
Exposure - Government and regulated-industry complianceImpact: HighLikelihood: Low
Sales to public-sector and regulated customers require certifications and ongoing compliance, which can be expensive and time-consuming.
Exposure: FedRAMP and other security requirements
- AI and intellectual property uncertaintyImpact: MediumLikelihood: Medium
The company is building AI features in an area where copyright and ownership rules are still evolving.
Exposure: Product development and legal exposure
Accounting
Judgemental itemsRevenue is recognized ratably over the contract term, while customers are typically invoiced in advance.
Impact: Creates deferred revenue and timing differences between cash and reported sales
Additional seats added during a quarter are invoiced at quarter-end for some customers.
Impact: Can cause quarterly revenue and billings to move differently
IPO- and RSU-related compensation can be large and volatile.
Impact: Affects operating margin and comparability across periods
Development costs for internal-use software are capitalized and amortized over time.
Impact: Shifts expense recognition between periods
Acquisitions can create amortization expense and valuation judgments.
Impact: Affects operating expenses and future impairment risk
Similar listed companies
Publicly listed companies with a comparable business focus.
Workiva Inc
WK · Services-Prepackaged Software
Workiva builds a cloud-based SaaS platform that connects data, workflows, and reporting across finance, sustainability, risk, and audit functions.
FIGX Capital Acquisition Corp.
FIGXU · Blank Checks
IMA Tech
IMAA · Services-Prepackaged Software
IMA Tech is a U.S.-based early-stage software services company focused on developing and operating digital avatar technology.
Pegasystems Inc
PEGA · Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation
FIGS, Inc.
FIGS · Apparel & Other Finishd Prods of Fabrics & Similar Matl
DocuSign, Inc
DOCU · Services-Prepackaged Software
Docusign builds software that digitizes how agreements are created, signed, managed, and analyzed.
Last updated: 24/09/2026