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    Melanie Perkings (Ceo Canva) : Before Long The Young Couple Was Winning Over Major Investors

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    Melanie Perkins founded Canva in 2013 after launching an online school yearbook website called Fusion Books in Australia. Through a chance encounter at a conference, she pitched her idea to investor Bill Tai who helped connect her to funding. Within a year, Canva had raised $1.5 million and launched their free online design platform. Today, Canva has helped create close to 2 billion designs in 190 countries and was valued at $3.2 billion after an $85 million funding round in 2019. Perkins plans to use the new funding to expand the team and develop paid enterprise services.

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    Melanie Perkins founded Canva in 2013 after launching an online school yearbook website called Fusion Books in Australia. Through a chance encounter at a conference, she pitched her idea to investor Bill Tai who helped connect her to funding. Within a year, Canva had raised $1.5 million and launched their free online design platform. Today, Canva has helped create close to 2 billion designs in 190 countries and was valued at $3.2 billion after an $85 million funding round in 2019. Perkins plans to use the new funding to expand the team and develop paid enterprise services.

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    Melanie Perkins founded Canva in 2013 after launching an online school yearbook website called Fusion Books in Australia. Through a chance encounter at a conference, she pitched her idea to investor Bill Tai who helped connect her to funding. Within a year, Canva had raised $1.5 million and launched their free online design platform. Today, Canva has helped create close to 2 billion designs in 190 countries and was valued at $3.2 billion after an $85 million funding round in 2019. Perkins plans to use the new funding to expand the team and develop paid enterprise services.

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    Melanie Perkings (Ceo Canva) : Before Long The Young Couple Was Winning Over Major Investors

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    Melanie Perkins founded Canva in 2013 after launching an online school yearbook website called Fusion Books in Australia. Through a chance encounter at a conference, she pitched her idea to investor Bill Tai who helped connect her to funding. Within a year, Canva had raised $1.5 million and launched their free online design platform. Today, Canva has helped create close to 2 billion designs in 190 countries and was valued at $3.2 billion after an $85 million funding round in 2019. Perkins plans to use the new funding to expand the team and develop paid enterprise services.

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    MELANIE PERKINGS (CEO

    CANVA)

    With few resources and just little


    experience the couple started small and
    created an online school yearbook called
    Fusion Books.

    Launched a website for students to


    collaborate and design their profile pages
    and articles; the couple then print the
    yearbooks and deliver them to schools
    across Australia.

    In 2010, while at a conference


    in Perth, Perkins received her
    first big break.

    A chance encounter with Silicon Valley


    investor Bill Tai saw him invite Perkins to San
    Francisco to pitch her idea.

    Tai was impressed and started


    connecting her with his contacts.

    Before long the young couple was


    winning over major investors.
    Building out Canva's design platform with a fast-
    growing team tech of tech engineers.

    2012 where the business began in earnest.


    With the help of their tech group including
    Lars Rasmussen, the CEO found a tech co-
    founder in Cameron Adams and a tech
    developer in Dave Hearnden.

    Months later, at the close of


    their first funding round, the
    company was oversubscribed.
    The following year on 2013, the site went live,
    allowing subscribers to create a variety of
    online designs for free.

    That initial $1.5 million investment was even matched


    by the Australian government in a bid to keep the
    company on Aussie shores.

    Today, Canva has helped create


    close to 2 billion designs in 190
    countries
    In October 2019, an $85 million funding round
    led by Silicon Valley investor Mary Meeker’s
    Bond Capital gave the company a valuation of
    $3.2 billion.
    Perkins said she plans to use the additional funding
    to expand the team of 700 across Sydney, Beijing
    and Manila, while also building out the company’s
    paid services, Canva Pro and Canva for Enterprise.

    INTEGRANTES: Daniela Celis y Luis Henao


    INTERNATIONAL ENTERPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION
    SEBASTIÁN
    NOGUERA

    HABI: THE NEW WAY TO BUY AND SELL HOUSES AND


    APARTMENTS
    THE BEGINNING

    The colombian START-UP have the name


    of HABI, has became the new unicorn.
    Founded on 2019 by Sebastián Noguera
    and the american Brynne McNulty.

    The company supports latinoamerican families


    for having the best choice of their lives: either
    buy or sell their houses or apartments quickly
    and safely.

    FIRST STEP

    First seed funding was achieved in 2019, a


    year later in 2020 we closed Series A and
    in 2021 we closed Series B with an
    investment of 100 million dollars headed
    by Softbank.

    2020-2021

    Between May of 2020 and the


    beginning of 2021 the
    transactions on the platform
    grew up close to the 40
    percent monthly.

    TUHABI

    Already in August 2021 he had


    made his incursion into the
    Mexican market under the
    name of Tuhabi.

    Five months later, he announced the acquisition of two


    companies, both with trajectories close to 10 years; .com
    properties, is in charge of the sale and lease of properties
    and TuCantón, a buyer of used housing in Mexico.

    In May 2022 it is valued at more than one billion dollars, becoming the second
    Colombian unicorn.

    2023 Tuhabi (Habi Mexico) obtains $400 million in financing from BBVA Spark; will
    strengthen the sale of used housing.

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