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Leonardo.Ai

Application

AI image and video generation platform for creators and enterprises, acquired by Canva in 2024 but run independently on its own domain and pricing.

Subsidiary of Canva

Total funding$31M

Valuation—

Employees120

Founded2022

HeadquartersSydney, Australia

StatusAcquired

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Leonardo AI Application Sold on its own

  AI image and video generation platform: text-to-image, image-to-image and image-to-video, with in-house models (Lucid Origin, Lucid Realism, Phoenix) alongside third-party models (Motion, Hailuo, Wan), plus a real-time canvas editor and a pay-as-you-go developer API.

• Leonardo.Ai API API service Sold on its own

  Developer API for Leonardo's image and video generation models, billed via the same token system as the consumer app, with a free tier and self-serve API-key signup.

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Sources

Total funding

News reporting · 6 Dec 2023

TechCrunch, 2023-12-06: Leonardo.Ai 'announced a $31 million USD round', reported as a Series A led by Blackbird Ventures, AirTree and others. Third-party fundraising trackers describe this as a combined seed-and-Series-A round rather than a discrete follow-on seed; no separate prior round was found in a fetchable primary or news source, so $31M is recorded as the total rather than as one of two rounds.

Valuation

Checked — none published

No independent valuation or acquisition price was ever disclosed. BusinessWire's and Stack Capital Group's own press releases on the Canva deal (2024-07-30) and VentureBeat's and Capital Brief's coverage of it all state the financial terms were not released.

Employees

News reporting · 30 Jul 2024

VentureBeat, 2024-07-30, on the Canva acquisition: "Leonardo's entire 120-strong workforce, including AI researchers and the executive team, will join its AI team." Headcount as of the acquisition announcement; no more recent figure found.

Founded

News reporting · 6 Dec 2023

TechCrunch, 2023-12-06: 'Founded last year' (i.e. 2022), reporting from Sydney. Exact month not stated by this source; Wikipedia's infobox (not itself sufficient for a figure) names December 2022, consistent with 'last year' relative to this article's date.

Status

News reporting · 29 Jul 2024

TechCrunch: "Canva has acquired Leonardo.ai, a generative AI content and research startup." Matches the Langfuse/Weights & Biases convention: kept as its own record (still ships under its own brand and domain), status acquired. The subsidiary_of relation to Canva already exists in relations.json.

Description

Press release · 30 Jul 2024

Stack Capital Group (a Leonardo.Ai shareholder) press release on the Canva deal, 2024-07-30: 'Leonardo will continue to run independently of Canva with a focus on rapid innovation, research, and development.' Corroborated by VentureBeat's coverage the same day, which quotes Canva co-founder Cameron Adams and states the deal's financial terms were undisclosed. Recorded under the subsidiary rule (the same shape as the G42 five and Launchpad under Pega): separately branded, separately domained (leonardo.ai), continuing to sell its own plans rather than folding into canva.com.

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