What is Canva? Canva Review

Canva is a multi-platform (Web, MoBILe, Mac, Windows) online graphic design software with a huge amount of image materials. Canva supports team collaboration, provides image materials and design templates, and can design posters, banners, business cards, invitations and other designs through simple drag and drop operations.

About Canva

Canva, an online graphic design platform, was founded in 2012 and supports more than 100 languages. To date, nearly 80 million users from more than 180 countries have chosen Canva. On average, 20 designs are created through Canva every second.

Currently, Canva has offices in Silicon Valley, USA, Sydney, Australia, and Manila, Philippines. Its market value exceeds US$1 billion, approximately RMB 6.5 billion. Its founder Melanie Perkins has also become the youngest unicorn-level female entrepreneur.

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Canva has more than 1 million images, fonts and other materials. Team users can use the advanced features of the Canva platform by paying a monthly fee of US$12.95 or a one-time annual fee of US$9.95 per month, including saving design works to different folders, automatically adjusting the size of design works to share with others on social media, and sharing designs and collaborating with larger teams.

Canva also has a design marketplace where designers, illustrators and photographers can put their works on the market, and Canva users can purchase and use these works for only $1.

Instructions

Canva provides different design modes according to different needs of users, such as social network stickers, PPT, posters, Facebook covers, and Instagram pictures. Users choose the appropriate mode according to their needs, and then Canva will provide the corresponding templates to choose from. For each picture design, Canva will guide users to design the corresponding layout, background and text. If users don’t like it very much, they can also search in Canva’s resource library online, including picture materials, icons, chart materials, etc. Of course, users can also upload their favorite pictures for editing.

Canva China Edition

Beijing Kava Information Technology Co., Ltd. founded Canva.cn in 2018. Canva China has quickly become the leading online design platform in China since its launch. Using the high-quality image materials and free design templates provided by Canva, users can design design works suitable for various scenarios, including presentations, posters, banners, resumes, etc., by simply dragging and dropping. Canva also provides commercially available copyrighted images and Chinese fonts for individual and corporate users.

Canva has always adhered to its mission of empowering everyone in the world to design, constantly breaking the boundaries of design. It has not only become a cross-platform friendly (Web, Mobile, Mac, Windows, etc.) online graphic design software, but also continuously optimized for local innovation in China, online collaboration among enterprise users and personal user experience.

Development History

-In August 2013, Canva launched the BETA version and received a good response.

In 2013, Canva raised $3 million in seed funding from Matrix Partners, InterWest Partners, 500 Startups and numerous angel investors.

In July 2014, Canva announced the “Canva Button”, a simple plugin for third-party websites that allows users to create their own graphics.

-In August 2014, Canva opened an office in Manila.

-In October 2014, the number of users exceeded one million.

-In November 2014, Canva launched the Design Academy and Design Marketplace, where users can learn design in the Academy and purchase other people's works in the Design Marketplace.

-In April 2015, Canva completed a $6 million angel round of financing led by Felicis Ventures.

-In October 2015, Canva announced that it had successfully obtained US$15 million in Series A financing.

-In 2018, Canva received a US$40 million Series C financing led by Sequoia China, with participation from Felivis Ventures and Blackbird Ventures.