Today, Notion is used by tens of thousands of high-growth contenders, including Figma, Substack, Modern Health, Mixpanel, Buffer, and Headspace. Whether it's remaining consistent in processes, hiring and onboarding, documenting knowledge, or growing their sales motion, successful companies need to take all employees along for the ride." "Ultimately we're seeing that startup growth didn't slow down during the pandemic - it accelerated, and these companies are investing in organization and their people. From building and sharing knowledge to growing the team to managing workflows, these companies need to remain connected at scale," says Notion's Head of Customer Experience Kate Taylor, whose team spearheaded the new program. "Startups crave focus - but there's a ton of noise to contend with.
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Often, they are blended into a full operating system that provides a single, quickly navigable home for daily work. The customizable tools Notion provides - combining notes, shared docs, wikis, and project management - have become a standard in the industry. Over 50% of startups in Y Combinator's recent batch have a Notion workspace.Ģ8% of startups on Crunchbase that have raised $1M+ are using Notion globally. Notion decided to launch these new initiatives after observing unprecedented growth in the startup market over the last year, and some key trends:Ĥx growth in the number of startup companies using the product between September 2020 and September 2021 - following on record growth during the migration to remote work earlier in 2020.ĩ0% of Forbes' Cloud 100 companies have a Notion team workspace. Those who are interested can visit AWS' Activate program and Stripe Atlas to learn more about this offer and other resources they provide. (AWS) and Stripe, two startup ecosystem heavyweights that will extend Notion's reach and a $1000 discount to hundreds of thousands of new users through their startup portals. As part of this, the company is offering a credit of at least $500 for all startups to try its product for free, regardless of size or funding status.Īt the same time, Notion kicked off partnerships with Amazon Web Services, Inc.
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Figma has raised a total of $82.9 million in venture capital to date, according to Crunchbase.SAN FRANCISCO-( BUSINESS WIRE)-Notion, the collaboration software company, announced today that it's launching a new startup program to expand access to essential work tools that early companies can tailor to their own needs. The latest round also included participation from existing investors Index Ventures, Greylock, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia and Founders Fund. “Given the context of COVID-19, we’re thankful for the opportunity to accelerate our work here at Figma,” Field said. The company also plans on using funds from the latest round to create and launch digital collaborative meeting spaces for visual projects, as well as hiring additional talent, according to an interview with Forbes. In addition to interface design, customers are using Figma for tasks like visual white boarding, diagramming and slide creation,” Dylan Field, the company’s CEO and co-founder, said in a statement. “As the lines between home and work have blurred over the past few months, we’ve seen more Figma engagement than ever before. our bet paid off, and these days it’s obvious that multiplayer is the way all productivity tools on the web should work, not just design,” Wallace said.įigma will use its additional capital to further streamline its core design and prototyping platform at a moment when its tool is in high demand. “Ultimately, we had to do it because it just felt wrong not to offer multiplayer as a tool on the web. Since then, Figma’s software has gone on to be used by many of its most established tech industry peers including Airbnb, Slack, Twitter and Uber. No one was clamoring for a multiplayer design tool, if anything, people hated the idea,” Figma CTO Evan Wallace said in a news release. “At the time, we weren’t sure building this feature was the right product decision.
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San Francisco-based design software company, Figma, just announced the closure of a $50 million Series D funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, at a total valuation of $2 billion.įigma launched in 2016 as a tool to help software designers work together in the same web browser simultaneously.
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