Ndea vs Figma
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Post-LLM AGI research company co-founded by Keras creator François Chollet and Zapier co-founder Mike Knoop; YC W26 with $43M raised; pursuing program synthesis as path to AGI beyond transformer scaling.
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Ndea is an artificial general intelligence research company founded by François Chollet, creator of Keras and the ARC-AGI benchmark, and Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier. The company emerged from Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch with $43 million in funding and a mission to develop the next generation of AI beyond large language models.
Dominant browser-based collaborative UI design platform at ~$600M ARR and $12.5B valuation; Adobe's $20B acquisition blocked by regulators in 2023, Figma remains independent competing with Sketch and Adobe.
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Figma is a San Francisco-based collaborative web-based product design platform that has become the dominant tool for UI/UX designers and product teams — enabling real-time multi-user collaboration on interface design, prototyping, and design system management directly in the browser without installing desktop software. Founded in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace and backed by Sequoia, Greylock, and Andreessen Horowitz with over $330 million raised, Figma generated approximately $600 million in ARR in 2023, serving 4 million+ designers and product teams at companies including Microsoft, Airbnb, Twitter, and Uber. Adobe announced a $20 billion acquisition offer in 2022, which was blocked by regulators in 2023 — Figma remains independent.
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