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Canva
Consumer Services · Sydney, Australia · Founded 2012 Decacorn
Collaborative design platform for creating visual content
Canva mafia
Startups founded by Canva alumni
Former Canva employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Alexey MitkoAustralia
JJ FiassonAustralia
Jean SiniUnited States
Casey WintersUnited States
Michael SuAustralia
Josh GrahamUnited Kingdom
Christian IaculloUnited States
Xavier Ekkel.Australia
Nick ManksAustraliaGlobal footprint
Where Canva has talent and traffic
(31 of 15,004 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$15M patent portfolio · 115 active families
Where Canva concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Canva and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Canva's 18 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Canva appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2018–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
18 deals across Canva's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Canva deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
Canva's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Canva
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Canva on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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