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27 articles decelerating

Canva has appeared in 27 articles since 2019-05. Coverage peaked in 2024Q3 with 4 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Adobe, Australian, Affinity, Figma.

Articles
27
mentions
Velocity
-33.3%
growth rate
Acceleration
-0.833
velocity change
Sources
12
publications
The Moats That Moved
The same week a widely shared analysis argued LLMs are "dismantling the moats that made vertical SaaS defensible," Figma reported 40% revenue growth and partner...

Coverage Timeline

2024-03-27
The Verge 10 related

Affinity and Canva publish a joint pledge promising to keep Affinity's design software “fair, transparent, and affordable”, including its “perpetual licenses”

After Canva's acquisition of Affinity design software sparked concern regarding the future …

2024-03-26
Bloomberg 17 related

Canva acquires Affinity, popular with Mac users for its photo editing and other tools, to take on Adobe, Canva's COO says for “several hundred million pounds”

- Australian unicorn buys British team behind Affinity art suite  — Affinity offers alternative tools to Adobe's flagship products

2024-01-02
The Information

Sources: Canva nears a deal to let longtime staff and investors sell $1B+ in stock to new investors at a $26B valuation, about the same as in a 2023 share sale

Design software startup Canva is nearing a deal that lets longtime employees and investors at the company sell more than $1 billion …

2021-02-23
Bloomberg 1 related

Australian online design service Canva says it has 50M MAUs and has acquired Austrian visual AI startup Kaleido.ai and e-commerce startup Smartmockups

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

TEXXR tracks 39 Techmeme articles mentioning Canva, dating back to October 2015. The biggest stories include OpenAI announces apps that work inside ChatGPT, piloting Booking.com, Canva, Coursera,... and Canva debuts Canva AI, which lets users generate images, design ideas, and documents, and.... Frequently covered alongside Adobe, Melanie Perkins, Affinity, Microsoft, and Figma. Coverage has shifted toward research themes and away from enterprise, funding.

Key Moments

2024Q3enterprise -10pts; safety +17pts; developer -14pts
2025Q2enterprise -33pts; safety -17pts; developer +100pts
2025Q3enterprise +50pts; developer -50pts; consumer -50pts

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