It’s not true, Canva is not an Indian company. The company is an Australian multinational software company that is with its headquarters within Sydney, Australia. The company was established in 2013. Canva is an online platform for graphic design that lets users create various kinds of visual content including Social Media graphics, PowerPoints posters, videos websites, and much more. The platform comes with a myriad of options, including a drag-and-drop, stock photos templates, and AI tools.

Canva’s core product offerings include Canva Free/Pro/Teams/Enterprise, Magic Studio, Canva for Education/Non Profits and Visual Suite 2. It is accessible on Android, iOS and Windows devices that support over 100 different languages. Canva runs on a no-cost model.

Company History

Canva was established on January 13, 2013 with Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams. The platform went live in August 2013 and has since gained more than 750,000 customers within the first year. In 2014 Canva launched its mobile app for Android as well as iOS operating systems. Additionally, it increased its templates library.

Canva introduced its service for professionals, Canva For Work, in the year 2015. In 2017, Canva was profitable, boasting 294,000 paid customers. Its user base grew to 10 million users across the globe in 179 countries. In the year of 2018 the company introduced Canva Education for teachers.

In 2020, Canva had 30 million active users per month with a value of $6 billion. Video editing tools were released by the company during the same year. Canva introduced Magic Write which is an AI-powered assistant for copywriting in December 2022.

Current Status

Canva is used by more than 220 million users. It’s available in 190 countries and can be used to create designs that are available in over 100 different languages. It has helped to develop more than 30 billion designs to the present. Canva generated a revenue that was $2.7 billion by 2024. This is a rise over $1.5 billion by 2023. Its main products include Canva Free, Pro, Teams and Enterprises.

Recent releases by Canva includes Visual Suite 2.0, released in 2025. The platform combines software powered by AI, management tools for multi-formats, and real-time collaboration to improve workflows for multiple uses, including education, marketing and sales.

Future Outlook

Canva hopes to achieve 250-300 million active users per month in 2027. In order to achieve this goal the company is looking to expand its reach into emerging markets like India, Southeast Asia and Latin America. Canva is expected to earn $4-5 billion in revenue in 2027.

Canva is set to broaden its AI suite of products with more recent technologies like advanced automation for workflows as well as dynamic AI and design that is predictive.