Amsterdam-based Framer, a no-code website platform helping companies build and run sophisticated marketing sites, has raised €85.6 million in a Series D round at a €1.7 billion valuation.
The round was led by returning investors Meritech and Atomico, with participation from WiL and HV Capital. Framer’s product is already in use by high-growth startups and global giants such as Perplexity, Scale AI, Mixpanel, and Miro.
“We weren’t out fundraising. The round came together because of our traction with fast-growing startups and global brands, the strength of our business, and the size of the opportunity ahead,” said the two Founders Koen Bok and Jorn van Dijk.
Founded in 2014, Framer’s pitch is simple: building a high-quality, fully responsive, CMS-integrated website should not require engineering resources. The platform enables designers and marketers to build, deploy, and iterate marketing sites directly, removing traditional bottlenecks.
The company says it is now powering hundreds of thousands of sites and attracting over half a million users every month.
Framer originally launched as a tool for interactive design prototyping before pivoting into its current focus on full-scale website development. Over the past decade, the team has evolved its product to include a powerful design canvas, built-in CMS, A/B testing tools, funnel tracking, enterprise-grade security, and real-time collaboration – all within a single platform.
That combination has proven especially appealing to startups with tight timelines and limited development bandwidth.
Notably, nearly half of the latest Y Combinator cohort chose to launch their marketing websites on Framer, signalling a shift in developer preferences and further validation of the tool’s positioning. The company has also achieved a key milestone – operating at break-even for the past year, which it credits as a factor in the investor-initiated funding round.
The new capital will be used to fuel Framer’s expansion in the US, intensify its investment in AI features, and enhance both product and go-to-market teams. A key part of that future vision includes enabling even faster, more dynamic site updates.
The recent release of on-page editing – allowing teams to adjust text, images, and even structure without opening the full CMS – is just one example of Framer’s direction.
“For more than a decade, tools like Wix and Squarespace have made it easier to spin up personal sites. But when it comes to professional, high-traffic, brand-defining websites, teams have still been stuck in developer-heavy workflows. That’s the gap we’re closing,” said Bok and van Dijk.
While the website-builder space is crowded with incumbents and newcomers alike, Framer is distinguishing itself by aiming squarely at professional teams who demand speed, scalability, and aesthetics – without compromising on functionality or flexibility.
The platform’s ambitions stretch beyond web design and into the broader territory of digital brand presence. By offering a unified environment for designing, publishing, testing, and analysing sites, Framer is betting that it can become the go-to platform for the modern ‘.com’.
With teams spread across Amsterdam, San Francisco, New York, and Barcelona, Framer is gearing up for a busy end of year with a series of major announcements scheduled for autumn.
“The next chapter is about making Framer the best website platform in the world. Faster, better, and more fun than ever,” added the Founders.
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/08/dutch-startup-framer-raises-e85-6-million-at-e1-7-billion-valuation-to-expand-no-code-web-platform/
