Which entrepreneur co-founded Canva in 2013 with Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams?

Melanie Perkins co-founded Canva in 2013 with Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams.

Perkins developed the idea for Canva after noticing that design software was difficult for many students to learn. Before Canva, she and Obrecht created Fusion Books, an online service that allowed Australian students to design school yearbooks. That earlier venture provided practical experience in browser-based design tools.

Canva was built as an online graphic-design platform with templates, drag-and-drop tools, and collaborative features. Adams, a former Google employee, joined as the technical co-founder. The service aimed to let people create presentations, posters, social-media graphics, and other visual materials without advanced design training.

Canva is sometimes described as a simple template website, but its business expanded into team collaboration, visual communication, and workplace design tools. Perkins became one of Australia’s best-known technology entrepreneurs, while Obrecht and Adams remained central to the company’s founding story.