Canva Revenue, User and Growth Stats (2024)

Key Canva user stats. Includes data on employees, revenue, funding (and investing) history and more.

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August 01, 2024

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Canva Key Facts (Top Picks)

Canva was founded in 2012 by Melanie Perkins, Clifford Obrecht, and Cameron Adams.
Canva became widely known in its first year of launching, with 750,000 users.
Canva has a library of over 75 million stock photos, illustrations, and icons.
As of October 2022, Canva has 5 million paying subscribers.
In 2018, Canva was awarded the #1 best place to work in Australia.
The creators of Canva worked previously on fusion books.
Canva has more than 60,000 free templates available.
For its employees’ lunch, the co-founder of Canva, Cliff Obrecht used to make sandwiches.
Since their college days, Cliff Obrecht and Melanie Perkins were dating.
Melanie is one of the most successful young people in Australia today. She ranks at number 17 on the 2018 Young Rich List from Australian Financial Review, which highlights the country’s wealthiest young people. Melanie has achieved a great deal of success at a young age, and she is only going to continue to grow her wealth in the years to come. She is an inspiration to other young entrepreneurs, and she is proof that anyone can achieve their dreams if they’re willing to work hard.
According to Forbes, Melanie Perkins is worth $6.5 billion as the CEO of Canva.
Canva receives 300,000 job applications a year
Canva’s Australian operations have been carbon neutral since 2020. As of 2021, their entire global operations, including print and subsidiaries, are also carbon neutral.
Canva’s Australian operations are running on renewable energy
For every print order, Canva plants a tree

Source: Canva, AFR, tldevtech, Forbes

Canva: Company Overview (About)

Canva was started as a graphic design software and private company in January 2013 in Sydent, Australia by three founders.

Below you can see more details about Canva, at a glance:

Sources: Forbes, Canva

How many employees work at Canva?

Canva currently has around 2,500 employees. The company hired 1,350 new members crossing the 2,000-employee mark. In 2019, Canva’s employee number was just 700.

Infographic about Canva's number of employees

Sources: CNBC, Forbes, AFR

Canva Revenue

This graph shows you how Canva’s revenue went from less than a billion USD in 2017 to over $1 billion USD in 2021.

In fact, Canva’s revenue constantly grew throughout these years without stopping.

Sources: SMH 1, SMH 2, TechCrunch

Canva Funding History

Canva has raised a total of $572.6M in funding over 14 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Sep 14, 2021 from a Venture – Series Unknown round.

Source: Crunchbase

Canva Valuation

By valuation, we’re talking about how much Cavna is estimated to be worth as a business.

Hence, Canva’s valuation also saw a really great expansion. It went from nothing in 2016 to almost $40 billion USD in the 2021.

It is estimated that Canva’s valuation will go even higher in the next years.

Source: Crunchbase

Canva Investments

Did you know that Canva invested in Calven?

On February 28, 2022, Canva invested $4.2M in Calven to build out its workplace experience platform for a world of hybrid work.

Source: SmartCompany

Canva Acquisitions

Aside from Calven, Canva has also acquired 6 other companies throughout the years.

2018: Zeetings acquired by Canva
2019: Pixabay acquired by Canva
2019: Pexels acquired by Canva
2021: Kaleido acquired by Canva
2021: Smartmockups acquired by Canva
2021: Flourish acquired by Canva

Source: Crunchbase

How many users does Canva have?

Canva Number of users:

January 2014: 150,000 users
June 2014: 600,000 users
October 2014: 1 million users
April 2015: 2 million users
August 2015: 4 million users
July 2019: 30 million monthly active users
September 2021: 60 million monthly active users
October 2022: more than 100 million monthly active users

Canva has also noted:

April 2015: 3,600 new daily and ~110,000 monthly new users
October 2022: 5 million paying users

Sources: Kickstartsidehustle, Canva

Canva Users Demographics by Age

Here’s a full breakdown:

30% of Canva active users accounts are people aged 18-24
34% of Canva active users accounts are people aged 25-34
17% of Canva active users accounts are people aged 35-44
10% of Canva active users accounts are people aged 45-54
16% of Canva active users accounts are people aged 55-64
3% of Canva active users accounts are people aged 65+

Source: SimilarWeb

Canva Users Demographics by Gender

At the moment, Canva is slightly more popular among women with:

55% of Canva female users
45% of Canva male users

Source: Fortune, SimilarWeb

Top Countries Using Canva

These are the top countries that are using Canva

Source: similarweb

Where is Canva available (which countries)?

Canva is almost available in every country in the world. Canva is available in:

190 countries

Source: Canva

Where is Canva not available (which countries)?

Of the 190 countries, there are 5 countries where Canva is not available. This maybe due to restrictions in the usage of the internet or Canva blocked the country’s access itself. These are the two out of 5 countries where Canva is not available:

Russia: Canva exits in June 2022
North Korea: internet is limited to a small number of Korean Elites which are then limited to military and government businesses.

Source: Canva, freedomhouse. analyst1

Where are Canva’s offices located at (which countries)?

Canva has 1 headquarters and 7 key locations:

Source: Canva

Where are Canva’s offices located at (which cities)?

Canva offices are located in the following cities:

Sydney
Auckland
San Francisco
London
Beijing
Wuhan
Vienna
Manila
Liberec

Source: Canva

Time spent using Canva

As of November 2022, the average time spent using Canva is:

00:06:56

Source: similarweb

Infographic about user's time spent using Canva

Canva Mobile App Statistics: Android vs iOS

These are the key stats and key info on Canva’s mobile app on Android as of October 2022:

These are the key stats and key info on Canva’s mobile app on iOS as of October 2022:

Source: Crunchbase, GooglePlay, TechCrunch, AppleStore

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How many designs are being created through Canva?

As of December 2021, there were 8 billion designs created in Canva! Can you believe that number?

How many designs are created through Canva per year?

Below you’ll find detailed info about the designs created throughout the years:

2016: 138 million designs were created
2019: 2 billion designs were created
2020: 2 billion designs were created
2021: 3.5 billion designs were created

Source: Canva 1, Canva 2, Canva 3

Graph about designs created through Canva per year

How many designs are created in Canva per month throughout the years?

2019: ~130 million plus designs per month were created
2020: ~166 million plus designs per month were created
2021: ~292 million plus designs per month were created

Source: Canva 1, Canva 2, Canva 3

How many designs are created in Canva per minute throughout the years?

2019: ~3,100 designs per minute were created
2020: ~3,800 designs per minute were created
2021: ~6,600 designs per minute were created

Source: Canva 1, Canva 2, Canva 3

How many designs are created in Canva per second throughout the years?

2019: 50 designs per second were created
2020: 63 designs per second were created
2021: 101 designs per second were created

Source: Canva 1, Canva 2, Canva 3

How many available templates are there in Canva?

Canva number of available templates:

~250,000 free templates
~410,000 premium templates

Source: Canva 1, Canva 2

What are the top industries that are using Canva?

The top industries that are using Canva with 500 companies as a sample are:

28.4% of the companies using Canva are from Higher Education industry
13.0% of the companies using Canva are from Non-profit Organization industry
12.2% of the companies using Canva are from Marketing and Advertising industry
9.8% of the companies using Canva are from Information and Technology Service industry
9.0% of the companies using Canva are from Education Management industry
6.4% of the companies using Canva are from Computer Software industry
5.4% of the companies using Canva are from the Retail industry
5.4% of the companies using Canva are from the Internet industry
5.4% of the companies using Canva are from the Real Estate industry
5.0% of the companies using Canva are from Religious Institution industry