# Canva

> Canva is a VC fund in Sydney backing Software, SaaS and Cooking. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/canva
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/canva
- Website: http://www.canva.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/canva

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.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Canva. Shizune tracks 14 team members at Canva. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/canva?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.8M–$4.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 75% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Cooking | 1 | 25% |
| Recipes | 1 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 25% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Series B | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 2 | 50% |
| Philippines | 1 | 25% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cameron Adams | CPO & Co-Founder | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cameron-adams |
| Cliff Obrecht | COO & Co-Founder | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cliff-obrecht |
| Melanie Perkins | Co-founder & CEO | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/melanie-perkins |
| Alex McClafferty | Group Product Lead | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-mcclafferty |
| Bill Tai | Investor (seed round) | 60 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-tai |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Black Forest Labs | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Adobe Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adobe-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Air Street Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/air-street-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Airtree Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/airtree-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AMP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amp-4af4) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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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 is Canva's check size?

Canva typically joins rounds of $2.8M–$4.2M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Canva participates in.

### How do I contact Canva?

Public channels for Canva include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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