{"id":642716,"date":"2026-05-01T12:35:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642716\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:35:46","slug":"leonardo-ai-founders-pour-canva-money-into-side-stage-ventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642716\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo AI founders pour Canva money into Side Stage Ventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The founders of artificial intelligence image-generation start-up Leonardo AI have joined a group of tech entrepreneurs backing one of its earliest investors, Side Stage Ventures, two years after selling their company to Canva for $US250 million ($349 million).<\/p>\n<p>Side Stage Ventures has secured $40 million for its second fund, which it intends to close at $50 million. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/trailblazer-jj-fiasson-on-ai-art-and-life-under-canva-20250519-p5m0fm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leonardo AI co-founders JJ Fiasson<\/a>, Christopher Gillis, Jachin Bhasme, Peter Runham and Sami Ede have invested in the new fund.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The founders of artificial intelligence image-generation start-up Leonardo AI have joined a group of tech entrepreneurs backing one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-642716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642716","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=642716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}