Canva
VC Fund
Sydney, Australia
Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery.It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
- Fund size:
- $50M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Canva invests in
Stages Canva invests in
Countries Canva invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 14 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $2.8M–$4.2M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (75%)
- SaaS 1 (25%)
- Cooking 1 (25%)
- Recipes 1 (25%)
- Artificial Intelligence 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (75%)
- Series B 1 (25%)
Country
- Australia 2 (50%)
- Philippines 1 (25%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cameron Adams
CPO & Co-Founder
|
CPO & Co-Founder | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Cliff Obrecht
COO & Co-Founder
|
COO & Co-Founder | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Melanie Perkins
Co-founder & CEO
|
Co-founder & CEO | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Alex McClafferty
Group Product Lead
|
Group Product Lead | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Bill Tai
Investor (seed round)
|
Investor (seed round) | Total investments: 62 | Find email | |
| See all 14 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility. | $300M / Series B / Dec 01, 2025 | ||
| Clove is a global recipe and culinary platform to make cooking easier for everyone. Clove platform enables recipe producers to post high-quality, easy-to-follow recipes and reach new audiences, while AI and personalization assist ordinary cooks in finding relevant and inspired dishes. | Seed / Dec 11, 2023 | ||
| Upollo accelerates subscription business growth by predicting who is going to churn, convert, expand and why. They analyze over half a billion dollars in subscription revenue, billions of events for tens of millions of users and provide these internet scale learnings to subscription businesses all over the globe. Customer success teams use Upolloto find and act on churn before it happens and identify expansion opportunities, sales and marketing teams use it to find the right opportunities and how to turn them into additional revenue. | $2.8M / Seed / Nov 30, 2022 | ||
| Calven is the first B2B SaaS platform to manage hybrid work, real estate and workplace experience in a unified way. The platform: • Makes hybrid work, work ; by frictionlessly allowing employees, teams and the organisation to work transparently and effectively in a distributed way • Optimises the office; by creating an officeexperience that is streamlined, convenient and appealing. Simplifying access to services and maximising real estate • Amplifies employee experience; by facilitating and maintaining a vibrant, engaging culture no matter where everyone works | $4.2M / Seed / Feb 28, 2022 |
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FAQ
What does Canva invest in?
Canva invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Cooking startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Canva invest in?
Canva typically joins rounds of $2.8M–$4.2M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Canva's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Canva took part in.
How do I contact Canva?
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Who are the partners at Canva?
The team at Canva includes Cameron Adams (CPO & Co-Founder), Cliff Obrecht (COO & Co-Founder) and Melanie Perkins (Co-founder & CEO), among 14 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
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