Canva announces dual acquisitions to accelerate AI and professional design roadmap

Canva, the global visual communication platform, has announced the acquisitions of MangoAI and Cavalry, two companies that further advance Canva’s long-term product roadmap by bolstering its AI and professional creative suite.

These acquisitions mark Canva’s fourth and fifth in the past two years, following Affinity (2024), Leonardo (2024) and MagicBrief (2025), as the company doubles down on building the world’s most comprehensive suite of visual communication tools. By bringing Cavalry and MangoAI into its unified design platform, Canva is accelerating its investment in the technologies and talent shaping the future of creativity.

Today, more than 265 million people use Canva, including teams at over 95% of the Fortune 500. Canva’s AI products have now been used more than 24 billion times, and in 2025 alone, more than 50 million new users joined the platform as visual communication becomes increasingly central to how teams work. The company also announced it closed 2025 with more than $4 billion in annualized revenue (up 36% year-over-year), more than 31 million paid seats, and strong free cash flow for the ninth consecutive year.

Cavalry: Bolstering Canva’s Professional Creative Suite

With the acquisition of Cavalry, the UK-based 2D animation platform trusted by top motion designers, Canva is advancing its push into professional-grade creative tools. This builds on the strong momentum and demand for Affinity, which has surpassed 5 million downloads since launching in October.

Created by animators, for animators, Cavalry makes 2D animation smarter, easier, and faster to produce. Joining Affinity’s comprehensive tools for photo, vector, and layout editing, the acquisition significantly expands Canva’s professional design suite into a fully interoperable solution for creatives. This removes the final barrier for creatives working across separate, expensive, and fragmented tools. 

Trusted by companies including Amazon, Meta, Google, and Netflix, Cavalry already powers some of the world’s leading creative and technology companies. Their team brings deep domain expertise in motion and animation. 

The acquisition of Cavalry marks Canva’s seventh Europe-based acquisition, joining Affinity (2024), Flourish (2022), Kaleido (2021), Smartmockups (2021), Pexels (2019) and Pixabay (2019). 

MangoAI: Accelerating Canva AI with Advanced Data Intelligence 

Canva has also acquired MangoAI, an early-stage US startup specializing in AI-powered creative optimization for video advertising. With more than 24 billion uses of Canva’s AI tools to date, the acquisition lays important foundations for brand-intelligent, personalized marketing and content creation workflows. 

MangoAI have built proprietary algorithms and a closed-loop reinforcement learning system for generating and launching effective video ads. Using ad platform reward signals, it automatically improves content, increasing performance and effectiveness while reducing the time and spend it takes to find what works. The acquisition builds on the creative intelligence capabilities added to Canva through the acquisition of MagicBrief last year, and will strengthen Canva Grow, the company’s suite of marketing intelligence tools.

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