Canva’s Obrecht says firm eyeing IPO in 'next couple of years'Canva was last valued around $42 billion in a share sale. Cofounders Obrecht, Melanie Perkins, and Cameron Adams recently brought in former...
22 Nov, 2025, 07.56 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: Is Google’s Nano Banana AI better than OpenAI’s Sora, Adobe's Firefly, others?Nano Banana is an image generation and editing model built into the Gemini app. Nano Banana enters a crowded field of generative AI tools. ...
14 Sep, 2025, 04.37 PM IST
Canva begins share sale at $42 billion valuation in road to IPOAustralian design software startup Canva has launched an employee stock sale. The company's valuation is now at $42 billion. This marks a s...
20 Aug, 2025, 09.37 AM IST
Hitchcock for beginners: A step-by-step guide to his 5 most iconic moviesThis is a beginner’s guide to understanding the cinematic mastery of Alfred Hitchcock, known as the Master of Suspense. Through five iconic...
27 Jul, 2025, 10.36 PM IST
Anthropic’s Claude AI can now generate Canva designs from text promptsThrough Canva's integration with Claude, users can generate visual content, resize images, and autofill brand templates without leaving the...
15 Jul, 2025, 04.58 PM IST
Forbes unveils 50 richest self-made women of 2025: China and Hong Kong lead, US follows, tech dominatesForbes' 2025 ranking highlights the world's richest self-made women, with China and Hong Kong leading with 18 entries, followed by the U.S....
04 Jul, 2025, 12.42 AM IST
$202 billion and 11% of Australia’s GDP: Meet the top 10 billionairesThe Australian Financial Review's 2025 Rich List reveals Australia's wealthiest, with the top 10 holding $202 billion, a 9.2% decrease from...
29 May, 2025, 01.13 PM IST
Digital payments set Diwali record; ED raids Flipkart, Amazon sellersHappy Friday! Digital payments spiked during the festival of Diwali. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
08 Nov, 2024, 08.36 AM IST
Canva is leveraging its Facebook India communities to build deeper inroadsIndia is Canva’s fifth-largest market with around 139 million presentations created in the last one year and tools like the photo backgroun...
08 Nov, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
A quarter of hits & a few misses; and other top tech, startup storiesWelcome to another edition of ETtech Unwrapped – our weekend newsletter. This is Pranav Mukul in New Delhi. This week we’ve wrapped up anot...
25 May, 2024, 09.03 AM IST
India is our fifth largest market; one of the fastest growing: Melanie Perkins, CEO, CanvaDesign software startup Canva considers India as a big market due to the rising smartphone use and booming creator economy in the country. ...
24 May, 2024, 10.21 PM IST
Google’s $350-million Flipkart bet; Canva CEO interviewEcommerce major Flipkart has closed its nearly $1-billion funding round with Google coming on board. More on this in today’s ETtech Top 5.
24 May, 2024, 07.59 PM IST
India big market for Canva; looking to build local team there: CEO Melanie PerkinsIndia is the fifth largest market for Canva, which is bullish on the country's burgeoning creator economy, having doubled its growth betwee...
24 May, 2024, 10.11 AM IST
Zerodha’s Nikhil Kamath to donate 50% of his wealth“I am committed to positively impacting the world. The mission of creating a more equitable society aligns with my values and aspirations’’...
08 Jun, 2023, 08.58 AM IST
It took Melanie Perkins 100+ rejections over 3 years (& some faith!) to give life to design platform CanvaThe Australian design platform was founded by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, and Cameron Adams in 2013.
13 Jul, 2022, 03.30 PM IST
The 32-year-old founder of startup Canva gets $3.2 billion valueAt 19, Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht became launched their design platform, Fusion Books. In 2013, Cameron Adams joined them and co-fou...
17 Oct, 2019, 03.13 PM IST
Canva sets sights on 1 million user base in India by 2016India has become the fourth-largest market for us. We already have 1,50,000 users in India who have created more than one million designs i...
13 Oct, 2015, 10.17 PM IST