Singapore – Canva has acquired MangoAI and Cavalry, expanding its artificial intelligence capabilities and professional creative tools as it moves to become a comprehensive visual communications platform for marketers, teams, and designers.
The acquisitions strengthen Canva’s position across both intelligent marketing technology and professional creative production.
MangoAI enhances Canva’s AI-driven marketing capabilities, while Cavalry adds advanced motion design tools to its growing professional suite.
MangoAI brings expertise in data intelligence and reinforcement learning, enabling marketers to connect creative output with measurable performance. Its technology allows content such as video advertising to be generated, tested, and optimised using real-world results.
Former Netflix vice president of data science and MangoAI co-founder Nirmal Govind will join Canva as its first chief algorithms officer, leading personalisation and algorithmic experiences across the platform.
Cavalry adds professional-grade motion graphics capabilities, enabling brands and creative teams to produce animation and dynamic visual content within the Canva ecosystem.
Combined with Canva’s earlier acquisition of Affinity, the platform now covers photo editing, layout design, vector creation, and motion production, forming a full creative suite for professional workflows.
The expansion reflects Canva’s strategy to evolve beyond a design tool into a unified creative and marketing platform, integrating content production with data-driven optimisation.
Motion design has become central to brand storytelling across digital channels, while AI-powered tools are increasingly used to scale marketing content.
By integrating MangoAI and Cavalry, Canva aims to provide marketers and designers with a single platform that combines creative production, automation, and performance insights.
MangoAI co-founder Vinith Misra also joins the company’s research lab as reinforcement learning lead, supporting the development of new AI-driven marketing products.
