Five-year-old AI platform recognized in the world’s most prestigious design competition for bringing consumer-grade design excellence to traditionally overlooked business processes

Zip, the world’s leading agentic procurement orchestration platform, today announced its selection as a finalist in Fast Company’s 2025 Innovation by Design Awards, marking the first time a procurement platform has earned this recognition in the competition’s history. The award recognizes Zip’s groundbreaking brand redesign for transforming enterprise procurement software from a source of friction into an experience employees actually enjoy using.

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Zip Rebrand

The Innovation by Design Awards honor designers and businesses solving today’s most crucial problems while anticipating tomorrow’s pressing issues. Zip joins The New York Times, Adobe, Deloitte Digital, Ralph Lauren, and Canva among this year’s honorees, selected from thousands of entries across 30 categories spanning every aspect of design.

“This Fast Company recognition validates what we set out to prove: that enterprise software can challenge conventions through creative expression,” said Cathy Kwon, Brand Design Lead at Zip. “This rebrand was never just about new visuals, it was a bold step in bringing Zip’s vision and purpose to life. Helping our customers and prospects see not just what we’ve built, but where we’re going together. We wanted to transform procurement into something optimistic, energizing, and deeply connecting, enabling teams to work in a state of flow. This evolution aligns our identity with our mission and ambition to redefine what’s possible in procurement.”

Unveiled in September 2024, Zip’s bold new visual identity broke free from decades of enterprise software design conventions – bringing clarity to complex workflows, reducing cognitive load, and creating beautiful experiences that transform how people interact with procurement software. The timing proved prescient: just one month after the rebrand launch, Zip secured a landmark $190 million Series D at a $2.2 billion valuation, the largest investment in procurement technology in two decades.

The design’s business impact was immediate as companies like Anthropic, Coinbase, Discover, Northwestern Mutual, OpenAI, Reddit, Sephora, and Snowflake continue to embrace Zip’s human-centered approach to enterprise software.

“Procurement is one of the most critical functions in business, yet it’s been overlooked and underserved by great product design for decades,” said Aleene Webber, Head of Corporate Marketing at Zip. “Being the first to bring life to this space is incredibly meaningful, making it human and elevating the procurement heroes who save businesses billions while ensuring finance operations run smoothly. Great design shouldn’t be reserved for consumer apps. The people managing complex business processes deserve tools that are powerful, intelligent, and actually beautifully designed, too.”

The Fast Company recognition adds to Zip’s growing list of 2025 honors, including Forbes’ Fintech 50, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and CNBC’s World’s Top Fintechs. The Innovation by Design Awards will be featured on fastcompany.com and in Fast Company's Fall issue.

To experience Zip’s award-winning design and see how it’s transforming procurement for hundreds of leading enterprises worldwide, visit www.ziphq.com or request a demo at www.ziphq.com/demo.

About Zip

Zip is the world’s leading agentic procurement orchestration platform, empowering businesses to accelerate the procurement process, mitigate risk, and drive growth by offering a single front door to unify the teams, tasks, and tools involved in working with suppliers. With Zip, businesses can maximize employee adoption of purchasing policies and increase spend visibility and control. As the leading solution for optimizing business spend, Zip’s AI-powered platform is trusted by hundreds of leading enterprises worldwide, including AMD, Anthropic, Coinbase, Discover, Dollar Tree, Instacart, Invesco, Lyft, Northwestern Mutual, Prudential, Reddit, Sephora, and Snowflake to maximize the ROI of every dollar. To learn more, visit ziphq.com.

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Zip joins the New York Times, Adobe, Deloitte Digital, Ralph Lauren, and Canva among this year’s honorees, selected from thousands of entries across 30 categories spanning every aspect of design.