The Story of Canva: A Billion Dollar Startup Built on Democratizing Design

Canva is a platform for creating graphics for social media, presentations, posters, documents, and other visual content. Its Australian founder, Melanie Perkins, has a remarkable story, and her journey to success is something we’ll be talking about today. She started doing business by designing and selling scarves in her hometown when she was 14. Perkins was an entrepreneur at a young age. She pitched to more than a hundred venture capitalists, but was rejected by all of them. Canva's goal was to become the simplest way possible to design images with just drag-and-drop functionality.