Canva is a free-to-use online design and publishing platform founded in 2013 and headquartered in Sydney, Australia. Its drag-and-drop tool allows users with little or no design experience to create social posts, presentations, posters and other visual content. The company states a mission to empower the world to design anything and publish anywhere, with an emphasis on making design accessible to non-experts at work, school and in their communities.
Technical work at Canva spans drag-and-drop web design tools, template systems, stock media libraries, collaboration software and SaaS design tooling, all serving a single visual communications platform. Beyond the core product, the company maintains expanded template and stock media collections drawn on within the platform, and has added collaboration functionality over time to support teams and shared creation while keeping the user experience simple.
The platform reports over 30 billion designs created and millions of users worldwide, up from an earlier milestone of hundreds of millions of designs. Canva serves students, professionals and everyday creators across education, business productivity and social media and marketing content creation, and works with a wide global partner network. What began as a Sydney-based startup now operates globally.
