--- title: Adobe Will Acquire Figma for $20 Billion | daily.dev description: Art by Vijay Verma Adobe has announced it will acquire the collaborative design platform Figma for approximately $20 billion. Dylan Field and Evan Wallace... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/adobe-will-acquire-figma-for-20-billion-e6gmc-lr1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Adobe Will Acquire Figma for $20 Billion | daily.dev og:description: Art by Vijay Verma Adobe has announced it will acquire the collaborative design platform Figma for approximately $20 billion. Dylan Field and Evan Wallace... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/adobe-will-acquire-figma-for-20-billion-e6gmc-lr1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/e6GMc_lR1.png og:image:alt: Adobe Will Acquire Figma for $20 Billion og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Adobe Will Acquire Figma for $20 Billion **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 1 min read · 200 upvotes · 51 comments ## Summary Art by Vijay Verma Adobe has announced it will acquire the collaborative design platform Figma for approximately $20 billion. Dylan Field and Evan Wallace began working on Figma in 2012, now the app is popular among designers and developers. The transaction is expected to close in 2023. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@thecoverliker** · 45 upvotes > Be prepared for... "Start trial" **@tvdheijden** · 30 upvotes > I am afraid of what will happen to figma **@chiroro\_jr** · 17 upvotes > This is the worst news I've heard in a while. Prepare to pay big bucks for figma. **@husseinkizz** · 8 upvotes > Some one should start working on an open source alternative already, for then figma will be no more free! **@matteosacchetto** · 6 upvotes > I hope they will not kill this service with recurrent payments/some other crap... ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#adobe](https://daily.dev/tags/adobe), [#figma](https://daily.dev/tags/figma) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/adobe-will-acquire-figma-for-20-billion-e6gmc-lr1) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Adobe Will Acquire Figma for $20 Billion","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/adobe-will-acquire-figma-for-20-billion-e6gmc-lr1","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/adobe-will-acquire-figma-for-20-billion-e6gmc-lr1"},"datePublished":"2022-09-15T13:02:43.705Z","dateModified":"2022-09-15T13:02:43.705Z","description":"Art by Vijay Verma Adobe has announced it will acquire the collaborative design platform Figma for approximately $20 billion. 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