Investing in Figma: The Decade of Design

I’ve always been interested in investing in companies and founders who take an old, staid technology category and turn it on its head, often reinventing an entirely new category (and inventing new behaviors) in the process. These technology tools bring …

Pleased to announce our investment in Figma, the platform for building and collaborating on products that start with design and puts design at the center.

Figma empowers people to be a part of the design process and democratizes design, while also making the work of elite designers more valuable. I believe it does for design and designers what GitHub did for code and developers — not only by making design more accessible, but by nurturing an open design community as well, where people can find the tools they need instead of...

I’ve always been interested in investing in companies and founders who take an old, staid technology category and turn it on its head, often reinventing an entirely new category (and inventing new behaviors) in the process. These technology tools bring …

Pleased to announce our investment in Figma, the platform for building and collaborating on products that start with design and puts design at the center.

Figma empowers people to be a part of the design process and democratizes design, while also making the work of elite designers more valuable. I believe it does for design and designers what GitHub did for code and developers — not only by making design more accessible, but by nurturing an open design community as well, where people can find the tools they need instead of reinventing the wheel from scratch every time. There have been various attempts in the past (from Dribbble to Creative Market) of bringing designers and their portfolios together into a community; however...