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If you’ve spent any amount of time looking for image editing options on the web, chances are you’ve stumbled across Canva. In a field packed with an enormous number of competitors, Canva has, over the years,\u00a0stood out for its versatile and varied offerings. And the popularity has come with financial rewards too — Canva has just become Australia’s first tech unicorn.<\/span><\/p>\n

Canva is now valued <\/a>at more than a billion dollars after raising a $40 million (Rs. 250 crore) from Sequoia Capital and existing investors. This means that the\u00a0graphic design firm is now Australia’s first tech unicorn. Canva said it didn’t really need the latest investment, but found the offer too good to refuse.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019d be crazy not to take it,\u201d said co-founder Melanie Perkins. \u201cWe can grow our team as rapidly as we can and know that we\u2019ve got the financial backing to make those decisions very easily.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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It’s been an impressive journey for Canva, which was founded just over five years ago in July 2012. Perkins had been teaching graphic design programs at university and found students struggled to learn the basics. Along with co-founder Cliff Obrecht, she launched Fusion Books,\u00a0an online design tool that made it easy for students and teachers to create their own yearbooks. They soon realized that the technology they’d developed could be used much more broadly, and launched Canva with tech co-founder\u00a0Cameron Adams. The company, back then, operated out of Perkins’ mum’s living room.<\/span><\/p>\n

It wasn’t easy going. “For us, it was three years between meeting our first investor and actually landing investment,” said<\/span> <\/a>Perkins. Canva eventually raised a seed round worth $3.6 million (Rs. 22 crore) from big-name investors including Matrix Partners and 500 Startups.\u00a0By 1st January 2013, Canva already had 150,000 users, and\u00a0was attracting some big names too — former Apple Chief Evangelist Guy Kawasaki joined\u00a0Canva\u00a0as its Chief Evangelist.\u00a0Over the next 10 months, Canva grew 6x, and reached a million users.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today Canva has over 10 million users from more than 180 countries across the world, and 100 million designs have been created on its platform. Apart from offering its design software, which has free and paid versions, Canva also runs a design marketplace where professional designers can share their creations and earn royalties, and even a design school where people can learn design skills. It also has a Canva-for-work offering, through which organizations can make use of its software.<\/span><\/p>\n

And Canva is among the few startups that makes a serious amount of money — even before it became a unicorn, Canva had annual revenues of $18 million (Rs. 117 crore). In the year ending June 2017, the company had made losses of $3.3 million (Rs. 21 crore), but has since turned profitable. With its latest funding, Canva plans to double its workforce of 250, and says there’s still a long way to go.\u00a0“I’ve never met a start-up that’s had overnight success,” says Perkins.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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