--- title: Canva lays off over 1,200 people amid slowing growth description: Canva is cutting 22% of its staff, about 1,271 people, as growth slows for the first time in a decade. CEO Melanie Perkins called it the company's 'hardest... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/canva-lays-off-over-1-200-people-amid-slowing-growth-mtagxfyfc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Canva lays off over 1,200 people amid slowing growth | daily.dev og:description: Canva is cutting 22% of its staff, about 1,271 people, as growth slows for the first time in a decade. CEO Melanie Perkins called it the company's 'hardest... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/canva-lays-off-over-1-200-people-amid-slowing-growth-mtagxfyfc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MTagxFYfC.png og:image:alt: Canva lays off over 1,200 people amid slowing growth og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Canva lays off over 1,200 people amid slowing growth **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Canva is cutting 22% of its staff, about 1,271 people, as growth slows for the first time in a decade. CEO Melanie Perkins called it the company's 'hardest year yet' in a note to employees. Canva is merging its product, growth and platform teams, reducing subspecialization, and shifting to hybrid office work. The company cut its revenue growth forecast from 30% to 20% to address ballooning AI costs, and early investors cut its valuation to about $35 billion earlier this year. Canva also faces increasing competition from AI startups and general-purpose chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How many employees did Canva lay off and what percentage of staff does that represent Canva cut 1,271 employees, representing 22% of its workforce. CEO Melanie Perkins described it as the company's hardest year yet, noting that growth slowed for the first time in a decade after thirteen years of expansion since its founding. _Developers tracking tech industry layoffs follow company-level cuts like this on daily.dev._ ### Why did Canva cut its revenue growth forecast Canva cut its revenue growth forecast from 30% to 20% to address ballooning AI costs, despite building its own AI models to reduce reliance on third-party providers. This forecast cut also led early investors to lower Canva's valuation to about $35 billion. _Anyone weighing AI infrastructure costs against growth targets can follow cases like Canva's on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Canva’s backers cut $7.1bn from its valuation, and its own valuer cut more](https://daily.dev/posts/canva-s-backers-cut-7-1bn-from-its-valuation-and-its-own-valuer-cut-more-ic9nogxge) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [GitLab cuts 14% of staff as it scales its platform to serve AI workloads](https://daily.dev/posts/gitlab-cuts-14-of-staff-as-it-scales-its-platform-to-serve-ai-workloads-5kwekrf0x) · TechCrunch · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Canva acquires startups working on animation and marketing](https://daily.dev/posts/canva-acquires-startups-working-on-animation-and-marketing-g726y7ypt) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Meta planning layoffs that could hit 20% of workforce](https://daily.dev/posts/meta-planning-layoffs-that-could-hit-20-of-workforce-5bm5ymag5) · TechCentral · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/canva-lays-off-over-1-200-people-amid-slowing-growth-mtagxfyfc) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Canva lays off over 1,200 people amid slowing growth","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/canva-lays-off-over-1-200-people-amid-slowing-growth-mtagxfyfc","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/canva-lays-off-over-1-200-people-amid-slowing-growth-mtagxfyfc"},"datePublished":"2026-11-04T12:02:32.309Z","dateModified":"2026-11-06T08:17:46.613Z","description":"Canva is cutting 22% of its staff, about 1,271 people, as growth slows for the first time in a decade. 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