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title: "Visio Corporation: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Visio Corporation was a software company based in Seattle, Washington, best known for creating the Visio diagramming application. Founded in 1989 by alumni of Aldus Corporation, the company released its first product in 1992 and went public in 1995."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-visio-corporation
type: Organization
wikidata: Q7936108
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visio_Corporation
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Visio Corporation

> Visio Corporation was a software company based in Seattle, Washington, best known for creating the Visio diagramming application. Founded in 1989 by alumni of Aldus Corporation, the company released its first product in 1992 and went public in 1995.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 1989-05-01
- Dissolved: 2000-01-07
- Headquarters: Seattle
- Status: closed
- Industries: software development

## Ownership

Parent: [Microsoft](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-microsoft.md)

## Products

- software

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Visio Corporation, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-visio-corporation#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7936108, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visio_Corporation

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