Layoff
Aug 2023San Francisco Standard reported Zeplin laid off 37 employees, roughly 35% of the workforce; the cuts hit sales, marketing, design, product, support, and HR, amid competition from Figma and customer losses.
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zeplin.io
HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA; London, England, United Kingdom; Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
51-200
B2B
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Zeplin is a design-delivery SaaS that helps product teams publish finalized designs, manage workflows, generate specs/assets/code snippets, and run AI-assisted design reviews to bridge the handoff between design and engineering.
Primary product
Design delivery workspace for sharing finalized designs, workflows, specs, assets, and code snippets
Founded
2014
Headquarters
832 Sansome Street, Floor 3, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA
Team size
20-30
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Design tools / design delivery platform
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
London, United Kingdom
Istanbul, Türkiye
Business model
SaaS
subscription
per-project pricing
per-seat pricing
enterprise contracts
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$1.4M
Latest round
Seed · Nov 2015
Latest amount
$1.2M
People & investors
Leadership
Product designer, Co-Founder & CEO
Co-founder, Product
Co-Founder & COO
Software Developer, Co-Founder
Director of Finance
Director of Information Security
Head of Support
General Counsel
Work & culture
Culture is explicitly framed around users first, quality, kindness and inclusion, enjoyment, and proactive ownership; the team describes itself as distributed across 7 time zones with offices in the US, UK, and Turkey.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public salary data surfaced in company datasets suggests roughly $131k/year for software engineers, ~$85k/year for sales, and ~$100k/year for recruitment roles, with employer ratings around 4.7/5 and compensation around 4.6/5. This is directional, not a formal compensation policy.
Benefits
flexible work hours
medical coverage
dental coverage
vision coverage
paid time off
parental leave
401(k) with company match
personal development funds
wellness funds
work-from-home perks
brand-new laptop and accessories
Product & market
Pricing
Free, pay-per-project, per-seat, and custom enterprise pricing
Differentiators
- —design-delivery workspace focused on finalized designs rather than creation
- —AI Design Review and AI Organize
- —flows, approvals, version compare, and styleguides/components
- —deep integrations with Jira, Slack, Storybook, VS Code, Azure DevOps, and more
- —per-project unlimited-seat Basic plan
- —enterprise security features such as SSO, MFA, SCIM, and domain capture
Technology
Postmark
Intercom
Jira
Mixpanel
Retool
Stripe
Salesforce
Slack
Python
Swift
Facebook
LinkedIn
Dropbox
Box
Autodesk
Microsoft
Customers
Apple
Starbucks
Salesforce
Amazon
Microsoft
Audi
thousands of product teams
200,000+ organizations
Competitors
Figma
Builder.io
Abstract
UXPin
dscout
UserTesting
Wizeline
Repsly
Scale & contact
Signals & risks
Latest news
Zeplin Gazette · Jun 2026
Zeplin removed beta labels from AI Design Review and AI Organize and introduced custom categories so teams can write their own review prompts and tighten handoff QA.
Zeplin Gazette · Dec 2024
Annual product roundup highlighting a major Summer Breeze redesign, pricing/package changes, approvals improvements, and 104 releases during 2024.
Zeplin Gazette · Nov 2024
Zeplin relaunched Approvals as Approvals 2.0 with grouped approvals, a focused review view, and a central approvals hub.
Zeplin Gazette · Jun 2024
Zeplin updated its pricing with a revamped Free plan, a per-project Basic plan, and organization-grade security/support on higher tiers.
The San Francisco Standard · Aug 2023
Reported layoffs of 37 people (~35% of staff) at Zeplin, with cuts concentrated in go-to-market and support-related functions amid competitive pressure.
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