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Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Kaleido raised.
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 | - | 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) |
Companies Kaleido acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming Kaleido. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
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.
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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 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.
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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.
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