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Design tool cited as an asset source for Composer's creative and design agent.
The presentation startup's numbers, as told to The Next Web, undercut the assumption that AI application companies have to burn cash to grow. The multiple investors paid still assumes growth.
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SaaStr says it dropped Canva and Notion without running a comparison, because its agents built an ad creative operation without either product coming up. That is a harder loss to win back.
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Two separate valuers cut Canva the same way after a third came off its growth forecast. The stated cause was compute cost the company could not pass on to customers.
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Coatue's round values the company at roughly 27 times a self-reported $7 billion run rate, about what December's round paid. What changed is that the acceleration has stopped.
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The co-CEO says every employee had to be running teams of agents by the end of June. The $1.5B revenue base is what pays for that retraining, and what is exposed if it fails.
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