BWA | JUL 2026 17 Building Canva from a Classroom Frustration into One of Australia’s Most Influential Technology Companies ers and $3.5 billion in revenue, while also noting that Canva was now used by 95% of the Fortune 500. Those numbers tell only part of the story, but they are useful markers of just how far the business has stretched from its original core. Canva is no longer only for students, social teams and small creators; under Perkins, it has become a platform that now sits inside classrooms, startups, nonprofits and some of the world’s largest organisations at once. A large part of that current impact comes from the way Perkins has kept broadening the company’s ambition without abandoning the original mission of accessibility. The big recent example is Visual Suite 2.0, which Canva described in 2025 as one of its largest launches ever, designed to bridge productivity and creativity more tightly inside one platform. In 2026, the company pushed further with Canva AI 2.0, which it framed as its most significant product evolution since launch,
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