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Canva is a global online visual communications platform on a mission to empower the world to design. It’s a simple way to create beautiful designs from presentations to infographics, videos, t-shirts, websites and social media graphics. Canva was founded by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams in 2012, before launching to the public in August 2013. From the very beginning we’ve had the crazy big goal of making design accessible to everyone. We’re leveling the playing field and democratizing access to design and visual communication by empowering 100% of the world to communicate in a way that was once limited to the 1%. Our community of users includes 230+ million monthly active users and 90% of the Fortune 500 embrace Canva to bolster productivity and achieve their goals. Our users are already creating over 280 designs per second, but we’re just 1% of the way to our mission of empowering the world to design. If you’re looking to design your dream career, have endless opportunities to grow, and work with a bunch of legends - come and join us.

We help our customers reach out to their target customers and fulfill their business objectives

Customers of our businesses use our innovation as a competitive advantage, relying on us to help them navigate in fast-paced, high-growth markets. For example, in-car technology, from infotainment to driver assistance, is accelerating the pace of new product development and changing the competitive playing field for automotive manufacturers. With a long-standing presence in automotive markets and a deep market expertise in electronics, we sit at the intersection of this fast-growing market. The breadth of our offerings provide strong strategic value to the end markets we serve.