How Did Canva Start?

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Canva is a design platform that allows users to create designs for social media, marketing materials, presentations, and more. Canva was founded in 2012 by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, and Cameron Adams. The company is headquartered in Sydney, Australia. Canva has over 10 million monthly active users.

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Canva was started by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams in August 2012. The three co-founders were students at the University of Sydney when they started working on the idea for Canva. Canva’s first office was a tiny room in a shared co-working space in Sydney. The team grew quickly and today Canva is a global team of over 700 people with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, New York, Dublin and Manila.

Canva was created to make design simple for everyone. We believe that by empowering people with easy-to-use design tools, we can help them create beautiful designs for their everyday needs.

Over the years, Canva has become much more than just a design tool. We’re now a platform for creativity with millions of users in over 190 countries. And our mission remains the same: to make design simple for everyone.

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Canva was started by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams in 2012. prior to Canva, Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht co-founded Fusion Books, an Australian company that produced yearbooks for schools.

Cameron Adams, who has a background in web design, joined the team to help with the technical side of things. The three entrepreneurs noticed that there was a lack of easy-to-use design tools available online, so they decided to create their own.

Canva was originally built as a simple way for people to create designs for their yearbooks. However, the team quickly realized that the platform could be used for much more than that.

Since then, Canva has been constantly evolving. We’ve added new features, templates and integrations, and we now have over 10 million users from all over the world.