Global tech giant Microsoft is taking on Canva with a new free graphic design app in Microsoft 365. A web preview of the Designer app is already available for early use, with the company’s corporate VP, Liat Ben-Zur, saying the app is born out of PowerPoint, where Designer uses AI to make template suggestions as you… Read more »
Big news dropped this week – Brisbane based video editing platform, Clipchamp, was acquired by Microsoft. The following is part of a lovely note sent out to all shareholders by one of the founders, Alex Dreiling, when trying to use my own words as an intro – I failed to find better words, so I am using… Read more »
Global software giant Microsoft is acquiring Queensland video startup Clipchamp. Described as “Canva for video” by Steve Baxter, one of Clipchamp’s many investors, the 8-year-old venture helps people make videos using its in-browser platform quickly and easy. Microsoft is one for the more than 17 million users of Clipchamp, which counts Google, Deloitte, Dell and… Read more »
Video editing subscription startup Clipchamp – think Canva for moving images – has raised $13.2 million in a Series A as it pushes into the US market. The round was led by Seattle VC firm Tola Capital with support from Steve Baxter’s syndicated investment platform, TEN13, and existing investors. Tola Capital partner Aaron Fleishman will… Read more »
It’s a startup with the potential to turn into unicorn, according to one of the country’s highest profile investors, Steve Baxter, who’s just led a $1 million seed round in Brisbane video platform Clipchamp, with the former Shark Tank shark declaring it “Canva for video”. Canva, the Sydney graphic design startup founded by Mel Perkins… Read more »
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