
Canva
Canva is the leading online design and visual communication platform.
About Canva
Why we invested
- Large, loyal, and fast growing user base. Canva has 150 million monthly active users, up 50% YoY and with excellent customer feedback.
- Exceptionally strong financial profile. Canva has long been profitable and recently crossed $1.7bn in run rate revenue.
- Persistent long-term growth potential. Canva's product suite addresses a massive, underserved market.
- Directly benefiting from AI. Canva was quick to embrace AI and empower its users with new AI-powered functionality.
Investment overview
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- Last funding date
- Sep 1, 2021
- Valuation at last funding
- $40B
- Total funding amount
- $581M
Canva is the leading online design and visual communication platform. Their collaborative and intuitive software makes it easy for anyone (even non-designers) to create professional designs.
Founded in 2012 in Australia, Canva has seen explosive growth since its inception, reaching 10 million users by 2015 and 135 million users by 2023. The company is emerging as the leading challenger of Adobe, the dominant incumbent player in design software.




