Canva, the global visual communication platform, announced the acquisitions of MangoAI and Cavalry, two companies that further advance Canva’s long-term product roadmap by bolstering its AI and professional creative suite.

These acquisitions mark Canva’s fourth and fifth in the past two years, following Affinity (2024), Leonardo (2024) and MagicBrief (2025), as the company doubles down on building the world’s most comprehensive suite of visual communication tools. By bringing Cavalry and MangoAI into its unified design platform, Canva is accelerating its investment in the technologies and talent shaping the future of creativity.

Today, more than 265 million people use Canva, including teams at over 95 per cent of the Fortune 500. Canva’s AI products have now been used more than 24 billion times, and in 2025 alone, more than 50 million new users joined the platform as visual communication becomes increasingly central to how teams work. The company also announced it closed 2025 with more than $4 billion in annualised revenue (up 36 per cent year-over-year), more than 31 million paid seats, and strong free cash flow for the ninth consecutive year.

We’ve always believed creative tools should be accessible to everyone, and we’re seeing that reflected in how the design community is responding. Affinity has already surpassed four million downloads in just a few months. Now, with Cavalry joining Canva, we’re taking another big step toward helping professional designers break free from bloated and expensive tools, bringing everything from vector to motion design into one powerful creative suite.

 With the acquisition of MangoAI, we’re also doubling down on building powerful new products for marketing and creative teams. Building on MagicBrief, MangoAI’s algorithms and learning loops will power the next generation of our AI-driven marketing products, laying the foundations for a new era where performance data continuously improves and adapts creative in real time, said Cliff Obrecht, Co-founder and COO, Canva, said,

“Canva has built one of the world’s most impactful creative platforms. I’m excited to join the team and help shape how data, algorithms, and AI power personalised experiences across the product - supporting everyone from first-time creators to the most advanced teams,” said Nirmal Govind, Co-founder, MangoAI.

As part of the acquisition, MangoAI co-founder Nirmal Govind joins Canva as its first Chief Algorithms Officer, a newly created role reflecting Canva’s deepening investment across AI research, personalisation, and in-house model development. Formerly Vice President of Data Science & Engineering at Netflix, Nirmal brings over two decades of experience building large-scale machine learning and AI systems. He’ll lead personalisation and algorithmic experiences across Canva, working closely with Canva’s AI Lab to build the future of Visual AI. Co-founder Vinith Misra, formerly a Machine Learning scientist and leader at Roblox and Netflix, will also join Canva in the role of Reinforcement Learning Lead within Canva’s Research Lab.