Company
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Pixabay raised.
The transaction that ended Pixabay'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 | May 2019 | - | Startup Daily (18 Jun 2025), Forbes Australia (18 Jun 2025), Forbes Australia (30 Jul 2024), Startup Daily (26 Mar 2024), Forbes Australia (26 Mar 2024), SmartCompany (28 Aug 2023), SmartCompany (3 Feb 2022) |
Companies Pixabay acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming Pixabay. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
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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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.
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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