Cliff Obrecht
COO & Co-Founder @ Canva
Sydney, Australia
Cliff Obrecht is a seed investor at Canva in Sydney focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Cliff Obrecht is based out of Sydney, New South Wales and is the COO and Co-Founder of Canva. Cliff previously worked at Fusion Books as a Managing Director. Cliff Obrecht attended the University of Western Australia.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 13%
Last updated:
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Industries Cliff Obrecht invests in
Stages Cliff Obrecht invests in
Countries Cliff Obrecht invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$7.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (50%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (38%)
- Information Technology 2 (25%)
- SaaS 1 (13%)
- Drones 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (38%)
- Angel 1 (13%)
- Series A 1 (13%)
- Series B 1 (13%)
- Funding Round 1 (13%)
Country
- Australia 2 (25%)
- United States 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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BottleCap AI
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BottleCap AI is a company that focuses on architecture-first, efficiency-focused basic LLMs designed to reason better per unit of CPU and enable previously impossible applications. | $7.5M / Seed / Jan 29, 2026 | |
Unsloth AI
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Unsloth is an AI startup focusing on making AI more accessible to the everyday person! Our open-source streamlines the process of finetuning and makes LLMs 2.2x faster and use 62% less VRAM. | Angel / May 24, 2024 | |
Propeller Aero
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Propeller is a global leader in drone-mapping and analytics solutions that give worksites the power to measure and manage themselves.Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with a North American office in Denver, USA, Propeller’s innovative hardware and software products solve real problems for real people. With visual tools everyone can use,Propeller is helping teams on thousands of worksites track, inspect, and report on job progress and productivity safely and accurately. Founded in 2014 by Francis Vierboom and Rory San Miguel, Propeller serves construction, aggregates, mining, and waste management industries globally. | $15.3M / Apr 17, 2023 | |
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Propeller Aero
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Propeller is a global leader in drone-mapping and analytics solutions that give worksites the power to measure and manage themselves.Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with a North American office in Denver, USA, Propeller’s innovative hardware and software products solve real problems for real people. With visual tools everyone can use,Propeller is helping teams on thousands of worksites track, inspect, and report on job progress and productivity safely and accurately. Founded in 2014 by Francis Vierboom and Rory San Miguel, Propeller serves construction, aggregates, mining, and waste management industries globally. | $15.3M / Series B / Apr 17, 2023 | |
Marlee (Fingerprint For Success)
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Marlee is a collaboration and performance AI that helps individuals and teams bring out the best in each other. Providing personalized insights in just minutes, making connecting, motivating, collaborating, and developing easy, right in the flow of work.Marlee is built on 25 years of global human data and evidence-based psychologies, and it isnow the world's largest global database of human motivations.In 2020, we launched the world's first AI Coach Marlee, to help everyone to develop and achieve their goals. With a 4.4 star customer rating, Marlee coaches to 1,000 different types of goals to support work, career, leadership, financial, well-being and relationships. 90% of people achieve their goals within just four weeks! | $4.4M / Seed / Feb 01, 2023 | |
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Marlee (Fingerprint For Success)
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Marlee is a collaboration and performance AI that helps individuals and teams bring out the best in each other. Providing personalized insights in just minutes, making connecting, motivating, collaborating, and developing easy, right in the flow of work.Marlee is built on 25 years of global human data and evidence-based psychologies, and it isnow the world's largest global database of human motivations.In 2020, we launched the world's first AI Coach Marlee, to help everyone to develop and achieve their goals. With a 4.4 star customer rating, Marlee coaches to 1,000 different types of goals to support work, career, leadership, financial, well-being and relationships. 90% of people achieve their goals within just four weeks! | $3.5M / Series A / Jan 31, 2023 | |
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Marlee (Fingerprint For Success)
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Marlee is a collaboration and performance AI that helps individuals and teams bring out the best in each other. Providing personalized insights in just minutes, making connecting, motivating, collaborating, and developing easy, right in the flow of work.Marlee is built on 25 years of global human data and evidence-based psychologies, and it isnow the world's largest global database of human motivations.In 2020, we launched the world's first AI Coach Marlee, to help everyone to develop and achieve their goals. With a 4.4 star customer rating, Marlee coaches to 1,000 different types of goals to support work, career, leadership, financial, well-being and relationships. 90% of people achieve their goals within just four weeks! | $1.1M / Seed / Dec 23, 2019 | |
Vendr
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Vendr is a SaaS buying and management platform that helps companies find the right software, buy it at a fair price, and manage it effortlessly.As the SaaS buying category creator with the largest data set, Finance and Procurement teams have the ability to tap into Vendr for any part of the purchasing process, from searching for new tools tonegotiating back and forth, to catching up on upcoming renewals.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Recently raised $150M Series B and acquired SaaS management platform, Blissfully, to expand our capabilities for our customers. | $2M / Seed / Oct 23, 2019 |
Co-Investors
About 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.
Canva Contacts
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Cameron Adams
CPO & Co-Founder
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Cliff Obrecht
COO & Co-Founder
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Melanie Perkins
Co-founder & CEO
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Alex McClafferty
Group Product Lead
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Bill Tai
Investor (seed round)
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FAQ
What does Cliff Obrecht invest in?
Cliff Obrecht invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Cliff Obrecht's check size?
Cliff Obrecht typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$7.5M 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 Cliff Obrecht participates in.
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When did Cliff Obrecht last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Cliff Obrecht closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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