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Canva unveils its Creative Operating System, blending AI, design, and marketing tools into one platform to launch the era of imagination-driven creativity.
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Canva is launching new features like Forms, email design, and makes Affinity free for all users.
Although there has been significant pushback from artists regarding the proliferation of AI design tools and the content used to train generative models, the companies making the software for creative work are nevertheless building AI into their toolki…
Master bulk content creation with AI — six Canva courses for just $24.99 (reg. $120).
TechRepublic looks back at the biggest artificial intelligence stories of 2024, from Apple putting AI in phones to global governments weighing in.
Last year’s investor dreams of a strong 2024 IPO pipeline have faded, if not fully disappeared, as we approach the halfway point of the year. 2024 delivered four venture-backed tech IPOs, Reddit, Astera Labs, Ibotta and Rubrik, in March and April…
Airtree Ventures uses the secondary market to slim down its stakes while waiting for its portfolio companies to exit.
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Online graphic design platform provider Canva announced its acquisition of Affinity on Tuesday. The purchase adds tools for creative professionals to the Australian startup’s repertoire, presenting competition f…
Canva, the high-flying Australian design and visual communication startup, announced today it was acquiring Affinity (formerly Serif), a creative tools company based in the U.K. Bloomberg reported that the deal was worth several hundred million pounds …
Felicis, the 16-year-old Bay Area-based early-stage venture firm, has a reputation for investing globally. Indeed, firm founder Aydin Senkut — who spent a handful of years at Google as a product manager in its earlier days — was born in Tur…
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OpenAI also introduced ChatGPT Team, a collaborative workspace where company data can be shared with coworkers.
With Canva, generative AI hits different. In fact, it’s hard to imagine a better technology to boost Canva’s user growth and revenue generation.
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Make a QR code in Chrome, Adobe, ChatGPT Plus or one of the other options detailed.
A new study shows enterprises are gradually cutting down on unused software-as-a-service apps while increasing SaaS spending.
The post Shadow SaaS, changing contracts and ChatGPT adoption: SaaS trends to watch appeared first on TechRepublic.
Canva has been around since 2013, and has been a tremendously successful design platform, raising over $570 million and garnering 135 million users along the way. With that kind of traction, it makes a ton of sense to let developers tap into that user base and take advantage of the work that the company has […]
Canva introduces new developer tools and $50M investment fund by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch
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Revenge of the mutual funds by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch
Canva is introducing a series of new features, including a suite of AI-powered tools, and a new Brand Hub. The company unveiled the new features and tools during its Canva Create virtual event today. The company is launching Assistant, which lets users search for design elements, provides quick access to features. The tool can also […]
Canva unveils a series of new features, including several AI-powered tools by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch
Developing cutting-edge AI systems like ChatGPT requires massive technical resources, in part because they’re costly to develop and run. While several open source efforts have attempted to reverse-engineer proprietary, closed-source systems created by commercial labs such as Alphabet’s DeepMind and OpenAI, they’ve often run into roadblocks — mainly due to a lack of capital and […]
Stability AI, Hugging Face and Canva back new AI research nonprofit by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Felicis, a now 17-year-old, San Francisco- and Menlo Park-based venture firm, is announcing today that it has closed its ninth flagship fund with $825 million, compared with the $600 million core fund that it announced in the summer of 2021. The vehicle brings the firm’s total assets under management to exactly $3 billion, and it […]
Felicis funded 50% more deals last year than in 2021, some as prices were still rising — and it says it has no regrets by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch
Canva, the online graphic design platform, launched Canva for Campus today, a new paid subscription for universities and colleges. The subscription gives students, professors, staff and campus administrators access to Canva’s full suite of tools, such as professional and educational templates like reports, presentations and other documents, plus millions of stock images, videos, audio, infographics […]
Canva launches a new paid subscription for universities and colleges by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch
A clutch of startups is trying to topple Adobe’s dominance in three-dimensional modeling and do more than Canva. A freshly funded player is PixCap, which is entering the fray with a no-code, web-based 3D design tool. Founded in 2020, Singapore-based PixCap just secured $2.8 million from a seed funding round. It was part of the seventh […]
Singapore’s PixCap draws $2.8M to power web-based 3D design by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch
Some startups saw their valuations decline in 2021’s bull market, some were in line with the public market, and some haven’t declined at all.
Startup valuations are declining — but not consistently by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch
I love meeting startups that are making a tangible impact on the factory floor. While Shein applies a data-driven approach to improve efficiency for clothing manufacturing, Pacdora is doing something similar for packaging, from design all the way to production. Packaging sounds archaic and pretty removed from tech — and it is, which is why […]
Pacdora wants to be a ‘Canva + Figma’ for the $1 trillion packaging industry by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch
Because provides a “Canva-like” editing experience for e-commerce managers to design and publish messages aimed at driving conversion rates.