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§ Private Profile · Sydney, Australia
Online graphic design platform enabling professional designs, presentations, and videos with simple drag-and-drop tools for non-designers.
Canva is a Sydney, Australia-based online graphic design platform that provides drag-and-drop tools, templates, and AI-powered features for creating visual content, presentations, and videos. The company operates on a freemium business model, offering paid subscriptions for premium enterprise tools, team collaboration capabilities, and physical printing services. Operating profitably, the software platform generates approximately $4 billion in annual recurring revenue and serves a global audience of 265 million monthly active users. Furthermore, the system processes over 800 million artificial intelligence uses per month across its expanding suite of digital marketing and educational products. The enterprise reached a $26 billion valuation following an $85 million funding round, drawing financial backing from prominent institutional investors including Blackbird Ventures, Skip Capital, and Bond Capital. Canva was originally founded in 2013 by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, and Cameron Adams.
Canva has raised $1.1B across 18 funding rounds.
Key people at Canva.
Canva is an AI-powered visual communication platform with 265M monthly active users for designing presentations, social media, video, documents, and print.
Canva hit $4B in annualized revenue as of early 2026, with B2B revenue doubling to $500M ARR.
No. Canva is private, valued at approximately $26B on the secondary market as of 2024.
Canva processes 800M AI tool uses per month (+700% YoY) including Magic Design, Magic Write, Magic Edit, and AI-powered templates.
Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, and Cameron Adams co-founded Canva in Sydney in 2013.
Canva is an AI-powered visual communication platform with 265M monthly active users for designing presentations, social media, video, documents, and print.
Canva hit $4B in annualized revenue as of early 2026, with B2B revenue doubling to $500M ARR.
No. Canva is private, valued at approximately $26B on the secondary market as of 2024.
Canva processes 800M AI tool uses per month (+700% YoY) including Magic Design, Magic Write, Magic Edit, and AI-powered templates.
Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, and Cameron Adams co-founded Canva in Sydney in 2013.
Product
Canva's platform spans the full visual communication stack:
Key Metrics (Feb 2026)
History
The AI Growth Engine
Canva's AI strategy is the opposite of defensive. The company has embedded AI into every creation workflow — not as an add-on, but as the core experience. 800 million AI tool uses per month means AI isn't a feature at Canva; it's the product.
The most interesting development is LLM referral traffic. ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI chatbots are recommending Canva to users who ask for help creating visual content. This is an entirely new growth channel — high-intent, zero-CAC traffic from AI itself. No other design tool has cracked this distribution advantage.
Competitive Position
Canva occupies a distinct lane in the design tools market:
Canva isn't just surviving AI. It's riding it. The company that started as "Photoshop for everyone" is becoming the AI-native creation platform for everything visual.
Key Investors
Sequoia Capital, General Atlantic, T. Rowe Price, Blackbird Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Dragoneer.
Key people at Canva.
Canva has raised $1.1B across 18 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $200.0M Other Equity in September 2021.
| Date | Company | Round | Lead Investor(s) | Co-Investor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1, 2025 | Black Forest Labs | $300.0M Series B | Anjney Midha, Nowi Kallen | Brendan Iribe, Clément Delangue, Garry TAN, Guillermo Rauch, Mati Staniszewski, Michael Ovitz, Nico Rosberg, Timo Aila, Vladlen Koltun, Adobe, AIR Street Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, BroadLight Capital, Cherry Ventures, Creandum, Deutsche Telekom, Earlybird Venture Capital, European Tech Collective, Figma Ventures, General Catalyst, Headline, LEA Partners, LUX Capital, Northzone, Notion Capital, NVIDIA, Quantumlight, Samsung Next, Section 32, Shutterstock, Stepstone Group, SV Angel, Temasek, Visionaries Club |
| Jul 1, 2022 | WagerWire | $3.0M Seed | Roger Ehrenberg, WagerWire | Chalfen Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Upfront Ventures, Zinc, Khaled Helioui, George Rover, Cardinal Sports Capital, Cooley, Full Moon Sports Solutions, Palantir, Joey Levy, SolarCity, Sports Meta |
