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Canva: 42 billion dollars, 3.3 billion of annualised revenue, and a listing it keeps contemplating

By Unicorn Private Research. Published and last updated 26 September 2026.

Key takeaways

Canva is a profitable, founder-controlled Australian software company that has never needed to sell control to grow, and its valuation history is a useful correction to the idea that private marks only go up. It was marked down in 2022 from a peak of 54.5 billion Australian dollars, then rebuilt past it.

How the price was set

FigureWhat it isSource and date
42 billion US dollarsValuation implied by a secondary share sale at 1,646.14 dollars a share, led by FidelityStartup Daily, 20 August 2025
48.7 billion Australian dollarsPrior mark, about six weeks earlierJuly 2025
54.5 billion Australian dollarsEarlier peak, before the 2022 markdown2021
3.3 billion US dollarsAnnualised revenue at the time of the saleStartup Daily, 20 August 2025

The August 2025 sale was reported as significantly oversubscribed, with JP Morgan Asset Management among the new names joining. An oversubscribed secondary is a stronger signal than a primary round, because the buyers are taking existing paper at a set price rather than funding a plan.

The business behind the number

At 3.3 billion US dollars of annualised revenue the valuation is roughly 13 times sales, which is modest next to the other companies on this site and reflects a product sold largely to small teams and individuals rather than to enterprises. More than 240 million people use Canva each month, and the company reported its artificial intelligence features being used more than 20 billion times.

The competitive question is Adobe, and the comparison the market now uses is Figma, whose listing gave the design software category a public reference point it did not have before.

What a buyer is taking on before a listing

Exposure before a listing

Canva runs periodic secondary sales, which makes it one of the more accessible names in this group, and also means the price is set at intervals rather than continuously. Unicorn Private buys secondary positions in established private technology companies at this stage, where there is revenue, a product in wide use and a plausible route to an exit, rather than funding companies at the stage where most fail. With Canva the discipline is about the age of the mark being paid against.

The short answer

Canva was valued at 42 billion US dollars by an oversubscribed secondary sale in August 2025, on 3.3 billion dollars of annualised revenue and 240 million monthly users. A 2026 listing has been discussed and not filed. The main caution for a buyer is that the documented price is now more than a year old.

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About the publisher

This guide is published by Unicorn Private Research, the research arm of Unicorn Private LLC, a Delaware private equity firm that acquires secondary stakes in late-stage private technology companies before their IPO. The firm invests only in established companies already valued above one billion dollars, not in early-stage start-ups, and its founders have been active in private equity and startup investing since 2005.

Unicorn Private is the first firm in the pre-IPO secondary market to create an open and entirely free research centre in nine languages: guides, a tracker of the largest private technology companies, a glossary, and a frequently asked questions section, free to read at no cost, with every figure carrying a date and a link to a public source.

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Sources

  1. Canva gives itself a $65 billion valuation, closing in on Atlassian, Startup Daily, 20 August 2025
  2. List of unicorn startup companies, Wikipedia
  3. Private market update, September 2026, Forge Global
  4. How unicorns know when an IPO is the right strategic option, EY