Canva has announced the acquisitions of MangoAI and Cavalry, advancing its long-term roadmap across artificial intelligence, motion design, and professional creative tools.
The two deals represent Canva’s fourth and fifth acquisitions in the past two years, following Affinity (2024), Leonardo (2024), and MagicBrief (2025). Together, these additions strengthen Canva’s ambition to deliver an all-in-one visual communication ecosystem integrating AI, marketing intelligence, and professional-grade design tools.
Canva now serves more than 265 million users worldwide, including teams across over 95% of Fortune 500 companies. Its AI-powered features have been used more than 24 billion times, with over 50 million users joining in 2025 alone. The company also reported exceeding $4 billion in annualised revenue by the end of 2025, reflecting 36% year-on-year growth, alongside more than 31 million paid seats and nine consecutive years of positive free cash flow.
“We’ve always believed creative tools should be accessible to everyone, and we’re seeing that reflected in how the design community is responding. Affinity has already surpassed five million downloads in just a few months. Now, with Cavalry joining Canva, we’re taking another big step toward helping professional designers break free from bloated and expensive tools, bringing everything from vector to motion design into one powerful creative suite.
With the acquisition of MangoAI, we’re also doubling down on building powerful new products for marketing and creative teams. Building on MagicBrief, MangoAI’s algorithms and learning loops will power the next generation of our AI-driven marketing products, laying the foundations for a new era where performance data continuously improves and adapts creative in real time.”- Cliff Obrecht, Co-Founder and COO, Canva
The addition of Cavalry strengthens Canva’s push into high-end creative production, particularly in 2D animation and motion graphics. Built in the UK by animators for animators, Cavalry is trusted by major technology and media brands including Amazon, Meta, Google, and Netflix.
Cavalry’s integration complements Canva’s growing professional stack, alongside the Affinity suite, which has surpassed five million downloads since its October 2024 launch. Together, these tools span photo editing, vector illustration, layout design, and now motion graphics — reducing reliance on multiple software platforms and streamlining creative workflows.
“We built Cavalry to give motion designers a faster, more flexible creative playground suitable for the demands of modern production.
Canva’s platform and long-term vision make it a natural next chapter for our technology. Together, we have an incredible opportunity to redefine motion design, bringing smarter workflows that make animation more powerful, and far more accessible, to a new generation of creatives.”- Chris Hardcastle, Co-founder, Cavalry
Cavalry co-founders Chris Hardcastle, Ian Waters, and Adam Jenns will join Canva to contribute to its professional product strategy. The acquisition becomes Canva’s seventh Europe-based deal, joining Affinity (2024), Flourish (2022), Kaleido (2021), Smartmockups (2021), Pexels (2019), and Pixabay (2019).
Canva’s acquisition of MangoAI enhances its capabilities in AI-powered creative optimisation, particularly for video advertising. The US-based startup specialises in reinforcement learning systems that continuously improve ad performance by analysing reward signals from advertising platforms.
This move builds upon the marketing intelligence foundation established through MagicBrief and will enhance Canva Grow, Canva’s suite of marketing performance tools. The integration is designed to enable more personalised, performance-driven creative workflows for brands and enterprise teams.
“Canva has built one of the world’s most impactful creative platforms. I’m excited to join the team and help shape how data, algorithms, and AI power personalised experiences across the product – supporting everyone from first-time creators to the most advanced teams.” – Nirmal Govind, Co-founder, MangoAI
As part of the deal, Govind will join Canva as its first Chief Algorithms Officer, overseeing AI research, model development, and personalisation initiatives. MangoAI co-founder Vinith Misra will join Canva’s Research Lab as Reinforcement Learning Lead.
With these acquisitions, Canva continues consolidating design, animation, and AI-powered marketing capabilities within a single platform, reinforcing its focus on professional creators, enterprise teams, and the future of scalable visual communication.
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