Canva Headquarters & Office Locations: Full 2026 Directory

Canva is headquartered at 110 Kippax Street, Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia — where the company was founded in 2013 by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, and Cameron Adams. Despite growing into one of the world's most valuable privately held software companies, Canva has kept its global HQ in Sydney and expanded internationally with a network of offices across four continents.

Where is Canva headquartered?

Canva's global headquarters is located at 110 Kippax Street, Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia. Surry Hills is an inner-suburb of Sydney, and Canva's campus there has expanded significantly over the past decade as the company grew from a small startup into a design platform used by over 185 million people monthly.

The Sydney HQ houses Canva's executive leadership, core product and engineering teams, and a significant portion of its design and brand operations. Melanie Perkins (CEO) and Cliff Obrecht (COO) both operate primarily from Sydney, which gives the Australian office unusual strategic weight for a company with such a large US customer base.

The building itself spans multiple floors and has been redesigned to reflect Canva's design-led brand — it's been cited in Australian business press as one of Sydney's more distinctive technology office fitouts. Canva has also occupied additional space in the Surry Hills area as headcount has grown.

What are all the Canva office locations worldwide?

Canva operates offices across six cities globally, with a mix of engineering hubs, commercial offices, and regional support centres. Here is the full 2026 directory based on the company's own published locations and job postings:

Sydney — the founding campus

Sydney remains the largest office by headcount and the centre of Canva's product organisation. The majority of Canva's senior engineering leadership, product managers, and design team are based here. It also houses the Canva for Education and Canva for Teams product lines.

Austin, Texas — North American commercial centre

Austin is Canva's primary US base for go-to-market activity. Following Canva's push into enterprise sales from 2022 onwards, Austin has housed a growing team focused on Canva Enterprise deals, mid-market account executives, and US marketing. The Austin office also coordinates partner integrations with tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, and Slack. Canva chose Austin over San Francisco partly for talent cost reasons and partly because several key hires came from Austin-based companies.

Manila — the second engineering hub

The Manila office has grown substantially since Canva established it in the mid-2010s. It now functions as a full engineering hub — not an outsourcing centre — with senior engineers, data scientists, and infrastructure teams. Many of Canva's trust and safety, content moderation, and localisation operations run from Manila.

How many employees does Canva have and where are they based?

Canva had approximately 4,500–5,000 employees globally as of 2025, though the company does not publish precise headcount breakdowns by office. Based on LinkedIn data and Canva's own job posting history, the distribution is roughly:

• Sydney: ~40–45% of total headcount (largest concentration)
• Manila: ~20–25% (second largest, primarily engineering and operations)
• Austin + San Francisco: ~15–20% (US commercial and enterprise)
• London: ~8–10% (EMEA commercial)
• Remote + other: remaining headcount, distributed globally

Canva has a significant remote workforce — a legacy of its pandemic-era hiring — and many senior roles are listed as "remote (Australia)" or "remote (US)" rather than tied to a specific office. This means the company's actual talent footprint is broader than its physical office locations suggest.

"We want to be a company that's built for the long term — and that means having teams close to customers in every major market, while keeping our core product culture anchored in Sydney."

— Melanie Perkins, CEO, Canva (Interview with The Australian Financial Review, 2024)

Why did Canva choose Sydney as its headquarters?

Canva chose Sydney because that's where it was founded — Melanie Perkins started the precursor company, Fusion Books, in Perth before moving to Sydney to build Canva. Unlike many fast-scaling tech startups that relocate to Silicon Valley after raising significant capital, Canva has deliberately kept its HQ in Australia.

This decision has been publicly defended by Perkins on multiple occasions. Her argument is partly cultural — Sydney allows Canva to compete for talent without the extreme compensation packages required in San Francisco — and partly strategic: staying in Australia keeps the founding team together and avoids the cultural dilution that often accompanies a headquarters move.

According to Startup Australia's reporting on Canva's growth, the company has been one of the most significant contributors to Sydney's emergence as a legitimate technology hub, alongside Atlassian (also Sydney-headquartered). Canva's decision to stay has had a measurable effect on the calibre of engineering talent willing to remain in Australia rather than relocate.

The broader Australian tech ecosystem has benefited from this: OECD data on innovation ecosystems consistently shows Australia punching above its weight in software startup formation, partly attributed to anchor companies like Canva and Atlassian proving that global-scale SaaS companies can be built and remain headquartered in Sydney.

What does Canva's office expansion mean for competitors in the design software space?

Canva's geographic footprint is a direct signal of where it's growing commercially. Its Austin and London offices are primarily sales and marketing operations — meaning those are the markets where Canva is most actively competing for enterprise and mid-market design software deals.

If you sell design tools, creative collaboration software, document editors, presentation tools, or marketing asset management platforms, Canva's expansion is directly relevant to your pipeline. The companies Canva is targeting in Austin, London, and San Francisco are likely also evaluating your product — or are already your customers and being pitched by Canva's growing enterprise sales team.

One practical approach: rather than waiting for Canva to poach your accounts, identify companies already using Canva at the team or department level before enterprise contracts are in place. These companies have validated the need for design tooling at scale, which means they're also candidates for adjacent products in your category. Tools like Stealery let you search for companies actively using Canva or any of its competitors — filtered by company size, location, and hiring signals — so you can build a targeted prospect list before Canva's enterprise reps get there first.

Is Canva planning to open new offices?

Canva has not publicly announced specific new office openings for 2026, but its hiring patterns point toward continued investment in three areas: Germany (Berlin or Munich, given EMEA enterprise ambitions), Singapore (as a Southeast Asia hub to complement Manila engineering), and expanded US presence in New York for enterprise financial services accounts.

The most reliable leading indicator of a Canva office expansion is its job posting volume in a given city. In the six months prior to establishing its Austin office as a formal commercial hub, Canva's job postings in Austin roughly tripled. The same pattern appeared before its London office grew substantially in 2021–2022.

For sales teams competing against Canva, this matters: a surge in Canva job postings in a new city typically precedes a 6–12 month ramp period where Canva's local sales team is actively building pipeline. That's your window to get into the accounts before Canva's reps are fully ramped.

What is Canva's Australia office address and contact information?

Canva's registered Australian office and global headquarters address is:

• Canva Pty Ltd
• 110 Kippax Street
• Surry Hills, NSW 2010
• Australia

Canva does not publish a general inbound phone number. Media and press enquiries are handled through their press portal at canva.com/newsroom. Enterprise sales enquiries are directed through canva.com/enterprise. Canva's Australian entity is registered with ASIC as Canva Pty Ltd (ABN 80 158 929 938).

The Surry Hills office is accessible via Sydney CBD transport — the nearest train station is Central Station, approximately a 10-minute walk. The office is not open to the public and does not accept walk-in visitors.