Canva’s productivity push is starting to gain traction—and in Southeast Asia, it’s happening on phones

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Canva, the Australian design startup, says its users have created 4.5 billion presentations and 1.4 billion documents on the platform, some of the first hard numbers on how the company’s push into productivity software is going. Users create nearly 3,000 presentations and 1,000 documents every minute, the company announced on Thursday.

The startup, best known for helping users create social media graphics, is trying to carve out space in a market long dominated by Microsoft Office and Google Workspace.