# Guy Kawasaki

> Guy Kawasaki is a Series A investor at Canva (San Francisco) backing Internet and Apps. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Canva](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canva)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Nov 2021
- Lead investor: 23%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/guykawasaki
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/guykawasaki
- Website: http://www.guykawasaki.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/guykawasaki

Guy Kawasaki is a Series A investor at Canva in San Francisco focused on Internet and Apps. Guy Takeo Kawasaki is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Chief Evangelist of Canva. Guy previously worked at Apple as a Chief Evangelist. Guy Takeo Kawasaki attended the UCLA.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $450k–$525k |
| Series A | $1.5M–$5.6M |
| Series B | $3M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 3 | 23% |
| Apps | 2 | 15% |
| Software | 2 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 15% |
| Q&A | 1 | 8% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 31% |
| Seed | 3 | 23% |
| Series B | 3 | 23% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cheeze | A minting studio for photographers. |  | Seed | Nov 10, 2021 |  |
| Cheeze | A minting studio for photographers. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Nov 10, 2021 |  |
| Got It AI | Democratizing Conversational AI: Leveraging TrueNLP™ based Self Discovering, Self Training and Self Maintaining Conversational AI. Got It AI eliminates tedious manual work with automatically created flows, intent paraphrases, response paraphrases and No code fulfillment, making it easy to deploy and manage conversational solutions. | $525K | Seed | Oct 01, 2013 |  |
| Buffer | Build your audience and grow your brand on social media. Plan and schedule thumb-stopping content that drives meaningful engagement and growth for your business. | $450K | Seed | Dec 20, 2011 |  |
| Posterous | Posterous emerged from With the launch of Posterous Spaces, the company is bringing its trademark simplicity to help people share smarter with intuitive privacy controlsto share selectively across multiple platforms. | $725K | Angel | Dec 01, 2008 |  |
| FilmLoop | FilmLoop, Inc., a provider of free software that enables people and businesses to broadcast, find, and share digital images. | $7M | Series B | May 01, 2006 |  |
| Kaboodle | Kaboodle is an insurance collaborative that delivers innovative products and services to insurers by enabling insurtech startups to merge offerings with established vendors. | $3.6M | Series A | Apr 17, 2006 |  |
| Kaboodle | Kaboodle offers an easy way to collect information from the web and also search for things you may be interested in. Kaboodle can be used to collect and share information for shopping, travel, research, or just about anything else. With over 35,000 users, Kaboodle's user base is relatively small, but the site is young and has much room togrow. The company has received funding and strong support from such investors as Kanwal Rekhi of Inventus Capital, Junglee founder Ashish Gupta, and co-author of Google's early search algorithm research Rajeev Motwani. | $3.6M | Series A | Apr 17, 2006 |  |
| Simply Hired | Simply Hired, a technology company based in Sunnyvale, California, operates job search engines in 24 countries and 12 languages. With more than 30 million unique visitors per month, the company provides job seekers access to millions of job openings across all job categories and industries, reaching job seekers on the web, mobile devices, email,and via thousands of partner sites including The Washington Post, Fox Business, Bloomberg Businessweek, Computerworld, International Nurses Association, and Hero2Hired. Simply Hired enables employers to efficiently and cost-effectively reach candidates searching for jobs through its full-service pay-per-click (PPC) and self-service pay-per-post job advertising solutions. Simply Hired was founded in 2005 and is privately held with funding from Foundation Capital and IDG Ventures. For more information, visit www.simplyhired.com. | $3M | Series B | Jul 01, 2005 |  |
| Simply Hired | Simply Hired, a technology company based in Sunnyvale, California, operates job search engines in 24 countries and 12 languages. With more than 30 million unique visitors per month, the company provides job seekers access to millions of job openings across all job categories and industries, reaching job seekers on the web, mobile devices, email,and via thousands of partner sites including The Washington Post, Fox Business, Bloomberg Businessweek, Computerworld, International Nurses Association, and Hero2Hired. Simply Hired enables employers to efficiently and cost-effectively reach candidates searching for jobs through its full-service pay-per-click (PPC) and self-service pay-per-post job advertising solutions. Simply Hired was founded in 2005 and is privately held with funding from Foundation Capital and IDG Ventures. For more information, visit www.simplyhired.com. | $3M | Series B | Jul 01, 2005 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cardinal Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cardinal-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Globespan Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/globespan-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Olive Tree Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/olive-tree-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [RAA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raa-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Shea Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shea-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alpha Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpha-group-706c) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About 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.

5 contacts available at Canva.

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

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## FAQ

### What does Guy Kawasaki invest in?

Guy Kawasaki invests primarily in Internet, Apps and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Guy Kawasaki's check size?

Guy Kawasaki typically joins rounds of $450k–$525k at Seed, $1.5M–$5.6M at Series A and $3M–$12M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Guy Kawasaki participates in.

### When did Guy Kawasaki last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Guy Kawasaki closed in Nov 2021. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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