Melanie Perkins
Co-founder & CEO @ Canva
Sydney, Australia
Melanie Perkins is a seed investor at Canva in Sydney focused on Software and Productivity Tools. Melanie Joy Perkins is the Co-Founder and CEO of Canva. She attended University of Western Australia.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Melanie Perkins invests in
Stages Melanie Perkins invests in
Countries Melanie Perkins invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$4.4M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 1 (33%)
- Productivity Tools 1 (33%)
- Personal Development 1 (33%)
- Predictive Analytics 1 (33%)
- Artificial Intelligence 1 (33%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (33%)
- Series A 1 (33%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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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! | $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 |
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 Melanie Perkins invest in?
Melanie Perkins invests primarily in Software, Productivity Tools and Personal Development startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Melanie Perkins's check size?
Melanie Perkins typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$4.4M 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 Melanie Perkins participates in.
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When did Melanie Perkins last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Melanie Perkins closed in Feb 2023. Shizune tracks 3 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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