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.