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Canva has been profitable for eight consecutive years.
Canva's complete front-end codebase rewrite, which was initially estimated to take six months, ultimately took two years to complete, during which the company was unable to ship new features.
In the last year, over $1.4 trillion, representing 1.3% of global GDP, was processed through the Stripe platform.
Canva has approximately 240 million monthly active users.
One hundred million people use Canva to design presentations each month.
Canva's co-founders, Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht, have committed their 30% equity stake in the company to philanthropic efforts through the Canva Foundation.
The Canva Foundation has donated $50 million to GiveDirectly, an organization that provides direct cash transfers to people in extreme poverty in Malawi.
The Canva Foundation has announced plans to donate an additional $100 million over the next four years to support people living in extreme poverty.
Canva provides $1.5 billion worth of its paid product for free annually to users through its education and nonprofit programs.
Canva is launching new products including an email design tool and a forms creation tool.
Canva operates on a 'two-step plan': first, build one of the world's most valuable companies, and second, do the most good possible with that value.
Canva is launching a new AI-powered collaboration feature where users can tag '@canva' in comments to request design edits, with the AI using the design's context to perform the task.