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London
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Flourish raised.
The transaction that ended Flourish'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 | 6 Feb 2022 | - | Startup Daily (Wed 18 Jun 2025), Forbes Australia (Wed 18 Jun 2025), Techboard (Fri 2 May 2025), Forbes Australia (Tue 30 Jul 2024), Techboard (Fri 3 May 2024), Startup Daily (Tue 26 Mar 2024), Forbes Australia (Tue 26 Mar 2024), Startup Daily (Mon 7 Feb 2022), Startup News (WA), Startup Daily (Thu 3 Feb 2022), SmartCompany, TechCrunch Australia |
Companies Flourish acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Robin Houston | Founder | Startup News (WA), Startup Daily, SmartCompany, TechCrunch Australia |
| Duncan Clark | CEO · Founder | Startup News (WA), Startup Daily, SmartCompany, TechCrunch Australia |
Stories naming Flourish. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Techboard's first state-level review analyses Western Australia's 2023 startup raises and the March 2024 quarter, highlighting Rumin8, Vitruvian and RealtyAssist deals alongside gender-diversity and per-capita findings.
Canva has bought creative software maker Affinity, once Serif, for a reported US$380 million (A$582 million), gaining about three million users and a 90-person team and sharpening its position against Adobe.
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Canva has completed its acquisition of London data-visualisation startup Flourish, adding 44 staff and 800,000 customers, after earlier 2021 purchases of Kaleido and Smartmockups; terms were undisclosed.
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