# Canva

> Canva is an Australian visual communication platform that makes it easy for individuals, schools, small businesses and global enterprises to create, collaborate on and publish designs across presentations, documents, social media, video, websites, print and more. Its freemium model turns broad consumer adoption into paid Pro, Business and Enterprise subscriptions, while its expanding AI and professional-design portfolio pushes it into competition with Adobe, Microsoft, Google and a growing field of AI-native creative tools.

- **Founded:** 2012
- **Headquarters:** Sydney, Australia
- **Founders:** Melanie Perkins (Co-founder and CEO), Cliff Obrecht (Co-founder and COO), Cameron Adams (Co-founder and Chief Product Officer)
- **Team size:** Approximately 5,300 employees in 2026, according to Canva.
- **Products:** Canva Visual Suite, Canva Free, Canva Pro, Canva Business, Canva Enterprise
- **Notable:** Reached 260 million monthly users and US$3.5 billion in revenue in 2025., Serves users in more than 190 countries and supports more than 100 languages., Reported more than 30 billion designs created by 2025.

## Products & services

- **Canva Visual Suite** — A connected editor for presentations, documents, whiteboards, social content, video, websites, print designs and other visual formats.
- **Canva Free** — The no-cost entry plan with drag-and-drop editing, templates, media assets, limited AI use and cloud storage.
- **Canva Pro** — A paid individual plan with premium templates and media, brand tools, background removal, resizing, translation, scheduling and expanded AI access.
- **Canva Business** — A paid plan for individuals and teams that adds collaboration, approvals, larger brand-kit capacity and access to products including Affinity, Leonardo.Ai and Flourish.
- **Canva Enterprise** — An organization-wide subscription with security, identity provisioning, administration, brand governance, custom apps and dedicated support.
- **Canva AI 2.0** — A conversational and agentic creative system that generates layered, editable work and adds connectors, scheduling, research, brand intelligence, Sheets AI and Canva Code 2.0.
- **Affinity** — Professional photo editing, vector design and page-layout software acquired by Canva and positioned for professional creators.
- **Canva for Education and Campus** — Free K-12 tools and institution-level higher-education products for lessons, assignments, presentations and visual learning.
- **Canva Print** — Printing and delivery for eligible designs, connecting digital creation to physical products.
- **Canva Apps and Connect APIs** — Developer tools for integrations, custom apps and embedding Canva creation into other workflows.

## Achievements

- Reached 260 million monthly users and US$3.5 billion in revenue in 2025.
- Serves users in more than 190 countries and supports more than 100 languages.
- Reported more than 30 billion designs created by 2025.
- Reached a US$40 billion valuation after a US$200 million round in 2021.
- Canva says the platform is used by 95% of the Fortune 500.
- Acquired professional design suite Affinity and generative AI company Leonardo.Ai in 2024.
- Provides free product access to roughly 950,000 nonprofits and has donated more than US$2.5 billion in product value to schools and nonprofits.
- Co-founders Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht pledged the vast majority of their equity, about 30% of Canva's value, toward charitable work.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Canva's newsroom highlighted design creation inside Google Gemini and AI Search, extending Canva into external AI workflows.
- **2026-06** — Canva introduced Grow 2.0, a workflow for marketing teams to create, launch and learn from advertising within Canva.
- **2026-05** — Canva introduced Canva AI 2.0 in research preview, adding conversational design, agentic editing, persistent memory and six connected workflows.
- **2026** — Canva acquired Cavalry and MangoAI to deepen professional motion-design and marketing-AI capabilities.
- **2025-12** — Canva reported 260 million monthly users and US$3.5 billion in annual revenue in its 2025 review.

## Links

- Website: https://www.canva.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/canva
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/canva
- GitHub: https://github.com/canva
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/canva
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/canva/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/canva
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@canva

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Last updated: 2026-08-14