Penpot
Design & Prototyping Tools
2open roles
$8Mlatest round · Venture round · Sep 2022 · 4 yr ago
1backers · Decibel
10+team · employees, estimated range
Overview
Penpot is the open-source design platform for teams that build digital products at scale. Built on open standards and available as web-based or self-hosted, it helps organizations connect design systems, code, and AI workflows in one interoperable design infrastructure.
Key facts
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 2 open roles at Penpot. It was founded in 2021. The latest round is Venture - Series Unknown of $8M, announced in 2022.
- Open roles
- 2Job postings Alion tracks, as of Nov 13, 2026
- Founded
- 2021Alion company profile, updated Nov 12, 2026
- Employees
- 10+Alion company profile, an estimated range
- Total raised
- $8MSum of 1 equity round Alion knows
- Latest round
- Venture - Series Unknown · $8M · Sep 26, 2022Press report · businesswire.com
- Technologies in its job postings
- 17Named in its job postings
Funding and backers
Total raised
$8M
1 round on record
Latest round
$8M
Venture round · Sep 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
2
open roles
Backers
1
Decibel
The money's age
Long since its last round
49 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
30/100
in the news, rising traction
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 2026
Formerly Penpot Fest (penpotfest.org)
May 1, 2024
On the Hacker News front page Figma OSS Alternative · 294 points
Jun 28, 2023
Launched Penpot Introduces Innovative New Design Collaboration Tools and Partners with Tokens Studio to Build an AI Engine for Design Systems · businesswire.com
Sep 26, 2022
Raised a round Venture round $8M
Sep 15, 2022
On the Hacker News front page Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform · 1145 points
Feb 2, 2021
On the Hacker News front page Penpot Alpha Release – Free and Open-Source Design Plattform · 133 points
2021
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.42%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
24
best: 1145 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Sep 2022 | $8M | — | businesswire.com |
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Jobs
$66k – $74k per year (gross) · Remote (Spain, CET hours) · Full-Time · Madrid
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Clojure
LISP
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
2
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~10 hours
11/12/2026
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
50% ▼
Industrial Engineering
50% ▼
Financials
Total raised
$8M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2022 | $8M | Details |
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Penpot over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
17
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
90/100AI adopter
Languages
Clojure
JavaScript
LISP
C++
ClojureScript
Rust
Frameworks & libraries
Cypress
Jest
Playwright
React.js
RxJS
Cloud & platforms
Linux
WebAssembly
Developer tools
Cursor
AI & ML
ChatGPT
Claude
LLM
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News
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2.14 - Come together
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How to cite this page
Alion, "Penpot: key facts", as of Nov 13, 2026. https://alion.io/company/penpot
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