Online design platform Figma has acquired the development team behind vibe coding and AI agent platform Bud. TechCrunch reported on Monday that Figma pursued the acquisition to strengthen AI features and integrate coding and prototyping processes within its platform.

Bud is a startup backed by Y Combinator. It started under the name Okies and ran a vibe coding platform for building mobile, web, Slack and browser apps. It later changed its name to Bud and shifted to an agent platform that accesses multiple services, browses the web and writes code to automate tasks.

Bud Chief Executive Kevin Liu (케빈 루) wrote in a post on social media platform X, formerly Twitter, that Figma is a place where ideas begin and are refined through iteration into reality.

Under the deal, Bud and Okies will shut down their services by July 18. Users must migrate their projects before then. Figma did not disclose how it plans to use the acquired team.

Based on its recent product launches, Figma is expanding tools for teams that support app creation and prototyping beyond the stage of mapping out static ideas. It launched its web app creation tool Figma Make last year. This year it integrated with Codex and Claude Code and also introduced its own agent.