Framer is an AI website platform for creating, publishing, and growing sites on one canvas

2014

Founded

$2B

Valuation

$100M

Series D

Framer launched in 2014, but its story began years earlier, when Koen Bok and Jorn van Dijk were building software together in Amsterdam.

At Sofa, they made Mac apps that won two Apple Design Awards. Koen worked across design and engineering; Jorn brought a background in graphic design and typography. Facebook acquired Sofa in 2011, and they went on to work on products for a much larger audience.

They founded Framer with a belief that design and engineering belonged on the same canvas. Its first version let designers make ideas move, test interactions, and show how a product would feel. Giving designers more control over what they made remained central as Framer grew from prototypes to published websites.

Koen Bok

Co-founder and CEO

Jorn van Dijk

Co-founder and CEO

Making ideas interactive

Framer began as a prototyping tool. Designers could animate ideas, test interactions, and show how a product would feel.

Turning designs into live sites

Framer rebuilt the product so teams could design, publish, and update websites from one canvas.

Putting AI to work on the canvas

Framer Agents can design, write, and build directly on the canvas where teams edit and publish websites. Every change stays editable, so teams can refine the result and decide what goes live.