Vector graphics
Computer graphics images defined by points
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| April 2025 | Figma filed for an initial public offering (IPO). |
| June 2024 | Figma launches Figma Slides (Flides) in beta, a collaborative presentation program. |
| December 18 2023 | Figma and Adobe mutually agree to abandon their merger due to regulatory challenges, with Adobe paying a $1 billion reverse breakup fee. |
| October 2023 |
Thinkfree Office
Hancom split its online office business unit as 'Thinkfree Inc.'.
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| June 2023 | Figma launches Dev Mode to help developers translate designs into code faster. |
| February 2023 | The European Commission announces it will review the Adobe-Figma acquisition under EU merger laws. |
| 2022 | Figma faced criticism for continuing operations in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, suspending new sales and marketing activities while maintaining existing services in the country. |
| November 2 2022 | The US Department of Justice begins an investigation into the proposed Adobe-Figma merger. |
| September 15 2022 | Adobe announces its intention to acquire Figma for approximately $20 billion, with Dylan Field remaining as CEO. |
| June 2022 | Google for Education partners with Figma to bring its design and prototyping platform and FigJam to education Chromebooks. |
| June 2021 | Figma raised $200 million in a Series E funding round, with Durable Capital Partners as the lead investor. |
| May 2021 | Figma was valued at $10 billion by the end of the month. |
| April 21 2021 | Figma launches FigJam, a digital whiteboarding capability that allows collaborative work using sticky notes, emojis, and drawing tools. |
| November 2020 |
PDF/X
ISO 15930-9 published, defining PDF/X-6 standard based on PDF 2.0, with PDF/X-6p and PDF/X-6n extensions for partial exchange of printing data
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| April 2020 | Figma raised $50 million in a Series D funding round, with Andreessen Horowitz as the lead investor. The company was also valued at more than $2 billion. |
| October 22 2019 | Figma launches Figma Community, enabling designers to publish and share their work for others to view and adapt. |
| February 2019 | Figma raised $40 million in Series C funding, with Sequoia Capital as the lead investor. |
| June 2018 |
Thinkfree Office
Formed a partnership with Amazon Web Services to integrate Thinkfree Office into WorkDocs, an in-house office suite.
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| February 2018 | Figma raised $25 million in a Series B funding round, with Kleiner Perkins as the lead investor. |
| September 27 2016 | Figma has its first public release. |
| July 2016 |
Xara Designer Pro+
First update for Xara Designer Pro X released in July.
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| May 2016 |
Xara Designer Pro+
Changed to an annual update service model. First update for Xara Photo & Graphic Designer released in May.
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| December 2015 | Figma secured $14 million in Series A funding, with Greylock as the lead investor. |
| December 3 2015 | Figma launches a free invite-only preview program. |
| July 2015 |
Xara Designer Pro+
Xara Designer Pro X11 released in July.
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| June 29 2015 |
Xara Designer Pro+
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11 released on 29 June.
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| July 23 2014 |
Xara Designer Pro+
Xara Designer Pro X10 released on 23 July.
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| July 16 2014 |
Xara Designer Pro+
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 10 released on 16 July.
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| July 2013 |
Xara Designer Pro+
Xara Designer Pro X9 released in July, combining photo, graphics, page layout, and web design.
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| June 2013 | Figma raised $3.8 million in seed funding, with Index Ventures and Terrence Rohan as lead investors. |
| May 2013 |
Xara Designer Pro+
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 9 released in May.
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| 2012 | Dylan Field and Evan Wallace begin working on Figma while studying computer science at Brown University, initially exploring various software ideas including drone software and a meme generator. |
| 2012 | Dylan Field is named a Thiel Fellow, receiving $234,460 and taking a leave of absence from college to work on Figma. |
| May 2012 |
Xara Designer Pro+
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 2013 and Xara Designer Pro X (v8) released in May.
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| 2011 |
PDF/X
ISO 15930-5 (PDF/X-2) standard was withdrawn
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| May 2011 |
Xara Designer Pro+
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 7 and Xara Designer Pro 7 released in May, with 'magic' photo erase and user interface improvements.
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| 2010 |
PDF/X
Minor corrections and improvements made to ISO 15930-7 and ISO 15930-8 standards, without changing file identifications
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| June 2010 |
Xara Designer Pro+
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6 and Xara Designer Pro 6 released in June, with Xtreme being renamed Photo & Graphic Designer.
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| May 2010 |
Xara Xtreme LX
The community replaced the proprietary CDraw library with the open-source Cairo library.
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This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Embroidermodder, Xara Designer Pro+, Xara Xtreme LX, Thinkfree Office, Figma & PDF/X, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.