Visio Corporation was a software company based in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Axon Corporation was incorporated May 1, 1989, shortly after Jeremy Jaech left Aldus.

[1] Later, in summer 1990, Jeremy Jaech and Ted Johnson met to come up with the initial product definition and then in the fall of 1990 recruited Dave Walter as their third founder.

When Shapeware released Visio 4.0 on August 18, 1995, it was one of the first applications developed specifically for Windows 95.

Based on the value of Microsoft stock when the deal closed, the trade was worth approximately US$1.5 billion.