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Canva
Canva is an online design platform with built-in AI tools that lets people and teams make graphics, presentations, videos, documents and websites from templates.
What Canva does
Canva gives users a browser and mobile editor with a large library of templates, stock media and brand tools for making social posts, slides, videos, print items and simple websites. It has added AI features that generate images, layouts and text, and since April 2026 agent-style tools that can run recurring design tasks. It also owns the Affinity professional design apps and several stock and AI companies, and sells team and enterprise plans to businesses.
ForCreatorsSmall businessesEnterprisesBrandsAgencies
Products
- Canva editorTemplate-based design for graphics, presentations, video, documents, print and websites.
- Canva AI 2.0Agentic AI tools, introduced in research preview in April 2026, that can schedule and carry out recurring design tasks.
- AffinityProfessional vector, photo and layout application; relaunched as one app with a free base version in October 2025.
- Canva app in ChatGPTLets users create designs inside ChatGPT; more than 26 million conversations by October 2025.
How it uses AI
- Agentic assistants that can schedule and perform design tasks in the background (Canva AI 2.0).
- A tool for building AI-generated mini apps and websites with more than 10 million monthly active users.
- Own design model that generates layouts with separately editable layers (October 2025); AI image generation from the acquired Leonardo.ai.
Milestones
- Canva founded by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams.
- Acquires AI image generation company Leonardo.ai.
- Employee share sale values Canva at $42B.
- Reports $4B ARR at end of 2025, 265M+ monthly users and 31M+ paid users.
- Canva AI 2.0 introduced in research preview.
- Cuts expected revenue growth rate to 20% after AI serving costs ran higher than planned.
- Restructure cuts about 1,270 jobs (22% of staff); Sydney becomes main base for product teams.
Sources
- Canva restructure to affect a fifth of its workforce ahead of Christmas (opens in a new tab), ABC News (Australia), 4 Nov 2026
- AI was supposed to power Canva's next act. It also exposed software's most expensive problem (opens in a new tab), Fortune, 12 Aug 2026
- Canva gets to $4B in revenue as LLM referral traffic rises (opens in a new tab), TechCrunch, 18 Feb 2026
- Canva's billionaire founders are minting overnight millionaires with employee share sale (opens in a new tab), Fortune, 22 Aug 2025
- Scheduling in Canva AI 2.0 (opens in a new tab), TechRadar, 16 Apr 2026
- Canva (opens in a new tab), Wikipedia, 5 Nov 2026