{"id":598895,"date":"2026-04-10T23:44:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598895\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T23:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:44:23","slug":"canva-buys-simtheory-and-ortto-in-big-ai-push-as-blackbird-reaps-big-payday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598895\/","title":{"rendered":"Canva buys Simtheory and Ortto in big AI push as Blackbird reaps big payday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canva has acquired two local artificial intelligence companies as it attempts to shore up its capabilities ahead of a potential public listing.<\/p>\n<p>The purchase of Simtheory and Ortto takes to eight the number of AI companies the design software giant has acquired since 2024 at a cost of more than $400 million. Canva was last valued at $US42 billion ($60 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>correction \u2014<\/p>\n<p>An earlier version of this article referred to brothers Chris and Mike Starkey. This has been corrected to Chris and Mike Sharkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canva has acquired two local artificial intelligence companies as it attempts to shore up its capabilities ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-598895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}