Canva is a free graphic-design tool website. The company was founded January 1, 2012 in Australia. The website rapidly became popular, with more than 750,000 users in its first year alone. Social-media and technology expert Guy Kawasaki joined the company as chief evangelist in April 2014.
Canva has an easy to use drag-and-drop interface and provides access to over a million photographs, graphics, and fonts. It is used by non-designers as well as professionals. The tools can be used for both web and print media design and graphics.
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The company has grown its user base to 2.3 million users over the course of the past 20 months. Over the last six months in particular, Canva's growth has been surging, with 65 percent of users signing up during the past six months.
Canva's users are heavily engaged as well, having created 3.2 million designs in the last month alone, and are crafting new designs at a rate of one design every second. To give you an idea about what users are building with this service, this year alone, users have created 1,398,955 Facebook posts, 1,326,195 social media graphics, 1,023,789 posters, and 867,684 presentations.