Company

Cavalry

Investor	Rounds	Invested
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Who bought Cavalry

The transaction that ended Cavalry'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	Feb 2026	-	Startup Daily (Fri 17 Apr 2026), Startup Daily (Thu 9 Apr 2026), SmartCompany (Thu 9 Apr 2026), SmartCompany (Thu 26 Mar 2026), Startup Daily (Wed 25 Mar 2026), Startup Daily (Mon 2 Mar 2026), Startup Daily (Tue 24 Feb 2026), Skalata Ventures

What Cavalry bought

Companies Cavalry acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.

Company	Kind	Announced	Price	Sources
Cavalry is not recorded as having acquired anything.

Coverage

Stories naming Cavalry. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

2 deals

Canva's AI acquisition spree continues, with two more startups from the Stayz founders

Canva has bought AI agent platform Simtheory and marketing software Ortto from the Sharkey brothers, who also founded Stayz — its fourth and fifth purchases this year, prices undisclosed.

Startup Daily Thu 9 Apr 2026 Ortto Simtheory Affinity Canva Cavalry Doohly Fairfax Media Leonardo.Ai Magic Brief Mango.AI Nine Salesforce Ventures Southern Cross Venture Partners Stayz Blackbird Ventures Chris Sharkey Cliff Obrecht

Exit / M&A

Canva paints itself as an AI work platform with Simtheory, Ortto acquisitions

Canva has bought Sydney AI startup Simtheory and marketing automation firm Ortto, its fifth and sixth acquisitions in ten months, as it repositions from design tool to AI workplace platform; no prices disclosed.

SmartCompany Thu 9 Apr 2026 Anthropic Atlassian Canva Cavalry DeepSeek Doohly Google Leonardo.Ai Magic Brief Mango.AI OpenAI Ortto Simtheory Chris Sharkey Cliff Obrecht

Also Startup Daily·Startup Daily·This Week in Australian Startups

Funding announcement

Canva splashes $30m on Melbourne advertising start-up

Design software company Canva has acquired Melbourne adtech firm Doohly for $30 million, a deal that hands windfalls to the startup's founders and shareholders Skalata Ventures and Archangel Ventures.

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