![]() ![]() In fact, Sketch is already planning some big upgrades that will be available this summer, as Sá and Omvlee told us yesterday from their respective offices in Portugal and The Netherlands. In other words, like InVision and Figma (and Adobe and Autodesk), Sketch is going after the enterprise now, too. The idea is for it to become a tool that teams big and small can gather around. Though its design tools were formerly available in the Mac App Store - Apple once gave it a design award and it routinely topped the Mac App Store charts - Sketch parted ways with the company back in 2015, including owing to Apple’s guidelines about what a Mac app can and can’t do, and the time Apple takes to approve app updates.īenchmark - which isn’t sharing Sketch’s post-money valuation or how much of the company that $20 million is buying the venture firm - also sees a future wherein Sketch moves beyond its roots as a prototyping tool for both highly experienced and novice designers to build out their experience without the help of coders. has been profitable from the outset, and that one million people have already paid $99 for a perpetual license (with one year of free updates).Īlso impressive: those sales are entirely organic, and they are directly from Sketch’s site. It helps that Sketch - which has a completely distributed workforce, with designers and other employees based around Europe and the U.S. We were like, ‘What do you guys want to do? Let’s do it.’ ” There’s so much potential of what this could be that things moved fast. “We’d definitely known of Sketch and once we got a look at the company, we were blown away by it. Benchmark jumped at the chance to back Sketch founders Emanuel Sá and Pieter Omvlee when they reached out to the firm, says Chetan Puttagunta, the newest general partner at Benchmark. Still, if the venture firm Benchmark has its way, Sketch - a seven-year-old, 42-person, Europe-based company - is going to win this race. More recently, Figma, another design player, sealed up $40 million in Series C funding in a round that brings its total funding to $82.9 million and its valuation to $440 million. Just three months ago, the design collaboration startup raised $115 million in Series F funding at a $1.9 billion valuation. Indeed, with sales and marketing so thoroughly optimized at this point - and companies wondering how else to trounce the competition - there’s now a race afoot for numerous startups looking to become the Salesforce of design. You’ve probably noticed: Design has become central for many businesses that might have once considered it an afterthought. ![]()
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