Last summer, Blackbird, one of Australia’s largest venture operations, marked down the value of one of its most prized stakes, in the Sydney-based design platform Canva. Valued at $40 billion […]
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Back to news homeAfter the Figma-Adobe deal, which design startups are acquisition targets?
News that creative software giant Adobe will buy upstart design software unicorn Figma for $20 billion was the single largest event in startup land this week, a surprise upset over […]
4 principles for building an MVP even if you can’t write a single line of code
Magnus Grimeland Contributor Coding is the new literacy — for years, people have been calling programming the X-factor that guarantees future success. It’s no surprise there is a widespread perception […]
Apple’s image cutout feature in iOS 16 is the most fun thing to come out of WWDC 2022
Out of all features Apple announced at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) last week, a new addition to Apple’s Visual Lookup system — a feature where you can “pick up” […]
8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22
Wicked fast VPNs, data organization tools, auto-generated videos to spice up your company’s Instagram stories … Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 open source founders have some interesting ideas up their sleeves. […]
Design’s dirty secrets and how to address experience bias
Howard Pyle Contributor Howard Pyle is the founder of ExperienceFutures.org, a nonprofit committed to building equity into digital experiences, and previously led brand-side design initiatives at MetLife and IBM. I […]
Facebook revamps its business tool lineup following threats to its ad targeting business
Facebook today is announcing the launch of new products and features for business owners, following the threat to its ad targeting business driven by Apple’s new privacy features, which now […]
Canva CEO Melanie Perkins will tell us about the journey to a $15B valuation at Disrupt
The design space has undergone major changes in the last decade. What once was dominated by a single player in Adobe has now become a burgeoning software landscape, with a […]
Getty Images leads $16M investment in Promo.com, a social video template tool
The social video tool Promo.com just raised $16 million in a Series B round led by Getty Images, the company synonymous with stock imagery. Brands, creators or whoever else might […]
Census raises $16M Series A to help companies put their data warehouses to work
Census, a startup that helps businesses sync their customer data from their data warehouses to their various business tools like Salesforce and Marketo, today announced that it has raised a […]