Figma doubles down on India with a new Bengaluru office and a sharper focus on developers, aiming to turn one of its largest user communities into a launchpad for its next phase of growth. Long beloved by designers for its browser-based, real-time collaboration, the company now wants to make Figma just as indispensable to engineers building production-ready products.
Founded in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace, Figma upended the design world by moving professional-grade tools to the browser and making collaboration seamless. That early bet paid off with UX and product teams; now the company is working to replicate that success with developers, and India is central to that plan.
India is home to one of the largest developer communities on the planet. While about 33% of Figma’s global users are already developers, many still view the platform mainly as a design tool rather than an end-to-end environment for building real products. Abhishek Mathur, VP of Engineering at Figma, said the company wants to change that perception. In his words, India has a vast population of developers who may not yet see Figma as their tool, and the company wants to help them go beyond just writing code by bringing design and development closer together.
As part of this push, Figma has opened a new office in Bengaluru to serve the local community more directly. Until now, India was supported remotely from Singapore. The Bengaluru hub joins a growing international footprint that includes Tokyo, Singapore, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, and São Paulo.
India already ranks as Figma’s second-largest user base after the U.S., and the company says 85% of its overall usage is international. As of the third quarter of 2025, Figma reported serving users in 85% of India’s 28 official states. More than 40% of the top 100 companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange are customers. Globally, Figma counts 13 million weekly active users, and its India community, Friends of Figma, has grown to more than 25,000 members.
To make Figma more developer-forward, the company has rolled out new capabilities that connect design and engineering workflows. In 2023, it introduced dev mode to help developers translate designs into code faster. In May, it launched a suite of AI-powered features designed to extend the platform beyond traditional design teams. One standout, Figma Make, can generate working web apps from natural-language prompts and allows teams to collaborate on both design and code in a single workspace. India has emerged as the largest market for Figma Make, with users generating more than 800,000 prototypes so far.
Mathur noted that while usage patterns in India mirror global trends, the scale of operations in the country is especially demanding, stretching from early imagination to final production. That scale is helping shape Figma’s roadmap. Feedback from Indian users directly led to improved code-export options that output higher-quality, more production-ready code—exactly what developers need to ship faster.
The new Bengaluru office will initially strengthen sales and marketing, with plans to deepen community programs and customer engagement. Figma’s Indian customer list includes consumer startups and large enterprises such as:
– CRED
– Groww
– Fynd
– Swiggy
– Zomato
– Infosys
– TCS
– Airtel
– CARS24
– Myntra
International markets contributed about half of Figma’s revenue in 2024, and the company describes India as an increasingly important market. Expect more community events, deeper partnerships, and continued local product feedback loops as Figma works to unite design and development—and help Indian teams move from idea to app faster than ever.
