Penpot is an open-source design and collaboration platform built to let designers and developers work together in real time, usable as cloud SaaS or self-hosted. The product emphasizes developer-friendly workflows and recently launched features such as a Flex Layout suite, larger collaborative memory caches up to 16 GB, improved code inspection, and tools for occasional contributors. The project has seen rapid user growth—250,000 users and 20,000 GitHub stars—with 20,000 teams using the product, including groups at Mozilla, Accenture, ByteDance, IBM, Google, and Microsoft. Penpot remains free to use and has not yet introduced paid features or services; the company says monetization will come later. The team is building both cloud and self-hosted/local capabilities to drive adoption and plugin architecture that could inform future enterprise offerings. Runa Capital’s ROSS Index notes Penpot is among the fastest-growing open source projects at the moment. Penpot is an open-source design collaboration platform that brings designers and developers together using scalable vector graphics and self-hosting capabilities. The product emphasizes hackability and customization for developer-centric workflows, aiming to eliminate the traditional "handoff" between design and engineering. Launched about a year ago and based in Madrid, Penpot has seen tens of thousands of downloads and 15,000 stars on GitHub. Its active user base includes roughly 10,000 companies such as Google, Microsoft, Red Hat, Tencent, ByteDance and Mozilla. After Adobe’s announcement to acquire Figma, Penpot’s sign-ups spiked from ~40% monthly growth to 5,600%, and on-premise deployments grew 400%. The platform is free to use and has not yet built a significant revenue model; the new funding is intended to capitalize on accelerated adoption.

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$20M

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Feb 2023