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Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Kaleido raised.
The transaction that ended Kaleido's run as a startup, per published coverage. It closes the funding history too, where it is the ladder's last rung.
Companies Kaleido acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming Kaleido. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Blackbird partner Niki Scevak argues SaaS is not dead; winners will be companies that reinvent for AI, citing Canva's AI pivot and Kaleido acquisition, plus Heidi Health's new software category for doctors.
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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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Canva has acquired Austrian AI startup Kaleido.ai and Czech mockup tool Smartmockups for undisclosed sums, adding AI and automation capability, and announced monthly active users have doubled to 50 million.
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