Since launching in 2013, Canva has more than 190 million monthly users around the world, and has achieved the milestone of more than $2 billion in annualized revenue. From presentations to videos and websites, more than 25 billion designs have been created with the platform (280+ every second) across more than 190 different countries and in over 100 different languages. In the last couple of years, as millions of people around the world embraced a hybrid way of working, Canva experienced its biggest period of hypergrowth yet and continues to go from strength to strength thanks to a global team of more than 4,500 people. In 2021, Canva became one of the most valuable private software companies in the world. Individual creators, small businesses, teams and the Fortune 500 are embracing the power of design, photos, collaboration features, videos and even sound to cut through the noise and achieve their goals using Canva. Melanie first came up with the idea for Canva while studying a Bachelor of Arts (Communications/Psychology) and Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing and Management) at the University of Western Australia. At the time, she was teaching design programs to fellow students. After seeing students struggle, she created her first company Fusion Books which took the idea of a simple design tool and applied it to the niche market of school yearbooks. Over five years, Fusion Books grew to be the largest yearbook company in Australia, and expanded into France and New Zealand. Having known all along that the technology Melanie had developed could be applied more broadly, she set out to raise funding for Canva. After hundreds of revisions to the Canva pitch deck, Melanie has now raised millions from investors including Google Maps co- founder Lars Rasmussen, Yahoo! CFO Ken Goldman, and funds such as Bond, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures and Blackbird