What Webflow is
Webflow is an agentic web marketing platform that lets teams design, build, launch, optimize, and rank in AI search visually without writing code. Founded in 2013 by Vlad Magdalin, Sergie Magdalin, and Bryant Chou and headquartered in San Francisco, it combines a visual CMS, managed hosting on a global CDN, ecommerce, AI-powered Optimize/Analyze, and Webflow Cloud for full-stack apps. Trusted by 300,000+ teams including The New York Times, Dropbox, Monday.com, TED, and Docusign.
Funding snapshot
Webflow raised a $140M Series B in January 2021 at a reported $2.1B valuation (VentureBeat), following a $72M Series A in 2019 led by Accel and an initial $1.5M round in 2014 (source: Wikipedia). It acquired GreenSock (GSAP) in October 2024 and Vidoso.ai in March 2026. No later primary round or 2025 secondary/tender valuation is documented in that source.
Key features
- Visual website builder with full CSS/HTML/JS control and clean W3C-compliant code export
- Built-in CMS with dynamic Collections, multi-reference fields, and localization
- Managed hosting on Amazon CloudFront/Fastly CDN with 99.99% uptime and enterprise security (SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA)
- GSAP-powered interactions, animations, and 3D transforms without code
- Webflow AI Assistant, AI site builder, App Gen app building and AI code components (Webflow AI credits), AI-optimized testing in Optimize, and Analyze privacy-first analytics
- Native ecommerce with cart, checkout, subscriptions, and 0% transaction fee tiers
- Webflow Cloud for full-stack web app deployment plus React/DevLink code components
Where it lives
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Sources & media
- Webflow plans and pricing — site, platform, and enterprise plans · Webflow (official)
- Webflow features overview (CMS, hosting, AI, ecommerce) · Webflow (official)
- Webflow updates and release notes · Webflow (official)
- Webflow developer documentation · Webflow (official)
- Simplified plans and updated pricing for 2026 · Webflow Blog (official)
- Updated pricing and simplified plans for May 2026 (CMS and Business merged into Premium) · Webflow Help Center (official)
- Webflow — Wikipedia · Wikipedia
- Webflow — Build with the agentic web platform
- Webflow Conf 2026 Announcements
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