Australia’s largest venture capital firm, Blackbird, told its investors at a closed-door briefing on Monday that its flagship portfolio company Canva is ready for an IPO in the second half of 2026.
Drumbeats around a Canva IPO have been growing louder each week, though the company has been famously tight-lipped on any concrete details around dates.
Only a few days ago, Canva co-founder Cliff Obrecht told Bloomberg in a TV interview that the long-awaited public listing was “probably imminent in the next couple of years, that’s for sure”.
The comments from Canva’s earliest and largest investor that it is ready for a mid-2026 listing, should it choose to proceed, represent the most promising indication yet that the IPO will take place next year.
