“A spokesperson told TechCrunch that this deal was ​“opportunistic,” and that the company was in a strong cash position pre-financing. The new funding expands Figma’s runway during these uncertain times, with coronavirus halting a lot of enterprise purchasing and ultimately slowing growth of some rising enterprise players. “ Also interesting: ​“Field also added that he has not met other investors in this round in person, and the vast majority of the deal was done over Zoom.”

Forbes: ​“But Figma also plans to use the money to consider acquisitions and ​“acquihires,” in which a company will purchase a startup not for its intellectual property, but for its talent, as part of Figma’s next phase of expansion.”

Andreessen Horowitz: ​“Figma puts all the pieces together, and into more than the sum of those parts. What used to take four or five discrete tools can now be done end-to-end in Figma, the single source of ​“truth” for product design and design systems. […] Their community has taken off with a product-led virality that I haven’t seen since GitHub — extending beyond product designers and into product managers, marketers, and engineers.”

Dylan Field: ​“Today, I’m excited to share that Figma has raised a $50M Series D round of funding, led by Peter Levine and Marc Andreessen at a16z.”

Great thread from Design Manager at Figma on how one of its most unique features came to life, from the initial pitch to design challenges and decisions.

“Figma is in talks to raise a new funding round from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz at a valuation of $2 billion, multiple sources with knowledge of the matter tell Forbes. The round, which is still being finalized, is expected to raise at least $50 million, three sources say.”

After starting working remotely during the pandemic, Figma’s top priority has been finding ways to stay connected while far apart. This article shows how they are making a remote team still feel real.

Index Ventures asked experienced leaders from their portfolio companies, including Figma and Slack, to share their expertise and advice on working from home.

Yuhki Yamashita, VP of Product at Figma, gives an inside look at how they designed the fastest way to keep an entire company up-to-date on the roadmap using a Coda doc.

Thread by Director of Product at Figma on how their team operates.

The Enterprise Tech 30 is an exclusive list of the most promising private companies in enterprise tech, as determined by the number of votes from the prominent venture capitalists.

Great thread and perspective from one of Figma employees.

Great Ask-Me-Anything at Designer News with Noah Levin, Design Director at Figma. He answers questions about sourcing new design hires, interview process at Figma, internal and external transparency, latest product announcements, and more.

It’s a marketing video for Notion, but it provides a cool glimpse at Figma’s office and the way they organize their internal documentation. My company just moved to Notion as well, and so far it’s been great!

In case you experienced an outage last week, this is a technical roundup of what happened. The most important part for designers: ​“We’re kicking off an initiative to ensure you can continue to work on your already open files safely after going offline even if you close your browser before coming back online.”

Figma team shares how they’ve built a unified design system for their marketing site, then implemented it in Contentful CMS.

Figma COO Amanda Kleha talks about different ways of connecting with and serving the community — Config user conference, meetups, ways to follow the company, and a beta of Figma Community.

An old comment from Figma founder Dylan Field where he shares what they used to design the user interface of the app.

Nice observation. Figma’s team has great attention to detail.