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Canva company history timeline
Expecting to meet with them as an advisor in March 2012, Adams would sign on as third cofounder the following June.
Canva was founded in 2012 by Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht.
On a steamy May morning in 2013, Canva CEO Melanie Perkins found herself adrift on a kiteboard in the channel between billionaire Richard Branson’s private Necker and Moskito islands.
The company launched in August 2013 to a couple of reviews on tech blogs and few users.
The trickle of sign-ups grew to 50,000 users in the first month; by 2014, when Canva raised another $3 million from Thiel’s Founders Fund and Shasta Ventures, 600,000 users had made 3.5 million designs.
Obrecht—a tall, amiable presence who, as COO, often rallies the troops (or delivers bad news)—opened Canva’s first office outside of Sydney, in Manila, in 2014, then hired the former head of LinkedIn’s China unit to build an office in mainland China.
It has offered its own freemium, templates-driven app, called Adobe Spark, since 2016.
In 2017, the company announced that it had already gained profit after only launching five years earlier.
The company went into another round of funding in 2019, raising $70 million from General Catalyst and other investment companies.
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After raising $60 million in the first half of 2020, Canva is now valued at $6 billion.
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