Kaleido co-founder and CEO, Benjamin Groessing, added an interesting tidbit of info, which is that the Austrian company has never raised a dime in funding, and has been profitable from day one.Īlso joining Canva’s ecosystem of apps and integrations is Smartmockups based in a small city in the Czech Republic.įounded in 2016 by Lukáš Zajíc and Andrew Nekvinda, Smartmockups lets people quickly create realistic design mockups ranging from t-shirts to flyers, mugs, books, magazines and devices. Kaleido is the company behind remove.bg and Unscreen, which remove backgrounds from photos and videos, respectively, with the click of a button.įollowing the deal, Canva-owned Kaleido plans to recruit an additional 30 employees in Vienna to continue servicing clients such as The New York Times, Samsung and Alibaba. The first one, Austrian startup Kaleido, will enhance Canva's platform with new integrations for advanced photo editing and AI-driven automation tools, to try and turn it into a 'one-stop-shop for every design need'. With a community of more than 40 million users across the globe, online design platform Canva has made not one but two acquisitions in Europe, picking up both Vienna-based Kaleido AI and Librec, Czech Republic-based Smartmockups.
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