Angel investor · Chief Product Officer · Founder, Canva
Every published round Cameron Adams took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.
Companies Cameron Adams has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fingerprint For Success | 3 Feb 2023, Seed | 1 | 0 | |
| Sumday | Mar 2023, Pre-seed | 2 | 0 | |
| SunDrive | 13 Oct 2022, Series B | 1 | 0 | |
| The Good Car Company | 2 Feb 2023, Accelerator | 1 | 0 | |
| Who Gives A Crap | 20 Sep 2021 | 1 | 0 |
Fund closes reported for Cameron Adams, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies Cameron Adams has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Cameron Adams did.
Stories naming Cameron Adams. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Canva is pushing productivity tools like Docs and Sheets to win enterprise subscribers from Microsoft and Google, while slowing its AI rollout to control costs and trimming its revenue growth forecast.
Weekly roundup: Constantinople raises $62.5m; Blackbird wraps fund six above $1b; Guardhouse buys Mobohubb; SCX.ai debuts on the ASX; plus seed rounds, exits and executive changes across the ecosystem.
Perth solar-glass maker ClearVue has signed a $600,000 subcontract to fit Canva's new Sydney headquarters, converting May's preliminary agreement, shortly after a $6.25 million capital raise.
Interview with Canva co-founder Melanie Perkins on the release of Canva AI 2.0, its agentic and memory features, and Anthropic's Claude Design launch, which builds on the two companies' partnership.
Enterprize Tasmania has appointed Brian Collins, deputy chair of FinTech Australia and co-founder of fintech fund Triple Bubble, as CEO, with the ten-year-old organisation seeking national and global reach for the state's startup ecosystem.
Weekly roundup of eight raises totalling $572.12 million, led by Firmus's $500 million round; RAGE Biotech, SunDrive, Number 8 Bio, Fabra, Keeyu, MyGig and Drone-Hand also funded, plus two RAGE Biotech executive appointments.
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Canva launched an employee share sale valuing the design software firm at $42 billion, led by Fidelity with JPMorgan's asset arm joining, ahead of a planned IPO; US rival Figma listed last month.
A Forbes Australia writer demos Veo 3, Google's AI video model with synchronised audio, now offered inside Canva, with Canva executives and a Google product director discussing the feature, safeguards and usage figures.
Canva has hired Zoom finance chief Kelly Steckelberg as its new CFO, nine months after Damien Singh's exit, as the design software firm weighs a US float.
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Women's Agenda interview with Canva co-founder Melanie Perkins on her SXSW Sydney conversation with investor Mary Meeker, covering Fusion Books, Silicon Valley rejections, and the early backers who funded the design platform.
Canva is set to buy Sydney AI startup Leonardo.Ai for an undisclosed sum; the piece also recalls Leonardo's $47 million 2023 raise with Blackbird and Canva's earlier $1 billion Serif purchase.
Opinion piece on the buzz around a musical number promoting Canva's enterprise offering at its Los Angeles event, noting cofounder Cliff Obrecht's approval, huge viewership and the company's US listing ambitions.
Weekly roundup detailing funding rounds by five Australian and New Zealand startups: a diversity analytics platform, a thermal energy storage maker, a carbon accounting service, an activated carbon producer, and legal communications software.
Sumday, a Tasmanian startup making carbon accounting tools, has closed a seed round to fund UK and US expansion, with Planeteer Capital leading and Blackbird, Wedgetail and Canva's Cameron Adams taking part.
Canva has bought creative software maker Affinity, once Serif, for a reported US$380 million (A$582 million), gaining about three million users and a 90-person team and sharpening its position against Adobe.
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Canva is turning a purchased Sydney office tower into its eighth global campus, with headcount up by more than a thousand; the piece recalls its fund for paying creators whose content trains its AI.
Weekly roundup covering nine Australian startups' new capital totalling $40.5 million, across solar, quantum computing, marketing tech and crowdfunding, plus a look back at Aconex's $1.6 billion Oracle sale.
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Canva launched Magic Studio, ten generative AI tools bundled into existing subscriptions at no extra cost, alongside a royalty program for creators and an enterprise security platform.
SmartCompany marks a decade of Canva, recounting its Perth origins, the money it raised, its acquisitions of two stock-photo sites, and Blackbird's sale of Canva shares.
Weekly roundup of six Australian startups that together raised $114.5 million, spanning payments, drone defence, carbon accounting, medical AI and health tech, across rounds from pre-seed to Series D.
Fingerprint for Success, an AI coaching platform, has closed a $6.5 million second seed round led by Investible, with Canva's founders investing again; its lifetime funding now totals $9.2 million.
Fingerprint for Success, maker of AI coach Marlee, raised $5 million in an Investible-led seed round, lifting total funding to $9 million, with participation from Five V Capital, Salesforce Ventures and several high-profile angels.
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ARENA has awarded $2.78 million to a University of Sydney professor partnering with SunDrive on perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells. The piece also recalls SunDrive's $21 million Series B and names its backers.
Weekly roundup reporting nine Australian startups that together secured roughly $104 million across sports tech, semiconductors, regtech, legal automation, SaaS, edtech, agtech and biotech, with Vald's $36 million the largest.
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Roundup of six Australian startups that together secured about $196 million this week, covering raises by Airwallex, SunDrive, T-Shirt Ventures, Iluminr, Foodini and Banksia Academy.
Solar cell maker SunDrive has raised a $21 million Series B led by Main Sequence Ventures, with CEFC, Grok and Blackbird investing, and first-time backers including Turnbull, Denholm and Adams.
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Boundless, Mike Cannon-Brookes' philanthropic venture, has put $10 million into Tasmanian used-EV seller The Good Car Company, while Canva co-founder Cameron Adams and Lisa Miller separately invested $1 million to widen affordable electric vehicle access.
A year-end roundup profiling the ten most valuable unicorns of 2021, recalling each company's major funding round, investors and valuation, from ByteDance and SpaceX to Canva and Chime.
Toilet paper social enterprise Who Gives A Crap has taken its first outside capital, a $41.5 million round led by Verlinvest with Grok Ventures, Airtree, Giant Leap and prominent founders and athletes involved.
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