What Webflow does
Webflow, Inc. is a privately held San Francisco company that sells a visual editor for building websites, along with a content management system and managed hosting. Designers work on a browser canvas, and Webflow generates the HTML, CSS and JavaScript behind each page. Customers pay per-site plans for hosting and CMS, per-seat workspace plans, or custom enterprise contracts.
Founding and funding
Vlad Magdalin, his brother Sergie Magdalin and engineer Bryant Chou launched Webflow in 2013 and took it through Y Combinator. A $1.5 million seed round followed in 2014. After several lean years, Webflow raised a $72 million Series A led by Accel in 2019, a $140 million Series B at a $2.1 billion valuation in January 2021, and a $120 million Series C at a $4 billion valuation in March 2022, led by Y Combinator Continuity. Total funding passed $330 million. Webflow does not publish revenue; at the time of the Series C, Forbes reported it was nearing $100 million in annual recurring revenue.
Leadership
Linda Tong joined Webflow as COO in 2022 and became CEO in June 2024. Vlad Magdalin, CEO since the founding, moved to Chief Innovation Officer.
Acquisitions
- Intellimize (April 2024): AI website personalization and conversion optimization, Webflow's first acquisition.
- GreenSock (October 2024): maker of the GSAP JavaScript animation library.
- Vidoso.ai (March 2026): AI generation of brand-aligned images and video for marketers.
Terms of all three deals were not disclosed.
Where Webflow is heading
At Webflow Conf 2026 in Boston on September 2, 2026, Webflow unveiled Source by Webflow, a workspace where marketing teams and AI agents build and optimize sites together, released as a limited research preview. Competition is the main challenge: Framer has overtaken Webflow among recent Y Combinator startups' homepages, while WordPress, Wix and Squarespace remain large rivals.