Canva, Australia’s most high profile startup, has had a surge in users of its new product suite as it builds toward listing as a public company, one of its founders said.
Affinity, a group of software design tools, racked up around two million downloads in the two weeks after Canva made it free. Users with a paid account can use AI tools within the Affinity app.
“We’ve been blown away with the pickup so far,” Cliff Obrecht, Canva’s chief operating officer, said of the initial uptake of Affinity.
Closely held Canva, competing with firms such…
