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AcquiredYC S20San Francisco, US · Founded 2020 · 5 employees · 21 known investors
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Fig develops autocomplete software, visual applications, and keyboard shortcuts for terminal interfaces, designed to make command-line tools more usable for both novice and experienced developers.
Also known as Hercules Labs Inc. · FanX · Hercules · Quid · Quid, FanX, Hercules · Fig (fig.io) · withfig
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S20)
Fig was founded in 2020 by Brendan Falk and Matt Schrage.
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Funding
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Fig is a developer-tools company whose products add IDE-style autocomplete, visual applications and keyboard shortcuts to existing terminals and shells. Its stated aim is to re-imagine the terminal so that it is more approachable for beginners while making advanced engineers more productive. Autocomplete was the company's first product, with a longer-term plan to build a broader app-store style ecosystem for the terminal [5].
Much of Fig's work is distributed openly through the withfig GitHub organisation, which hosts the autocomplete client and completion specs alongside supporting tooling: command-line tools for authoring autocomplete specs, a GitHub Action that opens pull requests against the autocomplete repository, a plugin store for zsh, bash and fish, themes, a GNOME Shell extension, a Lezer grammar for shell scripts, and a plugin that generates CLI skeletons from the AWS CLI's internal representation. The organisation lists 42 repositories in total; the public issue tracker and the plugin store repositories are archived [1].
The company was founded in 2020, took part in Y Combinator's Summer 2020 batch, is based in San Francisco and is categorised under developer tools, DevSecOps and open source. Its listed team size is five, and its founders are Brendan Falk (CEO, previously at Brex, Harvard 2020) and Matt Schrage [5].
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Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsFig announced it had joined AWS; press coverage from TechCrunch and GeekWire reported Amazon Web Services acquiring Fig, a Y Combinator graduate building autocomplete for the command line.
TechCrunch reported a $2.2M raise, as listed in Fig's Y Combinator company news.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Fig do?
- Fig builds IDE-style autocomplete, visual apps and shortcuts for the terminal; the YC-backed company was acquired by AWS.
- Who founded Fig?
- Fig was founded by Brendan Falk, Matt Schrage in 2020.
- Who are Fig's investors?
- Fig's investors include General Catalyst, Maximilian Stoiber, Scribble Ventures, Y Combinator, Abacus Capital Group, Basement, Blackbird Ventures, Capital B Private Holdings and 13 more.
- Where is Fig headquartered?
- Fig is headquartered in San Francisco, US.