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Funding and backers

Total raised
$28M
1 round on record
Latest round
$28M
Venture round · Jul 2021 · 5 yr ago
Team
5
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · -38% in a year
Backers
1
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The money's age
Long since its last round
63 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
15/100
in the news
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
Jul 9, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $28M · SEC Form D 2017 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
14
best: 65 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jul 2021 $28M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Whimsical, Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Kaspars DancisExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Overview

Whimsical is a workspace for product teams combining flowcharts, wireframes, mind maps and documents on one canvas. It is deliberately opinionated, with fast defaults instead of the open-ended freedom of a general whiteboard. Product managers and designers use it for early thinking before design tools.

News

Blog 1 month ago
Code blocks in Boards
Whimsical boards now support code blocks with syntax highlighting, plus live embeds when copied into Docs. Also: MCP comments, vertical mind maps, and richer paste support.
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Blog 2 months ago
Better search and icons in flowcharts
Add icons directly inside flowchart shapes and find anything faster with Turbopuffer-powered search. Plus dark mode in embeds, editable doc tables via MCP, and more.
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News Mastodon 2 months ago
BasicAppleGuy (@[email protected])
Attached: 4 imagesWhimsical DMG screens are a dying art. Bless the designers who still make them.
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Blog 3 months ago
The anatomy of a SaaS comparison page
Most SaaS comparison pages aren't designed to help you choose. They're built to win search rankings. Here's how to spot the patterns.
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Blog 3 months ago
Dark mode
Whimsical now offers whiteboarding in dark mode. Build flowcharts, mind maps, and diagrams on an infinite canvas that's easy on the eyes, day or night.
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Blog 3 months ago
Ask Whimsical
Introducing Ask Whimsical, an AI agent for creating diagrams, wireframes, mind maps, searching your workspace, and iterating on your work.
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Blog 4 months ago
Elbow connector improvements
Snappier elbow connectors, a Whimsical Claude connector, and MCP expansion, plus a more compact board toolbar and dozens of fixes across boards, docs, and collaboration.
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Blog 4 months ago
Introducing self-serve, enterprise-grade Business plan
Enterprise features. Public pricing. No sales call required. Whimsical's Business plan is fully self-serve - buy, manage, and renew entirely on your own terms.
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People

Kaspars Dancis
Executive Officer, Director
Daniel Levine
Director
Steve Schoeffel
Director
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
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San Francisco United States
HQ
Denver United States
HQ

Financials

Total raised
$28M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $28M Details