{"id":42157,"date":"2023-10-20T15:19:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/inside-the-deal-canva-co-founder-and-investor-talk-about-how-their-partnership-came-together-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:19:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:19:09","slug":"inside-the-deal-canva-co-founder-and-investor-talk-about-how-their-partnership-came-together-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/inside-the-deal-canva-co-founder-and-investor-talk-about-how-their-partnership-came-together-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the deal: Canva co-founder and investor talk about how their partnership came together &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"255\" height=\"156\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/l_talkthing-255.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"l_talkthing-255\"><\/div>\n<p>Canva co-founder Melanie Perkins and Blackbird Ventures managing director Rick Baker shared how their investment partnership emerged at a Silicon Dragon network event in Sydney last week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The online design platform <a href=\"technology\/canva-design-platform-launches-worldwide\/2013082610562.html\">launched<\/a> just over a month ago, and already has 80,000 registered users. The team raised $3 million prior to launch from a range of investors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Perkins, whose first investor was Silicon Valley-based <a href=\"financing-a-business\/bill-tai-dissects-his-australian-investment-decisions\/2013092410793.html\">Bill Tai<\/a>, talked about how she approached the pitches, how it\u2019s evolved over time, and how she positioned Canva to be an attractive investment opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Baker shared why they were happy to break <a href=\"financing-a-business\/venture-capital\/blackbird-venture-capital-update-and-tips-500-start-up-applications-and-nine-deals-later\/2013110711121.html\">their investment rules<\/a> for Canva, and how the relationship works now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canva co-founder Melanie Perkins and Blackbird Ventures managing director Rick Baker shared how their investment partnership emerged at a Silicon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}