Canva adds video to its pro design toolset and steps up its enterprise play

Another week, another two acquisitions for Canva, the fast-growing visual design vendor that just closed 2025 on a $4 billion revenue run rate and is rapidly expanding its enterprise presence. Last Tuesday, it announced the acquisitions of MangoAI, a US-based startup that uses AI to automatically optimize video advertising on the fly by analyzing ad platform metrics, and Cavalry, a UK-based 2D animation platform that will complement the Affinity pro design tools that Canva acquired in 2024. On Thursday, I joined an analyst day at Canva's EMEA headquarters in London to find out more about the company's strategy for growing its enterprise market share.

Canva was founded in Australia in 2013 with a mission to democratize visual design, and having grown to a global user base of over 265 million monthly active users and more than 31 million paying seats, it's made huge strides towards fulfilling that ...