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Canva

5 conversations across 3 shows.
Meet the people behind the company.

About Canva

Canva is a Sydney company that makes an online design and publishing platform used to create presentations, social media graphics, documents, videos, websites and print materials. It offers free and paid plans for individuals, teams, schools and enterprises, and reports more than 220 million monthly active users. Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams founded it, and it launched in 2013.

Sector
Online design and visual communication
Business model
B2B2C SaaS (freemium design platform)
Founded
2013
Founders
Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, Cameron Adams
Headquarters
Surry Hills, Sydney
Markets
Global
Team size
5,000+ people (2026)
Total raised
US$2.1B (2026)

Sources: en.wikipedia.org, canva.com, tracxn.com

The people on Day One.

Cameron Adams

Co-founder & Chief Product Officer

“People coming together with shared passions, people exploring new ideas together, that's where the real magic happens and that's the real reason why you should do a startup.” Hear the conversation

4 episodes

Hear from the team.

Milestones.

  1. Founded by Perkins, Obrecht and Adamsen.wikipedia.org
  2. Raised A$40M at A$1B valuationen.wikipedia.org
  3. Raised US$200M at a US$40B valuationen.wikipedia.org
  4. Reached US$42B valuation via employee stock saleen.wikipedia.org
  5. Released Visual Suite 2 with spreadsheets and AI codingen.wikipedia.org

In conversation.

Moments from other conversations on the network where Canva comes up.

“your winners are going to be, you know, that kind of 12 years, like Canva, they're going on 12 years now and still haven't IPO'd or gotten bought out, right?”
Angel Investing 101: How To Not Run Out Of Money · 24:48
“in the same way that you could just jump into Canva and whether you're a designer or not, you can make a design and you can ship it and share it really quickly.”
$66M fund, AustralianSuper's loss & CAST's debut · 20:54
“So the experience I think he acquired at Google was very, very important when he, you know, moved over to Canva. But there were many, many, many other senior engineers including their CTO David Herndon was on Google Wave”
Alan Noble discusses the contrast between Silicon Valley and Australia in the 2000’s · 18:13

Alumni on Day One.

People who worked at Canva before, and what they're doing now.

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