Figma is expanding its presence in India by establishing a local office and hiring Indian talent. This move aims to deepen ties with one of its largest user communities. The company is also making a broader push to win over developers alongside the designers who already rely on the platform.
Founded in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace, Figma broke through by offering a browser-based interface when most designers were still using desktop software. The approach was initially met with skepticism, but the platform eventually became a go-to collaboration tool for UX and product teams. Now, the company is looking to replicate that trajectory with developers and sees India as a key market to accelerate that evolution.
India has one of the world’s largest developer communities, an advantage already recognized by other tech giants. Roughly forty percent of Figma’s users globally are developers, and the company has been rolling out features aimed at bridging design and engineering workflows. However, Figma still faces a perception challenge, as many Indian developers continue to see it primarily as a design tool rather than a platform for end-to-end product creation.
Abhishek Mathur, VP of Engineering at Figma, stated that India has a large population of developers who might not currently think of Figma as their tool, and that is what the company wants to change. He explained that a lot of this work is being done by the community, but Figma wants to be part of that activity and share its story of enabling developers to be more than just writing code.
Figma has opened a new office in Bengaluru, India, as part of its continuing expansion outside the United States. The San Francisco-headquartered company already has offices in Tokyo, Singapore, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, and São Paulo. Until now, Figma had been supporting users in India remotely through its Singapore team. The company now recognizes the value of establishing a local presence as its user base and community activity in the country have continued to expand.
Mathur noted that India has always been a global hub of innovation and that international markets are a big part of Figma’s usage. As much as eighty-five percent of Figma’s overall usage is international, and India is its second-largest user base after the United States. The company said it was serving users in eighty-five percent of India’s twenty-eight official states as of the third quarter of 2025. As of September, more than forty percent of the top one hundred companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange were Figma customers.
Figma counts thirteen million weekly active users worldwide. The company did not share specific user numbers for India, though Mathur described the country as a very large portion of its base. Its India community alone includes more than twenty-five thousand members.
In May, Figma introduced a new range of AI-powered features designed to extend its software’s value beyond design teams. This positions it in competition not just with Adobe and Canva, but also with AI coding platforms. One of those features, Figma Make, allows users to generate working web applications from natural-language prompts and collaborate on both design and code within the same workspace. Mathur said India has been the largest market for Figma Make, with users in the country generating over eight hundred thousand prototypes so far.
Figma also sees increased adoption among developers in India, particularly for its dev mode, which debuted in 2023 to help developers quickly translate designs into code. Mathur said the first spectrum of imagination to production is where they see differences between India and the rest of the globe. He noted that the usage patterns are similar, but the scale of operations in some areas is very challenging.
Figma’s Bengaluru office will initially focus on strengthening the company’s sales and marketing operations in the country. Its users in India include consumer-facing startups such as CRED, Groww, Fynd, Swiggy, and Zomato, as well as IT services giants including Infosys and TCS and consumer companies such as Airtel, CARS24, and Myntra.
In 2024, Figma generated about half of its revenue from markets outside the United States. Mathur described India as an important market for the company, though he did not disclose its specific contribution to global revenue.
India’s user base is already influencing Figma’s product development. For instance, feedback from its community in India led the company to introduce improved code-export options that produce higher-quality code. This was a direct response to requests from Indian users seeking better output. Mathur said the company wants to continue doing events and working with its customers, from small to large, and as time progresses, they might add other possibilities as well.