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Is Canva the Company That Will Disrupt the Design World? Not Quite

crowdSPRING Blog

It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. The latest funding valued the startup at $345 million, more than double the company’s $165 million valuation a year ago. Microsoft Office.

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Is Canva the Company That Will Disrupt the Design World? Not Quite

crowdSPRING Blog

It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. The latest funding valued the startup at $345 million, more than double the company’s $165 million valuation a year ago. Microsoft Office.

Design 48
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Is Canva the Company That Will Disrupt the Design World? Not Quite

crowdSPRING Blog

It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. The latest funding valued the startup at $345 million, more than double the company’s $165 million valuation a year ago. Microsoft Office.

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8 Big Startup Myths That Hold Entrepreneurs Back From Success

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You don’t have to look far to find evidence that we’re in another prolonged startup boom. This trend continued in 2017 , and all signs suggest that 2018 will have similar startup growth. But the more new businesses there are, the more old, often untrue ideas about startups propagate. This is good news. That’s a lie.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

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Add to this regular angels becoming “super angels” — a much-mocked phrase for when someone goes from investing their own money to investing institutional funds. Essentially they became micro-VCs, still investing at the seed level but with much greater resources behind them. A name like 500 Startups says it all.