The 32-Year-Old Founder of Startup Canva Gets $3.2 Billion Value
- Sydney-based Canva plans to double workforce in coming year
- Focus on scaling up through expanded enterprise offering
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Australian online design platform Canva Inc. today announced it has raised $85 million, led by Mary Meeker’s venture capital firm, bolstering its valuation to $3.2 billion.
That makes the company, co-founded by 32-year-old Chief Executive Officer Melanie Perkins, one of the most valuable female-led technology startups in the world. The investment comes five months after Meeker, a popular figure in Silicon Valley for her annual internet trends report, picked Canva as the first investment by her new VC firm Bond Capital. That financing had more than doubled Canva’s valuation to $2.5 billion at the time, and now Bond is coming in for more and leading the latest funding round.