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Canva has acquired two businesses, MangoAI and Cavalry, expanding its artificial intelligence and professional creative suite, the design company said in an announcement.
Previously, Canva added Affinity to bring professional photo editing, vector design and layout into its creative suite; the all-new Affinity has surpassed 5 million downloads since October.
Cavalry, based in the UK, brings a modern 2D animation and motion tool into Canva’s product set, closing a gap in motion design and reducing the need for fragmented workflows across multiple platforms.
MangoAI contributes data intelligence and reinforcement learning designed to link creative output with performance; its first product generated and launched video ads then learned from real-world results to improve subsequent content. Canva said the combination will strengthen the intelligence layer of its marketing products alongside MagicBrief.
Canva said it is hiring MangoAI co-founders into key roles: Nirmal Govind, former Vice President of Data Science & Engineering at Netflix, joins as Canva’s first Chief Algorithms Officer, and Vinith Misra joins Canva’s Research Lab as Reinforcement Learning Lead.
The recap
Canva acquires Cavalry and MangoAI to expand capabilities
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