Welcoming MangoAI and Cavalry as we expand our AI capabilities and professional creative suite

TL;DR:

• Canva has acquired Cavalry and MangoAI, expanding our professional creative suite and AI capabilities.
• MangoAI strengthens Canva’s suite of content marketing products, with former Netflix VP of Data Science Nirmal Govind joining as Canva’s first Chief Algorithms Officer.
• Cavalry brings professional-grade motion design into the Canva ecosystem, joining Affinity, this creates a full creative suite for professional designers covering photo, layout, vector, and now motion editing.

Since 2013, we’ve been on a mission to empower the world to design. But as the world becomes more visual and technology becomes more powerful, the way we create and communicate is fundamentally changing. At Canva, we’ve been steadily expanding beyond an everyday design tool into the most comprehensive platform for visual communication, built for teams, creators, and professional designers alike.

Today, we’re accelerating that evolution even further with the acquisitions of Cavalry⁠(opens in a new tab or window) and MangoAI⁠(opens in a new tab or window): expanding our professional creative suite and deepening our AI and marketing capabilities. Together, Cavalry and MangoAI strengthen both sides of modern creativity: intelligent systems that make content smarter, and powerful tools that give professionals greater control.

Building a full-stack creative ecosystem for professionals

In 2024, we welcomed Affinity⁠(opens in a new tab or window) to Canva, bringing professional photo editing, vector design, and layout into our growing creative suite. Last year, we launched the all-new Affinity⁠(opens in a new tab or window), and since October, it has surpassed five million downloads, a clear signal that designers are looking for an alternative to expensive and fragmented legacy tools.

Affinity has built an incredible creative suite covering photo, layout, and vector editing... but one important piece was missing from the puzzle. Today, we’re completing it with the acquisition of Cavalry. Based in the UK, they’ve built a modern 2D animation and motion tool loved by professional designers across the globe.

Motion has become foundational to how brands communicate, from product launches and social campaigns to AI-powered storytelling and enterprise marketing. Yet for many teams, advanced motion design remains the final barrier that forces fragmented workflows across multiple platforms.

By bringing Cavalry alongside Affinity⁠(opens in a new tab or window), we’re closing that gap and unlocking a complete professional suite spanning photo, vector, layout, and now motion editing. Together, these tools form the foundation of a full-stack Creative OS for professional work, while preserving the depth and control professional creatives rely on.

We’re thrilled to welcome Cavalry’s founders and team to Canva. Their expertise in professional motion workflows remains central to the product’s direction, and will help shape the future of professional animation within Canva’s growing creative ecosystem. For a deeper look at what this means for motion designers, read more here⁠(opens in a new tab or window).

Deepening our intelligent marketing products

Over the past year, our community has embraced AI in extraordinary ways. Our AI tools have been used more than 24 billion times to generate presentations, transform documents, create videos, and scale content across every channel.

But the next frontier of AI isn’t just about speed. It’s about intelligent systems that learn from performance, understand context, and continuously improve content. That’s why MangoAI is such an important addition to Canva.

MangoAI brings deep expertise in data intelligence and reinforcement learning, with technology designed to connect creative output directly to performance. Their first product was designed to help generate and launch video ads, then learn from real-world results to automatically improve what comes next, enabling teams to focus on the ideas that drive real impact.

Together with MagicBrief⁠(opens in a new tab or window), this strengthens the intelligence layer of Canva, connecting insight, performance, and creation in a continuous loop. The combination of both companies will power the next evolution of our products for marketing and creative teams.

In joining forces with MangoAI, we’re thrilled to welcome Nirmal Govind, former Vice President of Data Science & Engineering at Netflix, to Canva as our first Chief Algorithms Officer. Nirmal brings over two decades of experience building large-scale machine learning and AI systems. He’ll lead personalisation and algorithmic experiences across Canva, working closely with Canva’s AI Lab to build the future of Visual AI.

We also welcome Vinith Misra to Canva’s Research Lab as Reinforcement Learning Lead. Drawing on his extensive experience at Netflix and Roblox, Vinith will play a key role in shaping the next generation of AI experiences and marketing products across our platform.

Shaping the next chapter of visual communication

In a world where motion is central to modern storytelling and AI has reshaped how ideas move from concept to impact, the possibility for visual communication is endless.

We can’t wait to show you what we’re building together.

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