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Kaleido

visual AI company

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Who bought Kaleido

The transaction that ended Kaleido's run as a startup, per published coverage. It closes the funding history too, where it is the ladder's last rung.

Bought by	Kind	Announced	Price	Sources
Canva	Acquisition	Feb 2021 (recalled in later coverage)	-	Blackbird Ventures, Startup Daily (18 Jun 2025), Forbes Australia (18 Jun 2025), Forbes Australia (30 Jul 2024), TechCrunch Australia (29 Jul 2024), Startup Daily (26 Mar 2024), Forbes Australia (26 Mar 2024), Forbes Australia (23 Mar 2023), Startup Daily (23 May 2022), SmartCompany, TechCrunch Australia (2 Feb 2022)

What Kaleido bought

Companies Kaleido acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.

Company	Kind	Announced	Price	Sources
Kaleido is not recorded as having acquired anything.

Coverage

Stories naming Kaleido. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

Exit / M&A

The race is on

Blackbird partner Niki Scevak argues SaaS is not dead; winners will be companies that reinvent for AI, citing Canva's AI pivot and Kaleido acquisition, plus Heidi Health's new software category for doctors.

Blackbird Ventures portfolio 13 Feb 2026 a16z Adobe Atlassian Blackbird Ventures Canva Heidi Health HubSpot Kaleido Niki Scevak

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Exit / M&A

Canva acquires software platform Affinity in $500 million deal

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.

Forbes Australia 26 Mar 2024 Adobe Affinity Canva Flourish Kaleido Pexels Pixabay SlidesCarnival Smartmockups Cameron Adams

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Unnamed stage $279m

Canva acquires Flourish as it sets its eyes on European expansion

Canva buys UK data visualisation startup Flourish, its sixth acquisition, months after a US$200 million raise valuing it at US$40 billion, with Flourish's founders and staff joining Canva.

SmartCompany 3 Feb 2022 Canva BBC Deloitte Flourish Kaleido Moody's Pexels Pixabay Sky Smartmockups Zeetings Duncan Clark Melanie Perkins Robin Houston

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Unnamed stage $200m

Canva acquires Flourish in mission to tell better stories with data

Canva has completed its acquisition of London data-visualisation startup Flourish, adding 44 staff and 800,000 customers, after earlier 2021 purchases of Kaleido and Smartmockups; terms were undisclosed.

TechCrunch Australia 2 Feb 2022 Canva Deloitte Flourish Kaleido Smartmockups Cliff Obrecht Duncan Clark Melanie Perkins Robin Houston

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