Canva's Melanie Perkins has already started giving away her fortune Melanie Perkins started a business with now husband Cliff while at university READ MORE: I'm one of Australia's richest people: Here's why I refuse to send my kids to a private school By Cameron Carpenter For Daily Mail Australia Published: 02:00, 31 October 2024 | Updated: 02:14, 31 October 2024 e-mail View comments Australia's fifth richest woman, who first made money selling spray-on tattoos at a Perth fair, now leads a multinational tech powerhouse worth more than Woodside, Rio Tinto and Woolworths . Melanie Perkins' DIY graphic design platform, Canva, is now valued at more than $48.7billion following several secondary share sales, an increase from its previous valuation of $39billion in April, making it one of Australia's most valuable companies.
Perkins, 37, and her co-founder and husband, Cliff Obrecht, 38, each own about 18 per cent of the company, which is now poised for a much-anticipated public listing. 'It's been an extraordinary year for all of us at Canva as we celebrate remarkable growth and increasing demand for our business,' Mr Obrecht said. 'We're really excited to be empowering more than 200 million people in 190 countries with the simplicity, access, and power of our product.
'While we're incredibly proud of the progress we've made, we're just getting started and we're looking forward to a whole lot more to come.' Canva's paying customers increased 38 per cent year-on-year to 22 million w.
