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Husband-Wife Team Worth $12 Billion After Latest Canva Funding Round
Melanie Perkins’s and Cliff Obrecht’s Australian startup Canva is valued at $40 billion.
Source: Canva
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It all began with millennial angst at user-unfriendly software.
While teaching design programs part-time in 2008 when she was at university in Perth, Australia, Melanie Perkins grew frustrated with the clunky desktop-based tools she was helping her students understand.